Katy Model Strains Up Subsequent Film Comedy ‘Libby and Joan Hit the Street’ – The Hollywood Reporter

Virtually precisely a yr after Brit comedy drama Good Luck to You, Leo Grande first bowed in Sundance 2022 and started amassing the acclaim that may see it land 4 BAFTA nominations (together with for leads Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack), the following movie from its author Katy Model has been introduced.

Libby and Joan Hit the Street is a comedy street film from BAFTA-nominated screenwriter, actor and comic Model, and a U.Okay./Australian co-production with The Reset Collective in Sydney.

Libby and Joan Hit the Street can be the primary mission from GenStone, a newly launched content material administration firm arrange by London-based Genesius Photos, which produced Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, and manufacturing/gross sales banner Cornerstone Movies, which offered the movie internationally.

In line with the businesses, Gemstone will deal with three areas of content material administration: improvement and acquisition of IP; second stage help to quick observe tasks into finance and manufacturing; and international co-productions. The focus can be on cinematic content material for a broad spectrum of audiences. Movies can be produced or co-produced by Genesius and Cornerstone will oversee world distribution.

Alongside their collaboration on Good Luck to You, Leo Grande Cornerstone and Genesius have labored collectively on The Iceman, starring Joseph Fiennes as Wim Hof, and The Radleys, which was introduced forward of the 2022 American Movie Market. The 2 are additionally companions within the Reset Collective, which they launched in 2020.

“I’m extraordinarily happy to be embarking on this new enterprise with the staff from Cornerstone,” stated Debbie Grey, who based Genesius Photos in 2013 with movie financier and producer Julian Gleek. “To develop content material collectively which ensures it may be produced and offered internationally could be very thrilling. We’re dedicated to the impartial movie market and hope this partnership brings nice alternatives for writers and filmmakers.”

Cornerstone’s Alison Thompson and Mark Gooder added: “We consider with our mixed experience, Genesius with its robust inventive producer skillset and expertise relationships and Cornerstone with its intensive information of financing and the worldwide market, will guarantee our tasks have a transparent path to manufacturing and world distribution impacting as extensive an viewers as potential. In different phrases, the tales we nurture and switch into movies will fulfil a definite set of standards together with the flexibility to draw expertise, a business eye to the market and with an identifiable path to finance.”