EXCLUSIVE: In competitive bidding, Entertainment 360 — the television studio formed by Management 360 and MRC — acquired film and television rights to Sanctuary. The novel by V.V. James — author of the Gilded Cage fantasy trilogy — will be published by Orion on August 8, 2019. Entertainment 360 will executive produce…

Elizabeth and Suffragette producer Alison Owen has lifted the lid on working with Harvey Weinstein — highlighting the problems with challenging the disgraced movie mogul over rumors of his behavior. Former Working Title exec Owen, who worked with Weinstein on five films during his days running Miramax and The…

Last year, all it took was a hashtag, #OscarsSoWhite, to re-energize an important conversation. Twelve months later, Moonlight director Barry Jenkins made history by becoming the first African-American filmmaker to be nominated for Best Director, Picture and Screenplay at the Academy Awards. And, as everyone knows…

EXCLUSIVE: Alison Owen and Debra Hayward's Monumental Pictures is set to bring the landmark decision of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. abortion ruling that paved the way for women to have safe and legal abortions, to the big screen. They've tapped writer Jennifer Majka, who co-wrote BAFTA-winning and Oscar-nominated short…

EXCLUSIVE: Jackie Collins’ 10-novel series based based around mob daughter Lucky Santangelo is headed for the big screen. Universal Pictures has acquired the book series, which will be produced by Monumental Pictures partners Debra Hayward & Alison Owen, and Working Title partners Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner. Moira…

Alison Owen and Debra Hayward's Monumental Pictures is set to make a big screen biopic about Victorian mathematician and computer science visionary Ada Lovelace. Development is being supported by Google and the National Academy of Sciences' program, The Science and Entertainment Exchange. Shawn Slovo, who wrote…

EXCLUSIVE: Samantha Morton (The Last Panthers), Jessica Brown Findlay (Downton Abbey) and Lesley Manville (Malificent) have been set to star in Harlots, a co-production between Hulu and ITV. The eight-part drama is getting a straight-to-series order. Harlots will air on ITV Encore in the UK and stream exclusively in…

EXCLUSIVE: Emma Donoghue, the writer of both the novel and screenplay of Lenny Abrahamson’s Oscar-nominated Room, is teaming up with Alison Owen’s and Debra Hayward’s Monumental Pictures to make a feature adaptation of her novel Frog Music. Donoghue, who adapted Room and received an Academy Award nomination yesterday…

Building on the corporation’s aggressive acquisitions spree, ITV unit ITV Studios Global Entertainment has taken a minority stake in Alison Owen and Debra Hayward’s Monumental Television. The indie was founded by the Oscar nominated producers as Monumental Pictures last September. The new agreement will see ITVSGE…

Monumental Pictures, the film and TV production shingle hung by Alison Owen and Debra Hayward in September, has acquired screen rights to How To Build A Girl, the bestseller written by Caitlin Moran. The fourth book by broadcaster, TV critic and Times columnist Moran was published in the UK by Ebury Press in July and…

Prolific UK-based producers Alison Owen and Debra Hayward have joined forces to launch Monumental Pictures. The new production outfit will focus on both film and TV content with the aim to “keep the costs small, but the vision big,” says Saving Mr Banks producer Owen. Long-time friends and colleagues, the pair last…

Along with Saving Mr Banks, which closes the London Film Festival on Sunday night in its world premiere, producer Alison Owen‘s credits include a lot of movies with women’s names in the title. They range from Temple Grandin to Elizabeth, Sylvia, Tamara Drewe and Jane Eyre. Many of those, Owen said in a keynote address…