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Intandem announces ambitious $50m slate

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UK-based Intandem Films has announced major expansion plans for its current financial year (ending June 30, 2007), which include international licensing on its biggest film to date, the $14m Wesley Snipes vehicle GallowWalker, and on the new films by Anand Tucker (Hilary and Jackie) and Julian Schnabel (Before Night Falls).

Currently shooting, GallowWalker has been described as a “supernatural action/horror film with a spaghetti western setting”. Intandem, headed by Gary Smith, has already raised over $2.4m in pre-sales based on the script and cast.

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Tucker’s new film And When Did You Last See Your Father? is based on Blake Morrison’s memoirs. The film, which just finished shooting in the UK on November 25, is being produced by Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen (Number 9 Films). It is the first project to come out of the Number 9 UK Film Council Superslate consortium of which Intandem is a member, along with Film4 and the Irish Film Board.

World rights on the project have already been licensed to Sony Classics for North and Latin America, Icon for Australia and Lusomundo for Portugal. Buena Vista will release it in the UK in September 2007.

Two other Number 9 Superslate films will go into production in 2007. The first, The Lonely Doll, to be directed by Schnabel, is based on a script by US writer Caroline Thompson (Edward Scissorhands). Killer Films in the US will produce with Number 9. How To Lose Friends and Alienate People will be directed by US filmmaker Bob Weide with UK actor Simon Pegg in the lead.

In a separate move to strengthen its position as a key executive production, sales and distribution company, three year-old Intandem Films has also acquired rights to four genre movies through $7.2m in loan notes issued by US based Capitoline Global Finance. In total, the number of films to be completed by the end of the current financial year will climb from three to 15, with budgets exceeding $50m.

Intandem’s annual results for the year ended June 30, 2006 were slightly better than the previous year, with a turnover of £563,962 against £547,978.

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