AMC Networks Sets Slate Of Digital Originals To Be Produced By In-House Brand Agency In Upfronts Push

Jamie Lang In today’s Global Bulletin, Ang Lee will be honored with this year’s BAFTA Fellowship; Locarno Pro opens the call for its Alliance 4 Development project platform; and Dandelooo’s “The Upside Down River” gets a PR boost as its creator wins the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.AWARDSThe British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has selected two-time Oscar winner and multiple BAFTA-winning director Ang Lee with the Fellowship at this year’s 74th EE British Academy Film Awards,

New Jersey may be the first state to pitch itself as an alternative to Georgia production but won’t be the last amid national furor at the Peach State’s restrictive new voting law. Atlanta’s booming entertainment infrastructure has so many advantages from rebates to infrastructure, yet the state is making itself a liability again less than a year after passing a highly controversial state abortion law (struck down by a federal judge as unconstitutional).

died. She was 67.The reality star died on Thursday at Staten Island University Hospital after contracting COVID-19 and being placed on a ventilator, Angela «Big Ang» Raiola's sister Janine Detore told multiple outlets.

Georgia's potential loss could be New Jersey's gain. At least that's what the Garden State hopes.

AMC Networks, the company behind such cable channel brands as AMC, SundanceTV, We TV and BBC America, wrapped up 2020 with more subscribers for its niche streaming services than expected and is expecting continued growth in the years ahead. Management on a recent earnings conference call also said that streaming would become the company's largest revenue segment by 2025.

Host, a 56-minute-long horror film about six friends who hold a Zoom seance during lockdown, may not have received the same broad attention as, say, the Disney+ hit The Mandalorian. But it struck a chord with subscribers of AMC Networks’ genre streamer Shudder after its summer premiere.

Joe Biden’s administration is preparing to allow for media access to border facilities and will release details in the coming days, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said on Monday, amid criticism over the ability of reporters and photographers to gain entry to facilities housing a surge in migrant children.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorA series of prominent TV-series endings will give AMC Networks an opportunity to seek new beginnings with advertisers.The New York owner of the AMC, IFC and Sundance cable networks will be selling ad inventory in the final cycles of “The Walking Dead,” “Better Call Saul” and “Killing Eve,” all part of the media industry’s annual “upfront” market, when U.S.

A new content partnership between AMC Networks and Complex Networks, billed as an effort to “leverage the strength of food and fandom” will start off with a focus on The Walking Dead.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterLena Headey will star in and executive produce the Spectrum-AMC Networks series “Beacon 23,” which hails from Zak Penn, Variety has learned.The series is described as a sci-fi psychological thriller. It follows two people whose fates become entangled after they find themselves trapped together at the end of the known universe.

Former Game of Thrones star Lena Headey has been tapped as the female lead in Beacon 23, Spectrum Originals and AMC Networks’ psychological thriller series based on the book of the same name by bestselling author Hugh Howey. Headey will also executive produce through her production company, Peephole Productions, as part of her first-look deal Boat Rocker Studios, which co-produces Beacon 23 with Spectrum Originals.

mum on Mother's Day.Allan Bryant Snr penned a heartfelt post to his wife on behalf of his son, also called Allan, who has been missing for eight years.The emotional post said the 23-year-old's mother is 'one in a million' and apologises for her suffering since he vanished, even saying: "I wish I never went out that night as I would still be here." The message, which was shared to the Missing People Scotland Facebook page, said: "Happy Mother's day mum i know your heart is broken living without

AMC Networks and Alliance of Women Directors have partnered to launch High-Octane Episodic Directing Series, a program of five master classes centered on directing actions and thriller content in scripted television.

Amazon Studios has unveiled the start of production on its first Italian original movie. The streaming giant on Tuesday unveiled plans for the young adult comedy Anni da cane(Dog Years), directed by Fabio Mollo (South Is Nothing) and written by Mary Stella Brugiati and Alessandro Bosi.

Veteran communications executives Eric Green and Sunny Jenkins have partnered with marketing and creative guru Wally Hasselbring to launcha new brand agency. They're calling the firm The Right Now and duties will be split like this: Green is overseeing entertainment, Jenkins is leading the brand division and Hasselbring is managing creative and digital.

Rosamund Pike stores her many awards in a very unusual place.

Tyler Posey is “technically not sober” anymore. The ‘Teen Wolf’ alum celebrated two months of sobriety in October last year after quitting both alcohol and smoking marijuana but has now said he’s “started coming back” to the substances again, although he’s trying to be healthier with his consumption.