Horlick to launch £2m film fund

Bramdean's Nicola Horlick is launching a fund to raise as much as £2m for film development projects.

The fund will come under Horlick’s Derby Street Films umbrella, launched two years ago. The first fund – Derby Street Films I – raised £1.5m to develop film scripts that are close to production, the Telegraph reports. One of the first fund's key projects is based on the memoirs of a 1960s London gangster, which Horlick is discussing with the director Catherine Hardwicke, who directed the first two Twilight films. She is also working with producer Bill Johnson on Arabian Nights, which is set to be directed by Chuck Russell, director of The Scorpion King. In total, Derby Street is wo...