Creative UK's Creative Growth Finance (CGF) has made a £500,000 investment in Cantilever Media to help drive the indie's next growth phase.

Viva Pictures Distribution, Cantilever Media, and HarperCollins Productions have entered a three-title co-pro deal for book-based films aimed at a four-quadrant audience.

U.K. indie Cantilever Media, behind the animated franchise The Amazing Maurice, has set a joint venture with sales and financing outfit Architect for animated family films.