2 months ago
EXCLUSIVE: Former Buccaneer CEO Richard Tulk-Hart and erstwhile Cineflix Head of Scripted TV James Durie are taking nan High Road. The brace person joined forces to motorboat High Road Entertainment, a caller co-production and income consultancy for nan play biz.
It is already moving connected projects including Greek-set crime bid Antiparos successful business pinch Tanweer Productions and Connor Swindells’ drama play Shinjuku Sugar Fox pinch Just John Films.
Tulk-Hart and Durie are seasoned play execs. Having been colleagues astatine Miramax, Tulk-Hart went connected to go CEO of Buccaneer and Durie Head of Scripted astatine Cineflix. In caller years they person worked together connected bid including So Long, Marianne, The Doll Factory and Whitstable Pearl.
Their exec shaper credits variously span shows specified arsenic Sunny Nights, The Walsh Sisters and Marcella.
High Road Entertainment will counsel scripted producers crossed Europe connected financing and distribution, while besides processing its ain scripted slate. The entity was primitively launched past summertime by Tulk-Hart arsenic Volteo Media, per our communicative astatine nan time. Durie has now joined and will tally nan rebadged business pinch Tulk-Hart. The brace are co-CEOs.
‘In this fractured marketplace it really feels for illustration location is abstraction for a elastic move attack to getting shows from IP to screen,” nan brace said successful a statement. “We’re present to subordinate nan dots and person done truthful connected a number of shows already. There is nary uncertainty we are successful a difficult play for nan manufacture and what we tin do is navigate nan cardinal players done each measurement of nan measurement and make judge a show is fixed its champion chance of making it to screen”.
The High Road execs will beryllium astatine play confab Series Mania adjacent week. They are expected to deed Lille pinch a caller show, pinch specifications dropping during nan week of nan event.
