Starring Golda Rosheuvel and Nick Frost
The family film Grow, starring Golda Rosheuvel (Bridgerton) and Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz), is currently being showcased at the 2024 American Film Market (AFM) in Las Vegas. It is set for a 2025 release and is produced by Double Nickel Entertainment, in association with Sky and Orogen Entertainment. SC Films International handles global sales rights.
Directed by John McPhail (Anna and the Apocalypse), Grow centers on Dinah Little, a grumpy farmer played by Rosheuvel, who reluctantly takes in her niece Charlie (Priya-Rose Brookwell) from an orphanage. The story unfolds in the “Pumpkin Capital of the World,” where the highlight of the year is a high-stakes pumpkin-growing contest with a huge cash prize. With a special affinity for plants, Charlie enters the contest but faces sabotage and a genetically engineered rival. As Charlie nurtures her pumpkin, a bond grows between her and Dinah.
In addition to Rosheuvel and Brookwell, the cast includes Nick Frost, Tim McInnerny, Jane Horrocks, and comedian Alan Carr. The film’s production team includes Adam Richman, Jenette Kahn, and Joe Capotorto of Double Nickel Entertainment. Nick Guthe, Christos N. Gage, and Ruth Fletcher Gage wrote the screenplay.
Supporting cast includes Joe Wilkinson (After Life), Kathryn Drysdale (Bridgerton), Fisayo Akinade (Heartstopper), and Sharon Rooney (Barbie).
Grow is produced with Sky and commissioned by Andrew Orr, Head of Original Film at Sky UK. The film will be released globally in theaters and on Sky Cinema in the UK and Ireland in 2025. SC Films CEO Simon Crowe expressed excitement about the project, calling it a “funny and uplifting film for all the family.”
Executive producers from Sky, Orogen Entertainment, SC Films International, and Screen Scotland, among others, are supporting the film.
About SC Films
SC FILMS INTERNATIONAL is a London-based sales, distribution and production company founded by Simon Crowe and Matthew Joynes in 2008. SC has recently released animation features Marmaduke and Dragonkeeper. Girl In The Clouds is currently in production in France and Belgium. Australian hit The Way My Way will be theatrically released in the USA in March and April in Europe. Orang Ikan had its World Premiere in Tokyo FF last week, and By The Throat and Dusk are currently in post.
About Sky
Sky is one of Europe’s leading media and entertainment companies and is part of Comcast Corporation, a global media and technology company that connects people to moments and experiences that matter. At Sky we Believe in Better. It’s in our DNA.
We’re famous for innovation. We offer the world’s smartest TV, Sky Glass; our plug and play streaming puck, Sky Stream; the best aggregation platform; and streaming services NOW and WOW. We provide connectivity you can count on in mobile, fast, secure, reliable residential and business broadband, as well as smart home protection through Sky Protect.
We’re Europe’s premium content producer. We create award-winning original content, produce the biggest live sporting events, and we provide free access to news and the arts. Our new state-of-the-art film and TV studio Sky Studios Elstree is projected to attract £3 billion of new production investment to the UK in its first five years and create up to 2,000 jobs.
We are a diverse and inclusive employer that has a positive impact on society and the communities that we work and live in. Sky plays a major role in the UK’s cultural economy and, in 2022 alone, supported a contribution of £20 billion to UK GDP, broadcast 70,000 hours of elite sports coverage and invested over £130 million to provide news to consumers free of charge.
About Double Nickel Entertainment
Jenette Kahn and Adam Richman are partners at Double Nickel Entertainment in NYC. They optioned Gran Torino from the writer Nick Schenk when he wasn’t yet represented, developed it with him, and are producers on the movie. Of all Clint Eastwood’s films, it is second commercially only to American Sniper, grossing $270,000,000 worldwide theatrically.
The Company is currently represented by Maggie Bett’s acclaimed The Burial at Amazon starring Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones. After a Gala Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, the film was released in the fall of 2023 in theatres followed by an Amazon Prime Global roll-out. It is a critical smash at 94% on Rotten Tomatoes with Top Critics. The Burial has far surpassed Amazon’s viewership projections, becoming one of the most watched releases ever on Prime for an original film.
In partnership with That’s Wonderful Productions, Double Nickel produced A Kid Like Jake starring Claire Danes, Jim Parsons and Octavia Spencer. The film premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and was one of a handful of films that sold. IFC released Jake in June of 2018 to critical acclaim.
Prior to A Kid Like Jake, their most recent release was The Book of Henry that Colin Trevorrow directed after Jurassic World. Naomi Watts and IT star Jaeden Martell lead the cast alongside Jacob Tremblay.
In addition to other projects, the Company’s movie prior to Henry was the critically-acclaimed La Chispa de la Vida that they shot in Spanish in Spain. It premiered at Tribeca and received a great review from Neil Genzlinger in The New York Times. Playlist called it “the jewel of the festival” and both stars of the film were nominated for Goyas. Double Nickel is currently developing a Hindi version of the film.
In television, Jenette and Adam are under a non-exclusive episodic deal with Sky Studios that enables them to option and develop IP for TV. Through this deal, they have sold shows to Apple, Peacock and Quibi. Double Nickel has also sold series to Warner Bros. Television.
Grow is their first film with Sky.
About Orogen Entertainment
Orogen is headquartered in Los Angeles with international offices located in London, UK and Calgary, AB. Orogen provides private credit and equity capital to the independent film industry. Following a unique approach, Orogen has the team and capabilities to evaluate and finance projects in all stages of development. Orogen has built a team with extensive financial, market and legal expertise in the key areas of financing, production, sales and distribution. We are positioned to evaluate all opportunities and are backed with the capital to execute on our commitments.
About Blazing Griffin
Blazing Griffin is a BAFTA-winning Glasgow-based digital entertainment company that specialises in storytelling across a wide range of platforms and mediums with a specific focus on video game development, film and TV production and high-end post-production services.
Blazing Griffin Pictures has built its slate of commercial feature films centered on ‘genre with heart’. They work on a diverse range of projects from original content to licensed IP. Recent projects include Grow and Glenrothan – both in post-production, as well as other including Book of Love, The Last Glaciers, and the cult hit Anna and the Apocalypse. Their wide-ranging portfolio of projects ranges across comedy, horror and documentary, with many more in development.
Blazing Griffin Post-Production offers end to end post-production services and staff from their state-of-the-art 4K HDR and Dolby Atmos facility in Glasgow’s digital media quarter. Providing services to some of the largest productions in Scotland, recent credits include full post on Sky’s tentpole series The Tattooist of Auschwitz, picture post on award-winning drama series Vigil (BBC), picture and sound post on Stonehouse (ITV) and full post-production on flagship series Lucy Worsley investigates (BBC).
Blazing Griffin’s BAFTA-award winning Games division have launched Apple Arcade game Murder Mystery Machine, Catan Tilt Five AR and BAFTA nominated Hercule Poirot: The First Cases as well as the highly anticipated sequel, Hercule Poirot: The London Case. Other games developed and published by Blazing Griffin include Takenoko Tilt Five AR, Murderous Pursuits, The Ship: Murder Party and Distant Star.
About Foundry
Foundry Media was launched in 2024 as a joint venture between established content specialists Foresight Media and Enriched Media. Via its three subsidiaries Bridgeworks, Financeworks and Storyworks it provides finance and production services for producing partners across UK, North America and international territories.
About Screen Scotland
Screen Scotland drives development of all aspects of Scotland’s film and tv industry, through funding and strategic support. Screen Scotland is part of Creative Scotland and delivers these services and support with funding from Scottish Government and The National Lottery. Find out more at screen.scot and follow us on Twitter and Instagram.
Source: Press Release
