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Exclusive: Ahead of next month’s European Film Market, U.S. firm Capstone and UK outfit Signature Entertainment are teaming up to launch a new joint sales agency venture called Capture.

The label will be led by Signature’s Ella Field and her team in London and will be a full-service international sales company, with additional financing opportunities for upcoming productions.

Capture will combine Capstone’s genre arm Blue Box with Signature International under one new umbrella. All of Signature International’s ongoing business will be absorbed into the new venture, including their catalogue and upcoming productions.

Capture is due to focus on commercially driven projects in all stages of development and production. First projects are due to be revealed in the near future and we’re told no job losses resulted from the merger.

Ella Field said: “Capture marks an exciting new chapter of our Signature International journey, expanding...

Freddie Thorp is a British actor. He is best known for his roles in Netflix’s Safe and the movie Summit Fever (2022).

Freddie Thorp Biography: Age, Early Life, Family, Education

Freddie Thorp was born on March 7, 1994 (Freddie Thorp: Age 29), in Chelsea, London to Antonia Manley and Nick Thorp. Thorp went to school at Summer Fields School in Oxford before going to Eton College.

In 2013 Thorp went to New York City to take classes at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.

In an exclusive interview with uInterview, Thorp discussed what got him interested in acting.

“My dad is a musician or was a musician in the 80s so that probably normalized the creative industry for me as a profession and perhaps I kind of looked up to it,” Thorp revealed. “I never wanted to follow him into music and obviously, I had always been fascinated with storytelling and I was like,...

March brings a fresh slate of new shows and films to Hulu. The rotation of the catalogue also makes room for well-loved films arriving on the streamer this month. Sports buffs will enjoy “Love and Basketball” (2000) as well as “Kicking & Screaming” (2005). Animated family favorites include “Rio” (2011) and “Ice Age: Continental Drift” (2010).

As for new releases, Keira Knightley and Carrie Coon play hard-working journalists in the investigative thriller “Boston Strangler” (2023) from writer and director Matt Ruskin. Olivia Colman can be seen as Miss Havisham in FX’s rendition of “Great Expectations.” And a new twist on reality dating involves the charming countryside with “Farmer Wants a Wife.”

And Best Picture Oscar nominee “Triangle of Sadness” hits the streamer on March 3.

The Oscars as well as the pre-show and post-show red carpets will also be available to livestream around March 12 when the ceremony takes place and March 13, the day after, if...

It’s ironic but unavoidable that the greatest annual celebration of film should be a television special — but that’s just how it is. March often means Oscar season, a time for cinephiles to boot up that small screen you use for movies and use it to see if they win any awards during a telecast.

If you don’t have TV service anymore, Hulu has you covered with a pre-Oscars telecast as well as two red carpet specials before and after the main event. Though the ceremony itself won’t be livestreamed on Hulu, it will be added the next morning, like regular ABC programming. Awards viewership has been in general decline over the past several years, but next-day streaming gives curious viewers a chance to join the conversation and boost those Oscar ratings after the live show. It’s also a chance for superfans to pause and rewind...

Here’s the latest episode of the The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the ever-growing podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.

For those unfamiliar with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors.

The Filmmaker’s Podcast #307: Surviving as a filmmaker with writer/director of survival thriller Summit Fever,...

Summit Fever follows a group of friends, including Freddie Thorp, Michel Biel and Ryan Phillippe, as they begin their quest to climb the three most dangerous mountains in the Alps. Their friendship is tested as they search for a way out when a storm threatens their lives.

Thorp, who plays Michael, and director Julian Gilbey recently sat down for a conversation with uInterview founder Erik Meers to discuss how they made the climbing scenes in their new film.

>Watch Michel Biel’s uINTERVIEW!

“I had this advantage that we weren’t going to shoot the entirety of the film in one fell swoop,” Gilbey said. “We were going to have a couple of scenes where we went out and filmed some climbing sections which were initially planned to be with doubles and stunt people. Freddie just came across as very physically able very early on when we had shot a...

Summit Fever follows a group of friends as they begin their quest to climb the three most dangerous mountains in the Alps. Their friendship is tested as they search for a way out when a storm threatens their lives.

Michel Biel, the French actor know for his role in Emily in Paris who plays Jp in the film, recently sat down with uInterview founder Erik Meers to discuss what it was like to shoot a movie that took place on a mountain.

“It was all on location,” the actor revealed. “We shot everything between Chamonix, Italy and Switzerland so we were actually climbing and going up on the glacier and doing almost every single stunt by ourselves. The only thing where we used green screen was we were, for example, climbing in Chamonix on a rock climbing wall and instead of being 1,000 meters up high, we would be maybe 30 meters...

For his latest video, Kevin sits down for an exclusive interview with Julian Gilbey, director of mountain-climbing survival thriller Summit Fever, which stars Ryan Phillippe and Freddie Thorp. You can also check out Kev’s review of the film here.

A daring dream to scale the world’s most challenging trio of mountains soon turns into a terrifying nightmare for a group of friends when a deadly storm traps the climbers near the summit and cuts off all hope of rescue. With the odds stacked against them, the friends are forced to trust each other to save themselves by any means necessary.

Summit Fever is out now in the UK from Signature Entertainment.

Director Julian Gilbey is back and this time he is offering us Summit Fever, a survival thriller based on a true story starring Ryan Phillippe and Freddie Thorp.

A daring dream to scale the world’s most challenging trio of mountains soon turns into a terrifying nightmare for a group of friends when a deadly storm traps the climbers near the summit and cuts off all hope of rescue. With the odds stacked against them, the friends are forced to trust each other to save themselves by any means necessary.

Summit Fever is out now in the UK from Signature Entertainment.

Exclusive: Ryan Phillippe is throwing himself into the podcast business.

The actor, best known for starring in films such as Cruel Intentions and Crash, is to host and executive producer a series delving into the history of Hollywood’s stunt performers.

Phillippe, who starred in USA Network series Shooter and has upcoming films such as Summit Fever and American Murderer, has teamed with Wheelhouse DNA on The Fall Guys (w/t).

It comes as part of a content pact with the company, part of Brent Montgomery’s empire that produces podcasts such as Locked In with Alex Warren and Spotify’s Internet Urban Legends as well as Facebook series Cookin’ with Brooklyn.

The series will feature interviews with actors, producers, technicians, directors and legendary stunt performers and will highlight the often-overlooked heroes of moviemaking and the artform that has been a crucial component of film and television for more than a century.

"His sponsors pushed him too hard, man… Demanding bigger, bolder, scarier routes." Saban Films has revealed the first official trailer for Summit Fever, yet another new mountain climbing movie from genre filmmaker Julian Gilbey. This is debuting directly on VOD to watch in October if anyone wants to check it out. A young climber spends a hedonistic summer in Chamonix near Mont Blanc whilst attempting to climb the world's deadliest trio of mountains. This one stars Freddie Thorp, Michel Biel, Mathilde Warnier, Hannah New, Théo Christine, and Ryan Phillippe. "Vanity" is indeed a deadly thing to bring into the mountains, but ironically a series of vane actors are playing these roles, which is literally bringing vanity into these mountains. Everything about this looks and feels so cheesy, I prefer the more authentic mountain movies like 14 Peaks or The Eight Mountains instead. Might still be a fun watch with some pizza and beer.

Exclusive: Ryan Phillippe (MacGruber), Mireille Enos (Hanna), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks) and Taryn Manning (Orange Is the New Black) are the latest additions to Michelle Danner’s courtroom drama, Miranda’s Victim. They join an ensemble led by Abigail Breslin, which also includes Luke Wilson, Andy Garcia and Donald Sutherland, as previously announced.

The film will tell the true story of Trish Weir (Breslin), who in 1963 was kidnapped and brutally raped by Ernesto Miranda. Committed to putting her assailant in prison, Trish’s life is destroyed by America’s legal system as she triggers a law that transforms the nation. Her case notably results in the establishment of the Miranda rights afforded to criminal suspects taken in police custody, to ensure the admissibility of statements made during interrogation, as part of subsequent criminal proceedings.

Phillippe will play the ACLU lawyer Flynn, who successfully argues in front of the Supreme Court...

Saban Films has nabbed North American rights to the thriller “Summit Fever,” starring Ryan Phillippe and directed by Julian Gilbey.

Saban Films’ Bill Bromiley and producer Marc Goldberg brokered the deal.

The story of an English climber who, along with his friends, sets out to conquer “the Big Three” – the Matterhorn, the Eiger and Mont Blanc — but they hit deadly challenges. Freddie Thorp and Mathilde Warnier co-star. The pic, currently in post-production, was shot at altitudes as high as 3,000 meters-plus above sea level, and the cast trained as climbers.

Andrew Loveday, Tiernan Hanby and Marc Goldberg produced.

“We’re thrilled to work with such a talented director. Julian’s passion and climbing expertise are evident throughout this adrenaline-filled adventure,” said Saban Films’ Bill Bromiley. “With stellar performances from the cast who fully committed to their roles and trained to climb ahead of filming, we’re excited to share ‘Summit Fever’ with North American audiences.

Mackey joins project from A Lonely Place To Die director Julian Gilbey.

Emma Mackey, the breakout star of popular Netflix series Sex Education, has officially boarded the cast of UK-France survival thriller Summit Fever.

The actress joins Freddie Thorp (Overdrive) in the film, which is from A Lonely Place To Die director Julian Gilbey.

Set in the French Alps, Summit Fever is the story of a young English mountaineer who is lured to the Alps by his friend to help him conquer the ‘Big Three’ – the Matterhorn, the Eiger, and Mont Blanc, all over one summer.

The film is a...