EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Susco, the writer behind hit thrillers The Grudge and The Grudge 2, has been set to adapt Fiona Cummins' upcoming debut novel Rattle for television. Kris Thykier's Archery Pictures acquired rights to the former Daily Mirror showbiz reporter's first book in 2015, beating off fierce competition after…

The filmmakers for Miss Sloane, a drama thriller set in D.C. against the backdrop of political lobbying over background checks on gun sales, said they struggled with setting the distribution date of the film, given the presidential election. While they thought the subject of background checks on gun sales would be…

EXCLUSIVE: Kris Thykier's Archery Pictures, Iain Softley's Forthcoming Films and Michael Maher's Start Motion Pictures are joining forces to develop Icarus, a feature film about legendary British-American astronaut Mike Foale. K-Pax and The Outcast filmmaker Softley is set to direct the project, which follows the…

EXCLUSIVE: Kris Thykier's Archery Pictures has acquired book and life rights to Four Mums In A Boat, a true story of four working mothers from Yorkshire, England, who battled the Atlantic in the world's toughest row – the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge. The book will be published by HQ, an imprint of HarperCollins…

EXCLUSIVE: Liza Marshall is stepping down from her role at Archery Pictures, the London-based production company she co-founded with Kris Thykier. It's an amicable parting for the well-respected UK producing duo and Marshall will continue her role as exec producer alongside Thykier on Riviera, the Sky Atlantic Cote…

Danish director Kasper Barfoed’s Sommeren 92, about the Danish national football squad’s against-the-odds victory in the 1992 European Championships, has scored with Danish audiences. The UK-Danish co-pro is about to cross 300,000 admissions, repping 5% of the entire population and double the returns of the likes of…

EXCLUSIVE: Roundly praised and highly-anticipated, Danish drama Summer Of 92 is expected to be one of the blockbusters of a year that is already proving strong at the local box office (see trailer below), and is also expected to travel. Released locally today, the movie traces the underdog 1992 Euro Cup team, a…

Asif Kapadia’s ecstatically-reviewed Amy, a powerful tribute to tragic singer Amy Winehouse, has scored the largest ever opening for a British docu at the UK box office with $808,000, making it the second biggest opening weekend ever for a docu in the country after Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11.  Kapadia’s film…

Alex Marshall has been tapped as chief operating officer of Archery Pictures, the film and TV banner launched by producer Kris Thykier and former Scott Free UK head Liza Marshall last year. Marshall leaves Warp Films, where he had been COO since 2008 and exec produced many of their productions including Four Lions as…

EXCLUSIVE– Archery Pictures, the newbie production company set up less than a year ago by well-respected UK-based producers Kris Thykier and Liza Marshall, has come on-board to produce the Cote d’Azur-based TV crime drama Riviera with Neil Jordan (The Borgias) set to write, direct and showrun. The project is the…

The first still for Asif Kapadia’s Ali & Nino has been released. Currently shooting in Azerbaijan, the adaption of the best-selling novel is written by Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons, Atonement) and produced by Kris Thykier (Trash, Woman In Gold). Leyla Aliyeva is on board as exec producer. IM Global will…

Connie Nielsen (Gladiator) has joined the cast of Asif Kapadia’s epic love story Ali & Nino. Deadline previously broke the news that Maria Valverde (Exodus: Of Gods and Kings) and Mandy Patinkin (Homeland) would be starring opposite Adam Bakri (Omar) in the big screen adaptation of Kurban Said’s bestselling novel…