EXCLUSIVE: 47 Meters Down producers James Harris and Mark Lane are exiting their partnership with UK financier The Fyzz Facility to relaunch their former label Tea Shop Productions with financier Head Gear Films (The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind). Development and production executive Leonora Darby will also be leaving…

In an unexpected move, UK producer Wayne Marc Godfrey has stepped down from his role as Director and co-CEO of The Fyzz Group, the finance and production firm he helped set up a decade ago. In a note to industry today, Godfrey described his departure last month as “difficult” and “regrettable” but expressed pride at…

Oscar-winner Anne Hathaway is in negotiations to star in Mudbound director Dee Rees’ political thriller, The Last Thing He Wanted. The story is based on the 1996 novel by Joan Didion and will be produced by Elevated’s Cassian Elwes. The Fyzz Facility’s Wayne Marc Godfrey and Robert Jones will produce and finance. Bloom…

Get Him To The Greek star Russell Brand is heading back to the big screen in action feature Butterfingers. The comedian is to play a hitman in the movie, which is directed by I, Anna's by Barnaby Southcombe and based on a script from Full Nelson's Tom Nash. Butterfingers will be produced and financed by The Fyzz Facili…

EXCLUSIVE: STX and Sparkle Roll's The Foreigner, originated by The Fyzz Facility, has already crossed $100M globally and is nearing $100M at the international box office with $98.5M projected through this weekend. After some mixed attempts by others, this one is a fine example of how a Chinese co-production can work…

48 Meters Down, the sequel to 47 Meters Down will be distributed globally by Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures, the theatrical distribution division of Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios. ESMP will push out the  suspense thriller from The Fyzz Facility worldwide. The indie 47 Meters Down, which starred Mandy…

Dee Rees, whose much buzzed-about film Mudbound will be available to stream on Netflix in November, has signed on to direct the film adaptation of Joan Didion’s 1996 best-selling political thriller The Last Thing He Wanted. Cassian Elwes of Elevated, a producer on Mudbound, optioned the book last year to develop it in…