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EXCLUSIVE: Steve Michaels’ Asylum Entertainment Group is expanding its portfolio.
The production group has acquired Texas Crew Productions, the Austin-based producer behind Travel Channel’s recent reboot of Ripley’s Believe It or Not! and Oxygen’s Killer Relationship with Faith Jenkins.
No financial terms were disclosed.
It is the most recent deal for Michaels’ company, which he bought back from Legendary in 2018 and restored the brand name in 2019, following the acquisition of Collins Avenue from Kew Media in 2020.
Texas Crew will sit under the Asylum Entertainment banner alongside unscripted producer The Content Group, scripted division Asylum TV and audio company Audity.
Other Texas Crew productions include History’s The 44th President: In His Own Words and ESPN 30 for 30 docs Brian and the Boz and Phi Slama Jama.
The acquisition is designed to “supercharge” Texas Crew’s development slate.
Texas Crew executives, including CEO David Karabinas, Chief Creative Officer and Head of Production Brad Bernstein, President & Executive Producer Chip Rives, and Development Director Rick Cikowski will work alongside AEG CEO Michaels as well as Jodi Flynn, President of The Content Group.
“Aligning and collaborating under the immense umbrella of Asylum Entertainment Group gives us the bandwidth to be even more rigorous, innovative and forward-thinking with our projects than ever before,” said Karabinas. “Steve and Jodi and their entire creative team share our DNA. We have the same vision and goals and value hard work and the creative process.”
“As we continue to amplify our global footprint through acquisitions and joint ventures, we look at companies whose profiles match our mission and business culture,” said Michaels. “David and the team
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CBS News is partnering with the Texas Tribune Festival, the annual event that focuses on news and civic engagement.
Dream Perfect Regime) have announced that they are postponing the Texas leg of their forthcoming 2022 Regime Tour.On September 14, concert organiser Kohai published a statement announcing DPR’s forthcoming show in Austin, initially scheduled for September 15, will not be pushing through after DPR IAN and DPR LIVE tested positive for COVID-19. The two members reported experiencing symptoms following a show in Hollywood, Florida.At the time, Kohai announced that ticket holders for the Houston and Dallas shows, set to take place on September 16 and 17 respectively, will receive real-time status updates while both members’ conditions were being monitored.[REGIME TOUR]Notice regarding the September 15, 2022 show in Austin.
With Gavin Newsom currently holding a 27-point lead in the race for California’s top office, the Golden State governor — who continues to deny national political ambitions — is again leveraging his campaign war chest to confront Republican governors in their own states.
California Governor Gavin Newsom is calling for an investigation into whether federal laws were broken in the actions by Texas and Florida to send migrants to other states, the most recent being Gov. Ron DeSantis’ who sent two planes to Martha’s Vineyard, MA.
Michaela Zee editor GKIDS has acquired the North American distribution rights to “Unicorn Wars,” ahead of the adult animated film’s U.S. premiere at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas. The news was announced Thursday. Set during an ancestral war between teddy bears and unicorns, the horror-comedy film follows Bluet and Tubby, teddy bear brothers who are polar opposites to each other. When their time at teddy bear bootcamp leads to a combat tour in the Magic Forest, Bluet and Tubby’s complicated history and tense relationship could affect the fate of the war, including whether the teddy bears will fulfill the prophecy and usher in a new era. “Unicorn Wars” is directed and written by illustrator Alberto Vázquez. Prior to this deal, GKIDS distributed Vázquez’s Goya Award-winning feature “Birdboy: The Forgotten Children” and animated short “Decorado.”
In his latest political stunt to draw attention to an influx of illegal immigrants crossing the Mexican border into his state, Texas governor Greg Abbott sent two busloads of Venezuelan migrants to Washington, D.C.’s Naval Observatory Thursday morning, just outside Vice President Kamala Harris’ home. In what appears to be an organized plan between “Fox & Friends” and the buses’ arrival around 6:45 a.m. local time, Fox News reporter Griff Jenkins was on the scene to interview the non-English-speaking migrants as they exited the bus.
Tommy Lee has responded to to the criticism he’s faced for asking Mötley Crüe fans to expose themselves at recent live shows.Last month saw the drummer post a full-frontal nude photograph of himself to his social media profiles. Later, Lee explained during a gig in San Antonio, Texas that he’d decided to share the image while he was “on a motherfucking bender”.“I got fucking sideways as fuck and got naked and posted pictures of my dick,” he told the audience.
Fox heads to the heart of Texas on Sunday night, blending country music with family squabbles and raw ambition in its new primetime drama “Monarch.”Debuting the first of its two-episode premiere right after the Fox NFL doubleheader, “Monarch” follows the Roman family members as they strive to maintain their first family of country music status, established by matriarch Dottie Cantrell Roman (Susan Sarandon) and Albie Roman (Trace Adkins). “So the original inspiration was I thought, ‘What if I reimagined the Romanov dynasty as a family of country stars in Austin, Texas?’” executive producer and creator Melissa London Hilfers told TheWrap of the show’s inspiration. “And I wanted it to be a big, opulent, multi-generational drama.”The show focuses on all of the Romans and their associates, but opens not only with Sarandon’s Dottie and Adkins’ Albie hosting a press conference, but with a focus on eldest daughter, Nicky Roman (“Pushing Daisies” alum Anna Friel).
$229 billion — in Texas, the mom-of-three revealed she has to “sleep in the garage.”“You can’t have a fancy house near a rocket site,” she told The Times.Back in April, Elon himself revealed he doesn’t “even own a home right now,” and stays “at friend’s places.”Musk later tweeted that his primary residence is a rental from SpaceX, worth $50,000. What’s more, the residence is conveniently near the company’s Texas location. Musk began unloading his real estate portfolio last summer after revealing he would give up all tangible assets to devote his life “to Mars and Earth.” “I am selling almost all physical possessions.
Taylor Swift continues to inspire University students across the United States. This time the University of Texas at Austin will be adding an exciting English course to their curriculum, titled ‘The Taylor Swift Songbook.’Just in time for Fall 2022 semester, students will enjoy Taylor’s work, while they learn about famous poets, including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Wyatt, Coleridge, Keats, Dickinson and Plath.Professor Elizabeth Scala will be using the singer-songwriter’s songbook and the cultural context, to start class participation and debates.
Mötley Crüe's Tommy Lee wanted fans at the band's concert in Texas to know there was a reason he posted a NSFW Instagram photo. The famous guitarist shared to his Twitter account a video of him addressing the controversy. Community guidelines on Instagram clearly outline its policy against nudity — which Lee broke by sharing a since-deleted image of his genitals.
Producers of the global theatrical hit Hamilton say they will donate all damages paid by Texas’ Door McAllen Church for two unlicensed and lyrically altered performances to the South Texas Equality Project, a coalition of LGBTQIA+ organizations.
refuted. The Texas house of worship that produced an unauthorized and highly religious version of the Broadway sensation “Hamilton” was ordered to pay an undisclosed amount in damages Tuesday after receiving a cease-and-desist letter.Pastor Roman Gutierrez also issued an apology, admitting that the Door McAllen Church did not receive permission from the producers or creators of the show to put on “Hamilton” — nor did they get Lin-Manuel Miranda’s blessing to alter the text, Entertainment Weekly reported.