Film Productions

Principals of the Fund and Film Adviser have been involved in the provision of finance to a number of independent films in recent times, which include:

UPCOMING FILMS

Hunky Dory- Drama

Cast: Mini Driver, Aneurin Barnard and Danielle Branch

Director: Marc Evans

UK release date: 4th quarter 2011

Trap for Cinderella - Thriller

Cast: Tuppence Middleton, Kerry Fox and Alexandra Roach

Director: Iain Softley

UK release date: 2012

360 - Drama

Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Rachel Weisz, Jude Law and Ben Foster

Director: Fernando Meirelles

Release date: 4th quarter 2011

Song for Marion - Comedy

Cast: Gemma Arterton, Christopher Eccleston, Vanessa Redgrave and Terence Stamp

Director: Paul Andrew Williams

Release date: 2012

The Kings Speech

The true story of the man who would become King George VI (the current Queen's father) and the unorthodox speech therapist who helped him to the throne. Hindered by a nervous stutter, 'Bertie' Windsor lived his early life away from the public eye, only to be thrown into the spotlight as a result of his brother's abdication. Terrified by his inability to be a public king, Bertie turned to Australian Lionel Logue.

Cast: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter

Director:Tom Hooper (The Damned United)

The film has so far grossed $414m and won 4 Oscars including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor for Colin Firth and Best Director for Tom Hooper

UK Release Date: January 2011.

Horrid Henry

When Henry fails yet again to hand in his homework for the umpteenth time, he has no idea that this will set off a chain of events which will see him forming an unlikely alliance with Moody Margaret, the infuriating girl next door, and his irritating little brother Perfect Peter, outwitting corrupt School Inspectors and toppling an evil Headmaster, winning a talent contest and facing his ultimate nemesis with no way out - all because he is trying to save the very school which he has always professed to hate!

Cast:Anjelica Houston, Richard E. Grant and Parminder Nagra

Director: Nick Moore

UK Release Date: July 2011.

The Guard

Three drug-dealers are planning to land half a billion dollars' worth of cocaine off the west coast of Ireland. The only men standing in their way are straight-laced FBI agent Wendell Everett and Gerry Boyle, an unconventional Guard, with a dying mother, a fondness for prostitutes, and a heightened sense of the absurd.

Cast: Don Cheadle (Ocean's 11, 12 & 13, Crash), Brendan Gleeson (In Bruges, Beowulf), Mark Strong (Sherlock Holmes, Body of Lies), Liam Cunningham (Clash of the Titans, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor).

Director: John Michael McDonagh (Ned Kelly, The Second Death).

UK Release Date: 3rd or 4th quarter 2010.

Chalet Girl

A young girl from a working class suburb lands a job in an up-market ski resort, where she finds herself totally out of her depth until she discovers her natural snowboarding ability, and develops a romance with her boss's son.

Cast: Tamsin Egerton (St Trinian's 2, Keeping Mum), Felicity Jones (Cemetery Junction, Brideshead Revisited), Bill Nighy (Love Actually, Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest), Ed Westwick (Children of Men, Son of Rambow), Brooke Shields (The Blue Lagoon, The Bachelor).

Director: Phil Trail (Dangle, Flipped).

UK Release Date: 1st quarter 2011.

Postman Pat 3D

Postman Pat 3D is based on the successful TV series which held wide international commercial appeal.

This 3D animation will be made by the same production team at Classic Media, and will see the popular postman enter a national talent contest. The project is directed by Dave Osmand Creature Comforts, Shaun the Sheep, Wallace and Grommit, Chicken Run) and written by Kim Fuller (High Heels and Low Lifes, Spice World).

It is being internationally sold by Timeless Films, and will be released in the UK in the summer of 2011.


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Contact Details

Aegis Capital Partners LLP
Canon House
27 London End
Beaconsfield
Buckinghamshire
HP9 2HN

Tel: +44 1494 670737
Fax: +44 1494 670740