UK Studio Shinfield Secures $340M Financing; See-Saw Options ‘Father Figure’; ACF Opens In NY – Global Briefs

UK Stu­dio Shin­field Secures $340M Financ­ing

Shin­field Stu­dios has secured £250M ($340M) in financ­ing. The Brit stu­dio, which has filmed Ghost­busters: Frozen Empire and The Acolyte, com­plet­ed con­struc­tion last year in the south of Eng­land. Own­er Shad­ow­box has secured the financ­ing for Shin­field via Apol­lo-man­aged funds and the huge sit is now ful­ly oper­a­tional. It is one of a num­ber of UK stu­dios that has become home to big Amer­i­can projects. “We are tremen­dous­ly proud of what we’ve accom­plished since ful­ly open­ing Shin­field Stu­dios last year,” said Peter Rum­bold, CEO of Shad­ow­box Stu­dios. “Shadowbox’s busi­ness mod­el is pred­i­cat­ed on pro­vid­ing mod­ern, high-qual­i­ty film infra­struc­ture, and today’s announce­ment both marks a major mile­stone for Shin­field and fur­ther val­i­dates the impor­tance of pur­pose-built facil­i­ties with­in the glob­al pro­duc­tion land­scape.” Shad­ow­box also runs a nine-stage, 850,000-square-foot cam­pus in Atlanta, Geor­gia and is devel­op­ing a 10-stage, 500,000-square-foot stu­dio on Australia’s Gold Coast.

See-Saw Films has optioned Father Fig­ure, the upcom­ing nov­el from Emma For­rest. The book will be made by See-Saw label fan­boy, which is run by Heart­stop­per EP Patrick Wal­ters, and fol­lows Gail, a trou­bled schol­ar­ship stu­dent at the exclu­sive girls’ school Saint Sav­iours. Impul­sive, bored, and yearn­ing for con­nec­tion, she’s at that dan­ger­ous age when you want to be picked up by men and dri­ven home by your moth­er. Father Fig­ure is the lat­est in a series of lit­er­ary options for See-Saw, which also recent­ly acquired the rights to Shifters by Bene­dict Lombe, and Wel­come to Glo­ri­ous Tuga by Francesca Segal, along­side a first look deal with writer Ben Van­stone. Fan­boy recent­ly made Sweet­pea for Sky, the Ella Pur­nell-series that has been recom­mis­sioned. “Father Fig­ure is an incred­i­ble nov­el and we’re so excit­ed to be adapt­ing it for tele­vi­sion,” said Wal­ters. “Emma is a sin­gu­lar tal­ent I’ve long admired since the sem­i­nal Your Voice In My Head.”