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Lionsgate Studios in Yonkers is set to cut the ribbon formally next month on a project announced in 2019 and delayed by Covid that, when finished, will be one of the largest modern-built production campuses in the Northeast. It’s not technically in New York City but only a half hour away and, along with planned…

Antonia Campbell-Hughes thriller gets sales deal EXCLUSIVE: For the Cannes virtual market, Great Point has boarded world sales on thriller Black Medicine starring Antonia Campbell-Hughes (3096 Days), Orla Brady (American Horror Story), Amybeth McNulty (Anne With An E) and John Connors (Cardboard Gangsters). Signature…

George Clooney Joins LFF Lineup The BFI London Film Festival has added a virtual Screen Talk with George Clooney who will discuss his career and latest feature The Midnight Sky. The event will be free to access both in the UK and internationally via the BFI YouTube channel. Clooney directs and stars in The Midnight Sky…

Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment's subsidiary Screen Media Ventures is teaming with UK outfit Great Point Media on a film acquisition facility that the companies say will be initially funded to $10M. Great Point is providing 100% of the funds and Chicken Soup's chief exec William J. Rouhana Jr said the deal…

Great Point Capital Management, the UK-based, media-focused investment fund run by Robert Halmi and Fehmi Zeko, plans to build a $50 million-plus film and television studio complex in Buffalo, NY. The firm earlier this year signed a deal with Rich Holdings to buy a site where two 20,000-square-foot stages and another…

Former Darlow Smithson Productions MD Emily Dalton and writer-producer Tom Dalton are launching UK indie Factual Fiction with backing from financier Great Point Media. The Yorkshire-based husband and wife duo will focus on drama, documentary and specialist factual after having previously collaborated on three Agatha…

UK producers Stephen McCrum (Mrs Brown’s Boys) and Simon Mayhew-Archer (This Country) are launching UK film and TV comedy outfit Camden Productions with backing from UK financier Great Point, we can reveal. The duo most recently produced Daisy May Cooper and Charlie Cooper's hit BBC series This Country, which recorded…

Lionsgate, media firm Great Point Capital Management and real estate company National Resources have secured a $40M loan from CIT Bank to complete the financing for their film and TV studio complex at i.Park Hudson in Yonkers, New York. The loan is said to be the last step before construction begins on the…

Great Point Media, the UK finance, production and sales outfit, has named Toby Melling as Vice President of Television Sales. In his new role, he will be responsible for licensing GPM's film and television product internationally. Melling joins from eOne, where he managed content sales into French-speaking…

UK sales and finance outfit Great Point Media has partnered with U.S. fund manager MC Credit Partners on a new initiative to finance film and TV projects. According to the two firms, funds managed by MCCP will invest up to $100M in the partnership and Great Point has already committed a minimum of $80M. The commitment…

EXCLUSIVE: Haifaa Al-Mansour, whose The Perfect Candidate bowed in Competition at Venice this year, has signed to direct Let It Go, a biopic of pioneering Brit technology entrepreneur Dame Stephanie Shirley. The English-language project will track the life of Shirley, who arrived in the UK in 1939 as a six-year-old…

EXCLUSIVE: We can reveal a first look at Peaky Blinders actress Sophie Rundle in Rose, a feature horror pic that sales outfit Great Point Media will be debuting first footage from at AFM. The debut feature from director Jennifer Sheridan stars Rundle with Matt Stokoe (Jamestown) in the story of a woman who, gripped by…