DEADLINE | JULY 2024

British agent Holly Bott has launched Little Arrow, a new management company that counts Traitors host Claudia Winkleman among its clients.

DEADLINE | JUNE 14 2023

After years of friendship that goes way beyond the two A-listers making it big in Hollywood, Bradley Cooper and Will Arnett are coming on to develop the Searchlight pic Is This Thing On?, with both set to co-star in the film with Cooper also directing. Arnett penned the script with Mark Chappell.

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER | MARCH 16 2023

Underwood's debut novel — set in blood-soaked Ancient Greece and already moving up the best-seller charts after just one week in publication — is to be adapted for film.

THE BOOKSELLER I MAY 3 2022

Television rights to Ned Beauman’s upcoming thriller Venomous Lumpsucker, scheduled for UK publication by Sceptre on 14th July, have been acquired by Kris Thykier’s Archery Pictures, the production company behind John Madden’s “Operation Mincemeat” and Sky thriller “Riviera”. 

VARIETY I APRIL 25 2022

Kris Thykier’s Archery Pictures, whose credits include John Madden’s “Operation Mincemeat” and Sky thriller “Riviera,” has acquired the television rights to Ned Beauman’s highly anticipated new novel “Venomous Lumpsucker.”

DEADLINE I APRIL 21 2022

Luther star Idris Elba will turn hostage negotiator in a tense thriller drama series for Apple TV+.

THE TIMES I APRIL 12 2022

Ian Fleming, paraphrasing Winston Churchill, gets the best line in this true-life wartime thriller. While contemplating the nature of spycraft in 1943, Fleming (Johnny Flynn), who was then the personal assistant to the director of naval intelligence, describes the world of espionage as “a wilderness of mirrors in which the truth is protected by a bodyguard of lies”.

APRIL 12 2022

Kelly Macdonald and Colin Firth led the stars attending the premiere of Operation Mincemeat at The Curzon Mayfair

DEADLINE I FEBRUARY 18 2021

Netflix has given a nod to Winx. The streamer said today that it has ordered an eight-episode second season of its month-old drama Fate: The Winx Club, starring Chilling Adventures of Sabrina alum Abigail Cowen.

JANUARY 22 2022

Based on the popular Italian animated franchise Winx Club, the 6 episode series follows the coming-of-age journey of five unlikely friends attending Alfea, a magical boarding school in the Otherworld. Here they must learn to master their magical powers while navigating love, rivalries and the monsters that threaten their very existence.

VARIETY I JANUARY 11 2021

British star and producer Idris Elba’s Green Door Pictures and BAFTA-nominated producer Kris Thykier’s Archery Pictures are entering a multi-year joint venture to work together on select future film and TV projects.

DEADLINE I JANUARY 11 2021

Golden Globe-winner Idris Elba and Riviera and Kick-Ass producer Kris Thykier are entering into a joint venture that will see their respective production companies, Elba’s Green Door Pictures and Thykier’s Archery Pictures, working together on multiple film and TV projects.

SCREEN DAILY I NOVEMBER 11 2020

Kris Thykier’s Archery Pictures and Danny Perkins’ Elysian Film Group are teaming to launch the UK comedy production outfit Mews Films. The new venture will be run by producer Kurban Kassam who joins as Managing Director.

THE TIMES I NOVEMBER 17 2020

The producer of the Sky drama series Riviera is creating a production house to develop British comedies.

DEADLINE I JANUARY 8 2020

Archery Pictures, the UK production outfit behind Sky drama Riviera, has hired Working Title Television’s Georgina Gordon-Smith to the newly-created role of Head of Development.

DEADLINE I DECEMBER 6 2019

Matthew Macfadyen (Succession), Penelope Wilton (Downton Abbey), and Johnny Flynn (Beast) are joining Colin Firth and Kelly Macdonald in John Madden’s WWII drama Operation Mincemeat.

OCTOBER 15 2020

Julia Stiles stars in a Sky original set in the glamorous French Riviera: sun-soaked playground to the super rich, and the perfect place to hide dangerous secrets.

In Series 3, Georgina (Julia Stiles) has abandoned the cursed Riviera and started her life over, only to be thrown headlong into a dark and dangerous conspiracy.

DEADLINE I SEPTEMBER 17 2019

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina‘s Abigail Cowen is set to lead the ensemble cast of Netflix’s live-action young adult series Fate: The Winx Saga, inspired by the Italian animated franchise, from original series producer Rainbow Group and Archery Pictures.

DEADLINE I SEPTEMBER 27 2019

Sherlock’s Rupert Graves is joining the third season of Sky drama Riviera.

VARIETY I MAY 24 2019

Sky has ordered a third season of “Riviera” with filming starting this fall. Julia Stiles will return as Georgina Clios and the action is set to move from France’s Cote d’Azur to an international stage.

VARIETY I MAY 19 2019

‘Operation Mincemeat,’ starring Colin Firth, has sold out international territories at Cannes Film Festival (2019). Warner Bros. has picked up several key markets, as has Central and Eastern European distributor Prorom.

MAY 6 2019

SCREEN DAILY I OCTOBER 30 2018

Archery Pictures included in Screen Daily’s survey of UK production companies actively engaging in originating, developing and producing feature films for both local and international distribution.

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER I MAY 21 2018

Will Arnett is among the new recruits joining the super rich in the south of France for the second season of Riviera.

Juliet Stevenson and Poppy Delevingne are also among those joining Julia Stiles in the south of France.

SCREEN DAILY I SEPTEMBER 15 2017

Kris Thykier’s Archery Pictures has hired film and TV executive Judy Counihan in the role of creative director. She joins newly appointed head of production Danielle Brandon and finance director Deba Mithal as the core executive team at the company working alongside COO Alex Marshall.

APRIL 4 2018