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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: January 12th, 2003 Allison Wild – (in UK) 07973 363647 (From the US) 01144797 363647 UK based Crystal Vale Entertainment is moving full force into the movie business with the announcement of The Wanderers, the first of several film projects they will produce. The Wanderers is written by McKay Daines and Richard Michaels Stefanik and will be produced by McKay Daines and Allison Wild with an estimated budget of £10 million. Richard Turner will co-produce, and the anticipated cast will include many of Britain’s most talented and famous actors. Production is scheduled to begin early February 2003. The Wanderers is an historical drama, part mystery, part comedy, centering on the relationship between 18th century British literary figures Dr. Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. The mystery surrounds Dr. Johnson's still unexplained friendship with a minor, slightly crazed, bombastic, murdering poet, Richard Savage. Johnson defended Savage, much to the dismay of the famed members of his historic Literary Club, David Garrick, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmund Burke, all of whom feature in the film. The film follows the tradition of such historically based hits as Shakespeare in Love and Gosford Park. The film will be shot in multiple locations in England, including Oxford University. Crystal Vale is headed by Bill Kimber and Jerry Howson. Kimber is well known in music entertainment dating back to when he began as General Manager of Screen Gems Columbia Music. He represented writers such as Carole King, Neil Sedaka, Barry Mann and Gerry Goffin, and worked with successful pop acts including The Bay City Rollers, Hello and Helen Shapiro. Kimber then joined the A&R team of RCA Records and after achieving ten top ten hits, including three number 1 hits with acts including Bucks Fizz, Kate Robbins, Sugar Minott, Landscape and Kenny Everett. He was promoted to Divisional Director of A&R and Music Publishing and his success continued with signings such as The Eurythmics, who were perhaps the biggest, Clannad, Bow Wow Wow, Joboxers and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra's fabulous "Hooked On Classics" package. Kimber was handed control of RCA's music publishing division and signed The Eurythmics (giving RCA its first UK signed copyright to reach number 1 in the US charts with "Sweet Dreams"). Subsequently the publishing company attained top three corporate publisher status, and is now, since RCA's take-over by the Berttlesmann Group, BMG Music. Kimber then went on to form the Big Wave Group, with which he had immediate worldwide success with Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers, achieving 3 consecutive number one placings in UK and European charts with the first three singles, as well as going to number one with the first album in every European territory. McKay Daines is a writer, producer, director, and will be working with Crystal Vale on two other film projects of his, Dream Catcher, a Native American romantic comedy set in the US west which he wrote and is the producer and director. He is also the co-writer and co-producer and Lost in St. Petersburg, a romantic comedy to be shot this summer in St. Petersburg, Russia, and in and around Oxfordshire, UK. McKay is producer with Ron Maxwell (Gods and Generals) of Mr. Maxwell’s $50 million epic Joan of Arc. McKay recently produced and directed a cable television series, The Nashville Connection, which won a Telly award. An award-winning British filmmaker with Crime, Punishment and a Tasty Morsel, Allison Wild, has worked in the film & television industry, both in the United States and Britain, for the last fifteen years. Allison is also the co-writer of Once We Were Old, co-writer of Danny Boy, writer and director of Cheek to Cheek, the writer and director of Crime and Retribution, a psychological thriller; co-writer and producer for Lost in St. Petersburg, and the writer and director of 2121, a sci-fi thriller. Richard Turner, Co-Producer, has extensive experience in all film production areas, and is recently the associate producer of Ashes and Sand a feature film shot in London and Brighton. Richard worked as the line producer for The Weekend, and was the financial controller of The Misadventures of Margaret as well as Our Boy, Safe & Sound, An Independent Man, Hearts and Minds, White Goods, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Peter’s Friends, The Return of the Musketeers. Richard Michaels Stefanik was a screenwriting fellow at the American Film Institute and has worked with several Hollywood studios. He currently heads RMS Management Group which specializes in managing screenwriters and consulting on scripts. His book, The Megahit Movies, analyzes hit films with over $250 million in Box Office receipts, and Richard has become a fixture on script conferences worldwide where he is a featured speaker. This is the first of several films Crystal Vale Entertainment intends to produce, including Lost in St. Petersburg. They are also currently in negotiation to co-produce McKay Daines’ Dream Catcher with groups in the US headed up by actor/executive producer Ray Tracey. The Wanderers casting and production news will follow in subsequent press releases. |
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