Endeavor Content Inks Global Deals For ‘Conversations With Friends’ With Amazon, HBO; Prentiss Fraser Sets Out TV Sales Strategy

HBO and HBO Max chief programmer Casey Bloys has a key message to get across: the storied pay network and the year-old streamer are both on full throttle creatively with ample funding despite all the noise around corporate mergers.

EXCLUSIVE: Kiana Madeira (Trinkets), Ross Butler (13 Reasons Why) and Matthew Noszka (Star) have been set to star in YA package Perfect Addiction.

Conversations with Friends is set to fill the hole in our hearts left by Normal People and if you’re impatient for it’s arrival, we have good news – filming is well underway!

Manori Ravindran International EditorEndeavor Content continues to bolster its footing in the U.K.

Damian Keogh and Simon Vaughan, formerly of Gentleman Jack producer Lookout Point, and former BBC Worldwide exec Helen Jackson have launched a new UK-based content studio backed by Endeavor Content.

Cartel Pictures, the company behind Shudder’s Creepshow and Syfy’s upcoming Day of the Dead series, is moving into global distribution.

Manori Ravindran International Editor“Creepshow” and “Twelve Forever” producer Cartel Pictures is launching a global distribution outfit, with operations based out of Los Angeles and London.Former Endeavor Content executive Gary Marenzi is building out Cartel Studios International, working alongside former CBS and Viacom executives Giovanni Pedde and Stephen Tague.The new venture will focus on the international distribution and licensing of Cartel’s content, which spans independent movies and

Brendan Fraser has made a big impression in Hollywood, from portraying a man raised by apes to helming an action-film franchise and beyond. The Indiana native, who is a dual citizen in the U.S. and Canada, has also had his fair share of ups and downs in the entertainment industry.

Brendan Fraser is returning to the big screen, and made a recent rare appearance on the red carpet at the Tribeca Film Festival. The beloved actor, who has been cast as the star of director Darren Aronofsky‘s next film, The Whale, looked dramatically different when he attended the No Sudden Move premiere in New York City on June 18. The 52-year-old actor was joined by his fellow co-stars, Stranger Things’ David Harbour, and Jon Hamm, along with celebs like Lily Allen.

EXCLUSIVE: Westbrook Studios SVP, Head of International Film & TV Eli Shibley is exiting Will and Jada Pinkett Smith’s company to launch new production banner Major Content.

Friends is proving it’s still the best show out there.

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CAA completed the sale of a majority stake in its own affiliate production outlet, Wiip, to the Korean studio JTBC to comply with the WGA franchise agreement,Endeavor, which became a publicly traded company in April, is the combination of sports, events, fashion and talent-management IMG and the agency WME. In its first earnings report last week, the company reported $2.4 million in net income for the quarter, besting the $51.4 million the company lost in the same period in 2020.

EXCLUSIVE: Endeavor Content is gearing up to go to market later this summer to raise capital and take WME parent Endeavor’s ownership stake in the affiliated studio down to 20% to comply with the conditions of WME’s February deal with the WGA.