CANNES: A new TV movie – All In The Game - starring Ray Winstone and Roy Marsden and produced by UK's Tightrope Pictures, is being showcased by Granada International at the television event MIPTV in Cannes, France.

This distribution deal is the first between Granada International and Tightrope Pictures. The company has already produced a number of dramas including The Girl in the Café, To The Ends of the Earth and Dad.

All In The Game is a depiction of the modern football industry. Winstone plays Frankie, a larger-than-life football manager who, together with his son, has made a nice life for himself in the game - with fast cars and big houses, but not always secured through “above board” means. But his scams are starting to show through and suspicions are being raised.

His latest and perhaps biggest plan centres around a young new player called Joel. Hugely talented and naive, Joel’s loss of innocence is mirrored in the fall of the game to the corrupt money men. It’s no longer about playing your best and winning or losing. It's all about money and winning at all costs.

Granada International drama head Noel Hedges said, “As a riveting drama about the ‘beautiful game’ and with the World Cup coming up this summer, we’re thrilled to be taking this to MIPTV 2006. It is a top quality piece of UK drama from a great writer with fantastic performances from a highly talented cast.”