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Indigenous’ 60 Second Docs, the digital network that counts more than 600 documentaries and 8 million worldwide subscribers, has launched “60 Second Docs Official Selection,” a new vertical for which it will acquire and distribute a curated selection of short documentaries, ranging from 3 to 30 minutes in length, that…

Another feature trilogy, The Rogue Warfare Trilogy, financed by Ingenious and sold worldwide by Highland Film Group and 5150 Action Productions is in the midst of production, with stunt coordinator turned director Mike Gunther filming all three movies at the same time. Will Yun Lee is headlining what is a…

British film and TV investor Ingenious Media has tapped Warner Bros exec Will Harrison to become its new Managing Director. Harrison was previously COO for Warner Bros' Harry Potter franchise and oversaw the commercial expansion of JK Rowling's brand including the prequel Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them. He…

EXCLUSIVE: Steve Shill, who won a directing Emmy for his work on Season 4 finale of Dexter, has been tapped to direct the epic series All the Queen’s Men from a script written by Stewart Harcourt (Churchill’s Secret, Dexter). The series, which is being developed for Tayox TV and Ingenious Media, is based on historical…

The deals keep flowing out of China. UK financier Ingenious Media (Brooklyn) today announced it has inked a $200 million deal with China’s Hejing Culture to co-finance a slate of indie films. Ingenious, which also co-financed Cate Blanchett-Rooney Mara love story Carol, made the announcement during the Shanghai Film…

Fox Searchlight has tapped Katie Goodson-Thomas as director of productions and acquisitions of its UK operations. The exec, who was most recently at film financier Ingenious, will report to Fox Searchlight Pictures president of production Claudia Lewis. Goodson-Thomas will also work closely with director of production…

Are high-net-worth individuals involved in British film finance schemes secretly stashing money offshore? Revenue & Customs, the UK equivalent of the IRS, believes that “billions of pounds in tax revenue have been lost” as tax breaks are sold to wealthy investors enabling them to avoid or defer tax, according to an…

EXCLUSIVE: Ingenious, the UK private-equity fund that backed Avatar, has poached Lucas Webb, The Weinstein Company's man in London, to run its Fox Searchlight arm. The financier announced in January that it was going to make between two and three Fox Searchlight movies each year in the $10M-15M range, injecting up to…

London-based Ingenious Media, the private equity fund which backed Twentieth Century Fox’s Avatar, has struck a deal with Fox Searchlight to make between 2 to 3 movies in the $10M-15M range. Ingenious could inject up to $14 million annually into the deal, providing 20%-30% equity per movie. Fox Searchlight will…

Eric Fellner, co-chairman of Working Title, is backing a new online game being created by the UK producers of Kate Modern. The game, which will launch in November, claims to blur the lines between film and gaming. Tom Thirlwall, co-founder of We R Interactive, tells me: "We're bringing together the worlds of the…

Kip Meek, head of Ingenious Media's consulting arm, is set to be named chairman of Project Canvas later this week, according to the Guardian. Project Canvas is the groundbreaking TV service that's being launched by the UK's terrestrial broadcasters. Canvas declined to comment. Meek is seen as a good choice, having…

EXCLUSIVE: The sales agent has closed a multi-million dollar facility it wants to use for bigger films. Protagonist can use the money for either minimum guarantees or development funding. It's already eyeing one ambitious yet-to-be-announced Film4 project. Protagonist was set up in January 2008 to sell films backed by…