Big Talk signs deal with Optimum. First joint project will be ‘Attack the Block’

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Brit shingle Big Talk has inked a co-financing and co-production pact with U.K. distrib and producer Optimum Releasing. It’s the latest sign of Optimum’s desire to ramp up production and become a major player in the British film industry. The deal will also include pubcaster Channel 4’s production arm Film4, with whom Big Talk has had a partial first-look deal for the past two years. [read original article]

[Ali Jaafar] Variety, Thursday October 29th, 2009