Exclusive: Nick and Jon Hamm’s Free Turn Entertainment has appointed streaming industry veteran Ron Downey as its Chairman.
Downey, the co-founder of streaming technology provider Massive Interactive, joins soon after Free Turn completed a round of investment that’s already allowed it to scale its TV and film development plans and add The Story Lab’s Robbie Ashcroft and Emma Lamont to its ranks.
Free Turn expects Downey to give it experience in fundraising, entertainment technology and distribution, plus know-how in growing businesses.
Downey sold Massive Interactive to Deltatre for $127M in 2018. He had co-founded the business in Sydney, Australia 23 years before and built it into a digital development agency that created content and software technology for brands such as AT&T, Dazn, WWE, Sony, Bell Media and all of the UK’s terrestrial networks.
“I’m here to help build a powerhouse of creativity with the Free Turn team...
Downey, the co-founder of streaming technology provider Massive Interactive, joins soon after Free Turn completed a round of investment that’s already allowed it to scale its TV and film development plans and add The Story Lab’s Robbie Ashcroft and Emma Lamont to its ranks.
Free Turn expects Downey to give it experience in fundraising, entertainment technology and distribution, plus know-how in growing businesses.
Downey sold Massive Interactive to Deltatre for $127M in 2018. He had co-founded the business in Sydney, Australia 23 years before and built it into a digital development agency that created content and software technology for brands such as AT&T, Dazn, WWE, Sony, Bell Media and all of the UK’s terrestrial networks.
“I’m here to help build a powerhouse of creativity with the Free Turn team...
- 3/15/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: 47 Meters Down collaborators are merging to launch London-based The Fyzz Facility Pictures.
UK financier-producer The Fyzz Facility has closed a deal with The Tea Shop & Film Company producers Mark Lane and James Harris to launch The Fyzz Facility Pictures.
Tea Shop owners Lane and Harris have been appointed directors of The Fyzz Facility Pictures alongside The Fyzz Facility co-founders Wayne Marc Godfrey and Robert Jones.
The two companies have worked together on three films in the last 18 months including upcoming thriller 47 Meters Down, which is due for release later this year through TWC in North America and eOne in the UK.
The new outfit will focus on developing existing and new IP and has a plan to produce three to five features and TV productions each year.
The Usual Suspects producer Jones launched The Fyzz Facility with producer Godfrey five years ago since when the outfit has helped finance a host of large-scale titles including [link=nm...
UK financier-producer The Fyzz Facility has closed a deal with The Tea Shop & Film Company producers Mark Lane and James Harris to launch The Fyzz Facility Pictures.
Tea Shop owners Lane and Harris have been appointed directors of The Fyzz Facility Pictures alongside The Fyzz Facility co-founders Wayne Marc Godfrey and Robert Jones.
The two companies have worked together on three films in the last 18 months including upcoming thriller 47 Meters Down, which is due for release later this year through TWC in North America and eOne in the UK.
The new outfit will focus on developing existing and new IP and has a plan to produce three to five features and TV productions each year.
The Usual Suspects producer Jones launched The Fyzz Facility with producer Godfrey five years ago since when the outfit has helped finance a host of large-scale titles including [link=nm...
- 5/9/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Shoot underway on thriller backed by The Fyzz Facility.
Filming is underway in London on illegal bike-racing thriller Alleycats, backed by The Fyzz Facility.
Screen Stars of Tomorrow Eleanor Tomlinson (Poldark) and Sam Keeley (What Richard Did) star alongside John Hannah (Four Weddings and a Funeral), John Lynch (The Fall), Rizzle Kicks singer Jordan Stephens, Camilla Rutherford (Gosford Park), Virgile Bramly (Point Blank) and Josh Whitehouse (Northern Soul).
The Fyzz Facility and Elephant Gun Films have backed the debut feature from director Ian Bonhôte, a thriller set in the world of illegal bike racing in London.
Andy Ryder produces, writers are Simon Uttley, Max Kinnings and Anthea Anka. Casting director is former Screen Star of Tomorrow Rose Wicksteed.
Co-producer is Emma Lamont (Shelby) and executive producers are Robert Jones (The Usual Suspects), Wayne Marc Godfrey (Cake), and David Gilbery (War Pigs).
The production also raised money through a Kickstarter campaign.
The film charts...
Filming is underway in London on illegal bike-racing thriller Alleycats, backed by The Fyzz Facility.
Screen Stars of Tomorrow Eleanor Tomlinson (Poldark) and Sam Keeley (What Richard Did) star alongside John Hannah (Four Weddings and a Funeral), John Lynch (The Fall), Rizzle Kicks singer Jordan Stephens, Camilla Rutherford (Gosford Park), Virgile Bramly (Point Blank) and Josh Whitehouse (Northern Soul).
The Fyzz Facility and Elephant Gun Films have backed the debut feature from director Ian Bonhôte, a thriller set in the world of illegal bike racing in London.
Andy Ryder produces, writers are Simon Uttley, Max Kinnings and Anthea Anka. Casting director is former Screen Star of Tomorrow Rose Wicksteed.
Co-producer is Emma Lamont (Shelby) and executive producers are Robert Jones (The Usual Suspects), Wayne Marc Godfrey (Cake), and David Gilbery (War Pigs).
The production also raised money through a Kickstarter campaign.
The film charts...
- 3/23/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
From horror in the Americas to FrightFest’s foray into spatial horror with Luke Hyams’ moorish horror X Moor and Adam Spinks’ Amazonian adventure Extinction/The Expedition. From hunting a fabled beast on the moors to being the hunted in the jungle, these two British films took the FrightFest audience from open to dense terrain for two different kinds of hunts.
In a three part interview feature we spoke with X Moor’s lead actors Mark Bonnar, Melia Kreiling and Nick Blood as well as director Luke Hyams, along with the writer and star of Extinction/The Expedition Ben Loyd-Holmes on being the hunter versus the hunted in beastial horror.
Luke Hyams continues the feature as he reflects on the cold harsh reality of helming a film on the moors of Northern Ireland, as well as making a path for oneself to cross the landscape of British film.
Why a career in filmmaking?...
In a three part interview feature we spoke with X Moor’s lead actors Mark Bonnar, Melia Kreiling and Nick Blood as well as director Luke Hyams, along with the writer and star of Extinction/The Expedition Ben Loyd-Holmes on being the hunter versus the hunted in beastial horror.
Luke Hyams continues the feature as he reflects on the cold harsh reality of helming a film on the moors of Northern Ireland, as well as making a path for oneself to cross the landscape of British film.
Why a career in filmmaking?...
- 8/28/2014
- by Paul Risker
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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