Genesius Footage and Cornerstone Movies, who beforehand teamed on BAFTA nominated “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,” have partnered to kind content material administration firm GenStone.
GenStone, set as much as take an built-in method to the event and manufacturing and distribution of unbiased movies, launches with comedy highway film “Libby and Joan Hit the Highway,” written by “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande” scribe Katy Model.
The movie is a U.Okay./Australian co-production with manufacturing and distribution firm The Reset Collective in Sydney, during which Cornerstone and Genesius are companions.
GenStone will deal with three areas of content material administration – growth and acquisition of IP; second stage assist to quick monitor tasks into finance and manufacturing, and worldwide co-productions – all concentrating on cinematic content material for a broad spectrum of audiences. Movies can be produced or co-produced by Genesius and Cornerstone will oversee international distribution.
Cornerstone and Genesius additionally teamed on “The Iceman, with Joseph Fiennes starring as Wim Hof, and “The Radleys.”
Genesius’ Debbie Grey stated: “I’m extraordinarily happy to be embarking on this new enterprise with the workforce from Cornerstone. To develop content material collectively which ensures it may be produced and bought internationally may be very thrilling. We’re dedicated to the unbiased movie market and hope this partnership brings nice alternatives for writers and filmmakers.”
Cornerstone’s Alison Thompson and Mark Gooder added: “We imagine with our mixed experience, Genesius with its robust inventive producer skillset and expertise relationships and Cornerstone with its intensive data of financing and the worldwide market, will guarantee our tasks have a transparent path to manufacturing and international distribution impacting as broad an viewers as attainable. In different phrases, the tales we nurture and switch into movies will fulfil a definite set of standards together with the power to draw expertise, a industrial eye to the market and with an identifiable path to finance.”
