The Conclave company’s future ambitions include building on partnerships and collaborations in the US
Need to know: Former Film4 boss Tessa Ross and Working Title TV head Juliette Howell opened the doors to House Productions in 2016. With a slate that is broadly 50/50 film and TV, everyone in the 15-strong team works across both types of production. Edward Berger’s Conclave has been the company’s biggest box-office success globally, bringing in $127m, and was the best-performing UK independent release of 2024. Further film credits include Bird, The Iron Claw and Starve Acre. Highlights on TV have been Life After Life, Brexit: The Uncivil War and Sherwood.
The BBC had a 25% stake in House Productions at launch, which was increased to full ownership in 2021. Not everything, however, is a BBC commission — The Good Mothers was a Disney+ series and Sebastian Lelio’s 2022 feature The Wonder was made for Netflix.
Danny Cohen-led Access Entertainment, a division of Len Blavatnik’s New York-headquartered investment company Access Industries, has a first-look option to finance development for House.
Future ambitions for the company include building on partnerships and collaborations in the US and expanding on the company’s mentoring scheme, House Residence, for emerging writers.
Key personnel: Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell, co-CEOs; Zoe Edwards, chief operating officer and head of production; Theo Barrowclough, executive producer; James Green, finance director; Harry Dixon, commercial director.
Incoming: Normal People and The Wonder writer Alice Birch is in production on her directorial feature debut Sweetsick, starring Cate Blanchett. Principal photography is underway on Danny Boyle’s Ink about the rise of Rupert Murdoch’s news empire, produced alongside Studiocanal and Media Res, and starring Guy Pearce and Jack O’Connell. For TV, Charlotte Regan (Scrapper) is in post on drama series Mint, to air on the BBC in 2026.
Tessa Ross and Juliette Howell say: “It is a challenging time, and support or intervention to help producers keep this industry alive and thriving is important for Britain culturally and economically, be it the proposed enhanced high-end TV tax credit, regulation around AI and it’s use in the creative industries or grassroots support to give opportunity to new voices.”
Contact: office@houseproductions.com
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