Exclusive: Erik Barmack’s Wild Sheep Content has boarded Synchronicity Films and Mr. B Films’ feature Kill, which has entered principal photography.
Former Netflix International senior exec Barmack, who launched Wild Sheep two years ago, described Kill as “uniquely international, genre, and big in scope,” stating it will “deliver for all partners.” The feature, the debut film from director Rodger Griffiths, is the second Synchronicity project that Wild Sheep has partnered on, following YA TV series One More Kill from Sugar Rush’s Holly Phillips.
Meanwhile, Deadline can reveal that CAA Media Finance is handling worldwide sales for Kill and Library Pictures International and Great Point Media have also boarded the project, which is supported by Screen Scotland and Northern Ireland Screen.
The thriller explores the sins of a father, Don, and the revenge of his three sons, who are out to avenge their mothers’ murder and put an end...
Former Netflix International senior exec Barmack, who launched Wild Sheep two years ago, described Kill as “uniquely international, genre, and big in scope,” stating it will “deliver for all partners.” The feature, the debut film from director Rodger Griffiths, is the second Synchronicity project that Wild Sheep has partnered on, following YA TV series One More Kill from Sugar Rush’s Holly Phillips.
Meanwhile, Deadline can reveal that CAA Media Finance is handling worldwide sales for Kill and Library Pictures International and Great Point Media have also boarded the project, which is supported by Screen Scotland and Northern Ireland Screen.
The thriller explores the sins of a father, Don, and the revenge of his three sons, who are out to avenge their mothers’ murder and put an end...
- 6/6/2022
- by Max Goldbart and Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Mark Lawrence’s fantasy novel trilogy One Word Kill is the latest YA book series to be adapted for television.
Holly Phillips, who created and served as showrunner for BBC/Netflix teen series Get Even, is adapting the books for The Cry producer Synchronicity Films and Wild Sheep, the production company set up by former Netflix exec Erik Barmack.
The two companies will co-produce the adaptation.
One Word Kill, otherwise known as Impossible Times, was first published in May 2019 followed by Limited Wish and Dispel Illusion later that year.
The books have been described as Ready Player One meets Stranger Things and Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin said that he “enjoyed the hell out of One Word Kill”.
One Word Kill begins when fifteen-year-old boy-genius Nick Hayes discovers he’s dying. And it isn’t even the strangest thing to happen to him that week. Nick and...
Holly Phillips, who created and served as showrunner for BBC/Netflix teen series Get Even, is adapting the books for The Cry producer Synchronicity Films and Wild Sheep, the production company set up by former Netflix exec Erik Barmack.
The two companies will co-produce the adaptation.
One Word Kill, otherwise known as Impossible Times, was first published in May 2019 followed by Limited Wish and Dispel Illusion later that year.
The books have been described as Ready Player One meets Stranger Things and Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin said that he “enjoyed the hell out of One Word Kill”.
One Word Kill begins when fifteen-year-old boy-genius Nick Hayes discovers he’s dying. And it isn’t even the strangest thing to happen to him that week. Nick and...
- 8/3/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
The teen genre is a TV mainstay, but it often doesn’t get as much love in the streaming era. Shows that thrived in that heady time when the decline of network TV and the rise of Twitter culture met somewhere in the middle—the Gossip Girl and Pretty Little Liars of the world—ruled, but don’t have quite the same cultural cache now. But that doesn’t mean we don’t still love them. So, when Get Even, a British teen thriller about four girls at an elite boarding school who start a “getting even” club, dropped on Netflix, we took notice.
The series premiered on the BBC iPlayer back in February, but only just became available to American viewers today, dropping in its entirety on Netflix. It is a British series from Holly Phillips based on the “Don’t Get Made” book series by American author Gretchen McNeil.
The series premiered on the BBC iPlayer back in February, but only just became available to American viewers today, dropping in its entirety on Netflix. It is a British series from Holly Phillips based on the “Don’t Get Made” book series by American author Gretchen McNeil.
- 7/31/2020
- by Kayti Burt
- Den of Geek
Timothy Williams.
When Timothy Williams graduated from the Vca with a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing in 2014, he set his sights on writing TV dramas.
After spending several years as a part-time scripted development assistant for Matchbox Pictures, he got his chance on the second season of the ABC’s The Heights, produced by Matchbox and For Pete’s Sake Productions’ Peta Astbury-Bulsara.
Williams joined the emerging writers’ room after being part of the observer program, which involved the participants writing scenes for the first season of the show co-created by Warren Clarke and Que Minh Luu.
The fact that he was born with Spina Bifida, a condition that affects the spinal cord and his mobility, made him well qualified to write scenes for Sabine, the character played by Bridie McKim, who has cerebral palsy.
“Tim brought a unique insight and lived experience to our writers’ room which has enriched many of our storylines,...
When Timothy Williams graduated from the Vca with a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing in 2014, he set his sights on writing TV dramas.
After spending several years as a part-time scripted development assistant for Matchbox Pictures, he got his chance on the second season of the ABC’s The Heights, produced by Matchbox and For Pete’s Sake Productions’ Peta Astbury-Bulsara.
Williams joined the emerging writers’ room after being part of the observer program, which involved the participants writing scenes for the first season of the show co-created by Warren Clarke and Que Minh Luu.
The fact that he was born with Spina Bifida, a condition that affects the spinal cord and his mobility, made him well qualified to write scenes for Sabine, the character played by Bridie McKim, who has cerebral palsy.
“Tim brought a unique insight and lived experience to our writers’ room which has enriched many of our storylines,...
- 9/2/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Holly Phillips.
Screenworks and Matchbox Pictures today announced the five early-career writers who will work alongside UK creator/writer Holly Phillips and other consultants in a script development lab this month.
Supported by Screen Australia’s Enterprise Industry program and Create Nsw’s early development funding, the script development workshop will take place in Lismore in regional Nsw from November 12–16.
The aimn is to develop Best Medicine, an original concept for a TV series by Tim Williams about an an out-of-work actor who performs as a clown doctor in a teenage cancer ward and finds his life takes on unexpected new meaning through a ward of complex patients.
The writers selected by Matchbox Pictures are Sue McPherson from Eumundi, Queensland, Jane Hampson, Northern Territory, Meg Courtney-Hawke, Campbells Creek, Victoria, Tristan Bancks, Bangalow, Nsw and Charlotte Brookes, Lismore.
Screen Australia head of development Nerida Moore said: “This is a fantastic opportunity...
Screenworks and Matchbox Pictures today announced the five early-career writers who will work alongside UK creator/writer Holly Phillips and other consultants in a script development lab this month.
Supported by Screen Australia’s Enterprise Industry program and Create Nsw’s early development funding, the script development workshop will take place in Lismore in regional Nsw from November 12–16.
The aimn is to develop Best Medicine, an original concept for a TV series by Tim Williams about an an out-of-work actor who performs as a clown doctor in a teenage cancer ward and finds his life takes on unexpected new meaning through a ward of complex patients.
The writers selected by Matchbox Pictures are Sue McPherson from Eumundi, Queensland, Jane Hampson, Northern Territory, Meg Courtney-Hawke, Campbells Creek, Victoria, Tristan Bancks, Bangalow, Nsw and Charlotte Brookes, Lismore.
Screen Australia head of development Nerida Moore said: “This is a fantastic opportunity...
- 11/2/2018
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Holly Phillips.
Five early-career writers in regional, rural or remote Australia who are keen to write for television are being offered places in a five-day script lab staged by Screenworks and Matchbox Pictures.
The lab will be held in Lismore from November 12 – 16, led by UK writer Holly Phillips and the script development team from Matchbox Pictures.
The aim is to develop Best Medicine, an original concept for a TV series written by Tim Williams, which revolves around an out-of-work actor who performs as a clown doctor in a teenage cancer ward. His life takes on unexpected new meaning as a result of his time spent with a ward full of complex patients.
Applicants must be able to demonstrate some experience in script writing and live in regional, rural or remote Australia. Travel to Lismore and accommodation expenses will be covered by Screenworks.
Screenworks CEO Ken Crouch said: “As the regional film office,...
Five early-career writers in regional, rural or remote Australia who are keen to write for television are being offered places in a five-day script lab staged by Screenworks and Matchbox Pictures.
The lab will be held in Lismore from November 12 – 16, led by UK writer Holly Phillips and the script development team from Matchbox Pictures.
The aim is to develop Best Medicine, an original concept for a TV series written by Tim Williams, which revolves around an out-of-work actor who performs as a clown doctor in a teenage cancer ward. His life takes on unexpected new meaning as a result of his time spent with a ward full of complex patients.
Applicants must be able to demonstrate some experience in script writing and live in regional, rural or remote Australia. Travel to Lismore and accommodation expenses will be covered by Screenworks.
Screenworks CEO Ken Crouch said: “As the regional film office,...
- 10/4/2018
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
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