Headline Pictures

Headline Pictures Limited
FormerlyCommon Features Limited (1995–2005)[1]
Company typePrivate limited
IndustryFilm and television production
FoundedJanuary 2005.[2]
Founder
Headquarters
London
,
England
Key people
  • Christian Baute
Websiteheadline-pictures.com

Headline Pictures Limited is an International Emmy-winning[3] British film and television production company founded in 2005 by BAFTA nominee Stewart Mackinnon, former BBC Head of Drama Mark Shivas and screenwriter Kevin Hood.[2][4][5] The company is now part of the UGC group.[6]

The company has developed and produced film and television including The Man in the High Castle for Amazon Studios written by X-Files creator Frank Spotnitz; Irish crime series Kin starring Charlie Cox; the feature film Quartet, directed by Dustin Hoffman; and feature film The Invisible Woman directed by Ralph Fiennes.[7][8]

  1. ^ "HEADLINE PICTURES LIMITED overview". Companies House. 11 August 1995. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
  2. ^ a b c Press Office (18-12-2006) Great Ormond St entrusts film & tv rights to Peter Pan In Scarlet to BBC Films, UK Film Council & Headline Pictures BBC Press Office
  3. ^ "International Emmys Press Release". Archived from the original on 26 November 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
  4. ^ Obituary: Mark Shivas, Daily Telegraph, 16 October 2008
  5. ^ IMDB Stewart Mackinnon
  6. ^ Press Release AMC+ scores a trio of acclaimed crime dramas
  7. ^ Geoffrey Macnab (03-01-2013) Headline Pictures co-founder Stewart Mackinnon talks to Screen Screen Daily
  8. ^ Deadline (18-02-2021) AMC+ Acquires Trio Of Crime Dramas