SPI International/FilmBox Unveils Content Production Strategy

SPI International/FilmBox has revealed its content production strategy, which includes a partnership with director and producer Philippe Martinez for the trilogy Mister Mayfair.

The deal with Martinez will see him create four productions for the company. Among these four productions is the gangster comedy musical Mister Mayfair, a trilogy about the ups and downs of former New York gangster turned London nightclub owner, Max Mayfair. In an attempt to escape his past, Mayfair builds himself a brand-new life brimming with music and dance, surrounded by beautiful and talented people.

However, Mayfair’s picture-perfect new life turns upside down when his unknown granddaughter arrives bearing stories of his past as a safe-cracking New York gangster. It stars Armand Assante as the titular character. The trilogy is directed by Martinez and produced in partnership with SPI International, Goldfinch and 365 Flix International.

SPI/FilmBox will hold a market screening for Mister Mayfair at MIPCOM on Monday, October 14, from 2:30 to 3:45 p.m. in Auditorium K, Palais des Festivals. The audience will have the chance to watch 15 minutes from each of the three Mister Mayfair movies.

Martinez said: “Working with Loni and the SPI International family has been an absolutely wonderful experience. I am very excited to collaborate with these talented people again on future projects that exude passion, drama, music and resonate well with the audience.”

The other productions set to emerge from the strategy include: Salvage Marines, a brand-new TV series based on a book by Sean-Michael Argo about a group of soldiers on a militarized deep space operation; The Intergalactic Adventures of Max Cloud, a sci-fi action comedy starring Scott Adkins and Tommy Flanagan that tells the story of a space cruiser that crashes on a planet that is home to an intergalactic prison; and Miss Willoughby and Bentley, a trilogy starring John Rhys Davies and Nathalie Cox as the beautiful professor who solves the mysteries behind crimes with her ex-butler Robert and cheeky but reliable dog, Bentley.