Harrison joins from Warner Bros.
Investment outfit Ingenious has tapped Will Harrison as managing director of Ingenious Media.
Harrison joins from Warner Bros where he oversaw the commercial growth of the company’s Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts brands. Prior to then, he held positions at HBO Europe and Disney.
Will joins the Ingenious board and reports to Neil Forster, CEO of the Ingenious Group, who is overseeing Ingenious’ expansion into new markets across the group’s four areas of specialisation: media, infrastructure, real estate and education.
Harrison’s hire follows a string of new appointments at Ingenious over the last few months.
Investment outfit Ingenious has tapped Will Harrison as managing director of Ingenious Media.
Harrison joins from Warner Bros where he oversaw the commercial growth of the company’s Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts brands. Prior to then, he held positions at HBO Europe and Disney.
Will joins the Ingenious board and reports to Neil Forster, CEO of the Ingenious Group, who is overseeing Ingenious’ expansion into new markets across the group’s four areas of specialisation: media, infrastructure, real estate and education.
Harrison’s hire follows a string of new appointments at Ingenious over the last few months.
- 5/8/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Ingenious has appointed former Warner Bros. executive Will Harrison as the new managing director of its media investment arm, Ingenious Media.
Harrison is the latest senior hire by Ingenious, the independent British investor in the creative industries, as the company seeks to expand its media business. Harrison will report to Ingenious Group CEO Neil Forster, who is spearheading the company’s expansion into new markets focused on four areas: media, infrastructure, real estate and education. Harrison will also join Ingenious’ board.
At Warner Bros., Harrison served as chief commercial officer for the Harry Potter franchise, leading the development and commercial growth of the brand and its prequel spinoff “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.” He previously served as COO at HBO Europe and spent five years heading the Ventures and Business Development team for The Walt Disney Co. across Europe, Middle East and Africa.
“Will brings over 20 years’ experience...
Harrison is the latest senior hire by Ingenious, the independent British investor in the creative industries, as the company seeks to expand its media business. Harrison will report to Ingenious Group CEO Neil Forster, who is spearheading the company’s expansion into new markets focused on four areas: media, infrastructure, real estate and education. Harrison will also join Ingenious’ board.
At Warner Bros., Harrison served as chief commercial officer for the Harry Potter franchise, leading the development and commercial growth of the brand and its prequel spinoff “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.” He previously served as COO at HBO Europe and spent five years heading the Ventures and Business Development team for The Walt Disney Co. across Europe, Middle East and Africa.
“Will brings over 20 years’ experience...
- 5/8/2018
- by Robert Mitchell
- Variety Film + TV
A total of 15 European documentaries selected for European Film Awards 2015.
The European Film Academy and Efa Productions have announced the first ever Efa Documentary Selection, a list of 15 European documentaries recommended for a nomination for this year’s European Film Awards.
The change follows a decision by the Efa Board to “acknowledge the growing importance of European documentary cinema”.
The titles include Asif Kapadia’s Amy Winehouse documentary, Amy, which has broken box office records in the UK and Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look Of Silence, a follow-up to award-winning The Act Of Killing.
A further development is the involvement of 10 documentary festivals that recommended to the committee up to three films each which have had their world premiere at the respective festival’s latest edition. Chosen in co-operation with the European Documentary Network Edn, these festivals are:
Idfa (the Netherlands)Cph:dox (Denmark)Visions du Réel (Switzerland)DokLeipzig (Germany)Docslisboa (Portugal)Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival (Greece)Jihlava...
The European Film Academy and Efa Productions have announced the first ever Efa Documentary Selection, a list of 15 European documentaries recommended for a nomination for this year’s European Film Awards.
The change follows a decision by the Efa Board to “acknowledge the growing importance of European documentary cinema”.
The titles include Asif Kapadia’s Amy Winehouse documentary, Amy, which has broken box office records in the UK and Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look Of Silence, a follow-up to award-winning The Act Of Killing.
A further development is the involvement of 10 documentary festivals that recommended to the committee up to three films each which have had their world premiere at the respective festival’s latest edition. Chosen in co-operation with the European Documentary Network Edn, these festivals are:
Idfa (the Netherlands)Cph:dox (Denmark)Visions du Réel (Switzerland)DokLeipzig (Germany)Docslisboa (Portugal)Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival (Greece)Jihlava...
- 9/16/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Completion guarantor has six films at Toronto including Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise.
European Film Bonds has revealed the company has now bonded more than €1bn ($1.1bn) of production finance.
The completion guarantor, which has its head office in Denmark and has been in operation for seven years, has six films screening at the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 10-20).
These include premieres for Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise, Matt Brown’s The Man Who Knew Infinity, Alexandra Keining’s Girls Lost, The Salvation director Anders Thomas Jensen’s latest Men & Chicken, and Catherine Hardwicke’s Miss You Already.
Other recent titles include Cannes competition entry Louder than Bombs from director Joachim Trier and awards season candidate Sarah Gavron’s Suffragette, which received its world premiere at Telluride 2015 and is released on Oct 23 in the Us through Focus Features.
Efb has recently expanded its operations working in Australia and China as well as securing a long-standing relationship with South...
European Film Bonds has revealed the company has now bonded more than €1bn ($1.1bn) of production finance.
The completion guarantor, which has its head office in Denmark and has been in operation for seven years, has six films screening at the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 10-20).
These include premieres for Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise, Matt Brown’s The Man Who Knew Infinity, Alexandra Keining’s Girls Lost, The Salvation director Anders Thomas Jensen’s latest Men & Chicken, and Catherine Hardwicke’s Miss You Already.
Other recent titles include Cannes competition entry Louder than Bombs from director Joachim Trier and awards season candidate Sarah Gavron’s Suffragette, which received its world premiere at Telluride 2015 and is released on Oct 23 in the Us through Focus Features.
Efb has recently expanded its operations working in Australia and China as well as securing a long-standing relationship with South...
- 9/13/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Six women have been elected onto the board of the European Film Academy (Efa).
Each board member is elected for a two-year term, with eight of the board up for re-election this time. Re-elected were two female members, Dagmar Jacobsen and Rebecca O’Brien. The six new board members are:
Tilde Corsi, Italy, producerIra von Gienanth, Germany, producer/distributorAngeles Gonzáles-Sinde, Spain, screenwriterVanessa Henneman, Netherlands, talent agentAgnès Jaoui, France, director/screenwriter/actressEwa Puszczynska, Poland, producer
They replace Adriana Chiesa di Palma (Italy), Stephan Hutter (Germany), Cedomir Kolar (France), Goran Paskaljevic (Serbia), Antonio Perez Perez (Spain) and Jani Thiltges (Luxembourg).
Efa Board
Chairwoman:
Agnieszka Holland, Poland, director
Deputy Chairmen:
Mike Downey, UK, producer
Antonio Saura, Spain, producer
Board Members:
Roberto Cicutto, Italy, producer
Tilde Corsi, Italy, producer
Helena Danielsson, Sweden, producer
Ira von Gienanth, Germany, producer/distributor
Ilann Girard, France, producer
Angeles Gonzáles-Sinde, Spain, screenwriter
Vanessa Henneman, Netherlands, talent agent
Dagmar Jacobsen, Germany, producer...
Each board member is elected for a two-year term, with eight of the board up for re-election this time. Re-elected were two female members, Dagmar Jacobsen and Rebecca O’Brien. The six new board members are:
Tilde Corsi, Italy, producerIra von Gienanth, Germany, producer/distributorAngeles Gonzáles-Sinde, Spain, screenwriterVanessa Henneman, Netherlands, talent agentAgnès Jaoui, France, director/screenwriter/actressEwa Puszczynska, Poland, producer
They replace Adriana Chiesa di Palma (Italy), Stephan Hutter (Germany), Cedomir Kolar (France), Goran Paskaljevic (Serbia), Antonio Perez Perez (Spain) and Jani Thiltges (Luxembourg).
Efa Board
Chairwoman:
Agnieszka Holland, Poland, director
Deputy Chairmen:
Mike Downey, UK, producer
Antonio Saura, Spain, producer
Board Members:
Roberto Cicutto, Italy, producer
Tilde Corsi, Italy, producer
Helena Danielsson, Sweden, producer
Ira von Gienanth, Germany, producer/distributor
Ilann Girard, France, producer
Angeles Gonzáles-Sinde, Spain, screenwriter
Vanessa Henneman, Netherlands, talent agent
Dagmar Jacobsen, Germany, producer...
- 1/12/2015
- ScreenDaily
A “mental Iron Curtain” has formed between Western and Eastern Europe, according to Polish film director Agnieszka Holland.
In a keynote speech delivered at the From Media to Creative Europe summit in Warsaw, Holland said: “Paradoxically, when Europe was divided, the mutual curiosity and the knowledge of our cultures was much bigger.
“It was then when we could talk genuinely about a European cinema and its wide distribution both in cinemas and on television.
“Today, more than in the times of the Cold War, we are dealing now with a mental - and not a political - Iron Curtain.
“During the last 20 years, one could very distinctly observe the paradox: the more Europe has been working economically and politically, the more its cultural bonds, mutual curiosity and the knowledge that comes from this, mutual concerns about problems, lives and preferences has dissipated.”
Holland expressed concern that more energy was being expended by European film-makers on budgetary issues...
In a keynote speech delivered at the From Media to Creative Europe summit in Warsaw, Holland said: “Paradoxically, when Europe was divided, the mutual curiosity and the knowledge of our cultures was much bigger.
“It was then when we could talk genuinely about a European cinema and its wide distribution both in cinemas and on television.
“Today, more than in the times of the Cold War, we are dealing now with a mental - and not a political - Iron Curtain.
“During the last 20 years, one could very distinctly observe the paradox: the more Europe has been working economically and politically, the more its cultural bonds, mutual curiosity and the knowledge that comes from this, mutual concerns about problems, lives and preferences has dissipated.”
Holland expressed concern that more energy was being expended by European film-makers on budgetary issues...
- 12/13/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
A “mental Iron Curtain” has formed between Western and Eastern Europe, according to Polish film director Agnieszka Holland.
In a keynote speech delivered at the From Media to Creative Europe summit in Warsaw, Holland said: “Paradoxically, when Europe was divided, the mutual curiosity and the knowledge of our cultures was much bigger.
“It was then when we could talk genuinely about a European cinema and its wide distribution both in cinemas and on television.
“Today, more than in the times of the Cold War, we are dealing now with a mental - and not a political - Iron Curtain.
“During the last 20 years, one could very distinctly observe the paradox: the more Europe has been working economically and politically, the more its cultural bonds, mutual curiosity and the knowledge that comes from this, mutual concerns about problems, lives and preferences has dissipated.”
Holland expressed concern that more energy was being expended by European film-makers on budgetary issues...
In a keynote speech delivered at the From Media to Creative Europe summit in Warsaw, Holland said: “Paradoxically, when Europe was divided, the mutual curiosity and the knowledge of our cultures was much bigger.
“It was then when we could talk genuinely about a European cinema and its wide distribution both in cinemas and on television.
“Today, more than in the times of the Cold War, we are dealing now with a mental - and not a political - Iron Curtain.
“During the last 20 years, one could very distinctly observe the paradox: the more Europe has been working economically and politically, the more its cultural bonds, mutual curiosity and the knowledge that comes from this, mutual concerns about problems, lives and preferences has dissipated.”
Holland expressed concern that more energy was being expended by European film-makers on budgetary issues...
- 12/13/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Other winners included Love Is All You Need, The Act of Killing, The Congress and The Broken Circle Breakdown.
Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty was the big winner at the 26th European Film Awards in Berlin, picking up four of the silver statuettes for European Film, European Director, European Actor for Toni Servillo, and European Editor for Cristiano Travaglioli.
The Great Beauty is Italy’s Oscar entry this year and had won the EurAsia Grand Prix at Tallinn’s Black Nights Film Festival a matter of days before the awards ceremony in Berlin.
Sorrentino could not personally accept the two awards as he is serving on the jury at the Marrakech Film festival, but producer Nicola Giuliano brought members of the cast and crew on stage to receive the audience’s applause.
Veteran Italian composer Ennio Morricone received the European Composer statuette for his score of Giuseppe Tornatore’s The Best Offer and was given a standing...
Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty was the big winner at the 26th European Film Awards in Berlin, picking up four of the silver statuettes for European Film, European Director, European Actor for Toni Servillo, and European Editor for Cristiano Travaglioli.
The Great Beauty is Italy’s Oscar entry this year and had won the EurAsia Grand Prix at Tallinn’s Black Nights Film Festival a matter of days before the awards ceremony in Berlin.
Sorrentino could not personally accept the two awards as he is serving on the jury at the Marrakech Film festival, but producer Nicola Giuliano brought members of the cast and crew on stage to receive the audience’s applause.
Veteran Italian composer Ennio Morricone received the European Composer statuette for his score of Giuseppe Tornatore’s The Best Offer and was given a standing...
- 12/8/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Picturehouse and New Line International have acquired rights to Francois Girard's Silk, a world-hopping romantic drama starring an international cast headed by Michael Pitt, Keira Knightley, Koji Yakusho and Alfred Molina. The deal was announced Friday by Picturehouse president Bob Berney; Rolf Mittweg, president and chief operating officer of New Line worldwide distribution and marketing; and Camela Galano, president of New Line International. Based on the novel by Alessandro Baricco, Silk is the story of Herve Joncour, a 19th century French silkworm merchant who travels to Japan, where he begins a forbidden romance. Girard and Michael Golding have adapted the screenplay for the film, to be produced by Niv Fichman, Nadine Luque, Domenico Procacci and Sonoko Sakai.
- 1/20/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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