Variety reports that UK Film Council's Premiere Fund has announced an investment of $4 million into Valiant, the CGI feature about a plucky WW2 pigeon that Shrek producer John Williams is set to shoot at London's Ealing Studios.
Williams' Vanguard Films has set up Vanguard Animation UK at Ealing to make the movie, to be directed by British helmer Gary Chapman. Disney in North America is releasing the film under its overall deal with Williams, and by Entertainment Film Distributors in the UK.
Separately, the Premiere Fund has committed $390,000 to co-finance Peter Chelsom's The Freddie Randall Story, with Gary Oldman and Cate Blanchett attached to star. The film is the true story of an amateur inventor during WW2.
The fund has also added another $1.21 million to the $780,000 it has already invested into Mike Leigh's next movie, Untitled '03, which is currently in pre-production.
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Williams' Vanguard Films has set up Vanguard Animation UK at Ealing to make the movie, to be directed by British helmer Gary Chapman. Disney in North America is releasing the film under its overall deal with Williams, and by Entertainment Film Distributors in the UK.
Separately, the Premiere Fund has committed $390,000 to co-finance Peter Chelsom's The Freddie Randall Story, with Gary Oldman and Cate Blanchett attached to star. The film is the true story of an amateur inventor during WW2.
The fund has also added another $1.21 million to the $780,000 it has already invested into Mike Leigh's next movie, Untitled '03, which is currently in pre-production.
From Comingsoon.net