Andy Brunskill’s London-based company is in production on a holiday comedy feature and moving into TV with Amblin
Need to know: SUMS founder and producer Andy Brunskill is not afraid of experimentation, whether it is director Leo Leigh working with actors to create scripts from improvisation, or more radical innovation such as the $40m multiplatform project Phone Book. In the 13 years since the London-based company was founded, SUMS has produced or executive-produced 14 features, including Sweetheart, Lilting, Jet Trash and Sweet Sue.
Key personnel: Andy Brunskill, founder and producer; Bob Benton, Marc Scott, executive producers.
Incoming: Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint is now shooting in north London, a holiday film directed by Jack Spring with a cast including Celia Imrie, John Bradley and Richard E Grant.
Brunskill reteams with Sweet Sue director Leo Leigh and fellow producer Scott O’Donnell for Leigh’s next feature The Mixed-Up Kind. The 1960s-set psychological drama with gothic horror elements has development backing from BBC Film and will shoot in 2026.
Owen Harris (Black Mirror) is attached to direct Incognolio, a “meta-modern” story that will shoot in the US in spring 2026 as a co-production with Nicky Weinstock’s Invention Studios.
Other projects on the slate include Bertrand Desrochers and Rupert Baynham’s Jill Is Revolting with Intermission Film co-producing. SUMS is also in development on Alex Lawther’s feature directorial debut, an adaptation of Rebecca Watson’s book I Will Crash.
The company is moving into TV with character-driven sci-fi Earthlings, which is set up as a co-production with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin, written by Duncan Macmillan and Effie Woods. SUMS also continues to develop its groundbreaking Phone Book project, which Brunskill describes as “not quite television, but not quite film or a game either”.
Andy Brunskill says: “We want to be led by creative passion while figuring out how each project can also make commercial sense. We are driven by great writing and filmmaking, especially when it innovates with form or pushes the medium forward.”
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