EXCLUSIVE: Screen Media has acquired North American rights to the road-trip comedy The Nan Movie, written by Catherine Tate (The Office) and Brett Goldstein (Ted Lasso), with plans for a day-and-date theatrical and on-demand release this July.
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EXCLUSIVE: Blackstone Publishing has acquired worldwide publishing rights to Sean Scott Hicks’ autobiography, The Devil To Pay: A Mobster’s Road To Perdition. The company’s Director of Media, TV and Film, Brendan Deneen brokered the deal and will now edit the book, while shopping film and TV rights to studios and streamers.
The Devil To Pay tells the story of a man who was born into one of the most notorious crime families in history—The Winter Hill Gang. Hicks, the illegitimate offspring of a secret relationship, was raised around the criminal influences of such infamous mobsters as Whitey Bulger, Steve Flemmi and Howie Winter. By the age of 15, he became fully involved in Boston’s underworld of organized crime figures, primarily the Irish mob, which ultimately led to him serving over 24 years in prison. In his memoir, Hicks details his never-before-shared theories about how the unsolved 1990 Isabella Gardner Museum heist in Boston took place, who was involved, why no one has ever been arrested, and where he believes the surviving artwork may be today.
Hicks was released from a maximum security prison in 2020 as an entirely reformed man. His story illuminates the reality of what it’s really like in the dark, dangerous and insidious places of the world, and what it takes for a person to climb out.
“I’ve been charged with bank robbery, kidnapping, conspiracy, racketeering, theft, extortion, money laundering, black mailing, aggravated assault, and attempted murder. In short, I was a monster. But all that has changed,” said Hicks. “My journey back to humanity is an ongoing and humbling pursuit.”
“When Sean’s autobiography landed in my inbox, I wasn’t sure what to expect. But after reading it, I realized I had something very
EXCLUSIVE: Screen Media has acquired North American rights to the road-trip comedy The Nan Movie, written by Catherine Tate (The Office) and Brett Goldstein (Ted Lasso), with plans for a day-and-date theatrical and on-demand release this July.
Members of a drugs gang which supplied millions of pounds worth of cannabis across the UK have been jailed.
"Jeopardy!" champion Ryan Long insists he didn't throw his final game. Long, a ride-share driver, lasted for 16 "Jeopardy!" games and took home a total of $299,400. He played his last game Monday and lost to Minneapolis meteorologist Eric Ahasic.
Laura Whitmore is back on screens for Love Island 2022 after a long and hotly anticipated wait. The host, 37, has been showing off her trip to Spain as the first episode got under way.This season will be her third year presenting after she began in 2020 and much has been said about how much she is getting paid for it. Previously reports said that Laura was set to earn a huge £500,000 for this series.
SAG-AFTRA announced. Born in Seattle and a graduate of the University of Washington, Scott got her start in news for her local TV and radio station KIRO as a traffic reporter before expanding to on-air reporting, writing, editing and producing.
Shelby Scott, the former president of AFTRA who helped spearhead the 2012 merger of SAG and AFTRA, has died. She was 86. Scott, a longtime television news broadcaster, served as AFTRA’s national president from 1993-2001. She was a member of the “Group for One Union” of SAG and AFTRA leaders who spearheaded the 2012 merger effort and co-led a merger workgroup, one of only ten elected leaders to do so.
NESN, the longtime cable TV home of Major League Baseball’s Boston Red Sox and the National Hockey League’s Boston Bruins, has become the first regional sports network to offer viewers streaming access to live games without a pay-TV subscription.
Kate Bush's hit song Running Up That Hill has suddenly made a massive comeback, soaring through the charts, and it's all thanks to Netflix's Stranger Things.The first part of the fourth season of the show sees a new threat come to town as Vecna uses his mind to reach the teens of Hawkins – killing them as a means to create the gateways from the Upside Down to their world. Luckily, clever Nancy Wheeler discovers a means to pull potential victims out of Vecna's grasp by playing their favourite song as a means to anchor them back in reality.
Manori Ravindran International EditorCannes sensation “EO,” which tells the story of a donkey’s life, has been acquired for North America by Sideshow and Janus Films. The film is the latest collaboration for the U.S.
Many remember Regina Hall from her legendary role as Brenda in the Scary Movie series. Her career didn’t start there, though. She starred in Best Man, and Love and Basketball. Both films are hallmarks of Black American Cinema and she hasn’t stopped since. On the film side, Hall has starred in the Scary Movie, The Best Man and Think Like A Man franchises.
EXCLUSIVE: Dark Dreams Entertainment, the production company owned by Magic Mike and I Am Number Four star Alex Pettyfer, has received backing from an angel investor and has set a three-picture deal with UK, LA and Buenos Aires-based production firm Infinity Hill.
Dancing on Ice winner has opened up about what she earned as a professional skater for the ITV show. Alex Murphy says she earns more working as an influencer on TikTok than she ever did on the ice. Alex joined the ITV skating competition in 2018, competing in three seasons before being let go in 2020.
review out of the festival praised Hansen-Løve’s attention to detail in depicting the challenges of ushering a loved one through an illness of someone near the end of his life. “With ‘One Fine Morning,’ Hansen-Løve turns her attention, and ours, toward the challenges, both tiny and immense, of loving someone through a decline such as this — one that’s not a death, just yet, but rather a disabling event, an experience that is as perplexing for Georg as it is for his family and former students,” Katie Walsh wrote for TheWrap.
K.J. Yossman Horror movie “Two Witches” has been acquired by Arrow Films for distribution in U.S., Canada, U.K.
Rina Sawayama has shared the first single from her forthcoming album ‘Hold The Girl’.Produced by Paul Epworth, ‘This Hell’ is described as a “joyous and roaring slice of pop-meets-country” which is “awash with glam rock riffs and lyrics that are peppered with tongue-in-cheek one-liners shouting out a pantheon of gay icons – Britney [Spears], Whitney [Houston] and Princess Di,” in a press release.“I had so much fun writing ‘This Hell,’ said Sawayama. “The past couple of years I’ve been listening to lots of female country singers and wanted to write a euphoric and tongue in cheek country pop song.
Fast food giant McDonald's has announced a major change in most of its stores for anyone who pays by cash. The restaurant chain says it will be bringing in a new design to 800 of its branches in changes that will take place over the next four years.
EXCLUSIVE: Showtime has announced a new date for the third-season return of City on a Hill starring Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge. The series that also stars Jill Hennessy, Lauren E. Banks and Matthew Del Negro will premiere on Sunday, July 31 at 10 p.m. Eight, one-hour episodes are planned. Watch the new trailer above.
EXCLUSIVE: Hulu’s WeWork director Jed Rothstein is forging landmark Sky documentary Once Upon a Time in Londongrad, exploring 14 mysterious deaths in the UK with alleged connections to Russia over two decades.