Exclusive: Tech entrepreneur and producer Oleg Shardin, best known as the co-founder of digital whiteboard company Miro, and actor-producer Alex Lane have partnered to create multimedia production company Puma In A Tank.
The new banner will specialize in low to mid-level budget elevated thriller films and TV shows focusing on international components and socially relevant themes.
The company has already raised financing to co-fund a slate of films and TV shows and will seek strategic partnerships on a project-per-project basis.
Partners include venture capitalist Joachim Laqueur, M&a and business strategy expert Vasiliy Lantsov and corporate finance professional Igor Shardin.
First projects include female-driven thriller feature film Speak Up, directed by award-winning Irish filmmaker Rioghnach Ni Ghrioghair (Balor Hall); American dramedy TV series Driver A.D., based on the international bestseller Driving The Saudis by Jayne Amelia Larson, who also co-created the series, as well as female-driven futuristic thriller A Better Place.
The new banner will specialize in low to mid-level budget elevated thriller films and TV shows focusing on international components and socially relevant themes.
The company has already raised financing to co-fund a slate of films and TV shows and will seek strategic partnerships on a project-per-project basis.
Partners include venture capitalist Joachim Laqueur, M&a and business strategy expert Vasiliy Lantsov and corporate finance professional Igor Shardin.
First projects include female-driven thriller feature film Speak Up, directed by award-winning Irish filmmaker Rioghnach Ni Ghrioghair (Balor Hall); American dramedy TV series Driver A.D., based on the international bestseller Driving The Saudis by Jayne Amelia Larson, who also co-created the series, as well as female-driven futuristic thriller A Better Place.
- 11/8/2023
- by Jesse Whittock and Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: UTA has signed Scottish writer/director David Mackenzie, whose latest film Starred Up premiered at Telluride and Toronto. He had been with Wme. Starred Up stars Jack O’Connell and Ben Mendelsohn and is about a juvenile offender so troubled and violent that he gets “starred up” to the adult prison system of England, where his estranged and equally violent father awaits him. The film makes its European debut at the London Film Festival October 10. Mackenzie previusly helmed Young Adam, Perfect Sense and Mister Foe. All those films and Starred Up were produced by Mackenzie and producing partner Gillian Berrie’s Sigma Films. Sean Gascoine of United Agents continues to rep him in the UK.
- 9/20/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Exclusive: The London-based producer has started talking to Hollywood agents about directors for Exit Point, a Base jumping action thriller written by Tom Williams (Chalet Girl) and award-winning Sunday Times journalist Ed Caesar. Constance Media hopes to shoot summer 2011 in the UK, France, Norway and United Arab Emirates. Naghdi is pitching this heist movie as “Man On Wire meets Point Break.” Base jumping is the extreme sport of jumping off a skyscraper wearing a parachute. Caesar’s original Sunday Times Magazine article told how two men broke into the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, and base-jumped 155 floors down. Williams and Caesar are repped by Sean Gascoine at United Agents. Naghdi tells me: “Nobody’s done a Base jumping thriller before. When the Europeans do thrillers properly, we do them really well.” Naghdi used to be an entertainment lawyer at City law firm Bird & Bird, where his clients included Woody Allen.
- 8/6/2010
- by TIM ADLER
- Deadline London
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