The title to this thread is an absoloutely terrible pun that rivals my great friend Ben Davis' offering for a competition in which you win alarm clock radios: "Beddy prize". I sincerely and wholeheartedly apologise.
However, this is a great loss to the fledgling British film industry. I think that Mingella was recently focussing on some good, raw, modern stuff. I liked
Breaking and Entering (controversial comment I know) and noted that Mingella was an executive producer on the excellent Michael Clayton.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7302841.stm