Endeavor Content’s Film Sales Team Returns To WME As Indie Studio Prepares To Sell Majority Stake

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

Idris Elba loves being a cowboy.

Tencent has acquired a majority stake in Spec Ops: The Line developer Yager Development. The deal was made public via an interview with Yager Development managing director Timo Ullmann (conducted by German outlet gameswirtschaft.de), where funds will be utilised to push forward with production on the Berlin-based studio’s latest title, The Cycle.The first-person shooter released into early access on Steam in August 2019 and will be looking to relaunch based on feedback gathered from the

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

Red Planet Pictures, the UK drama producer behind BBC/PBS series Death In Paradise, has sold a majority stake to Asacha Media Group, the emerging Paris-based production group founded by three former Endemol Shine and Zodiak executives. Financial details were not disclosed.

Up and coming Australian actor Sam Rechner (“Ruby’s Choice”) has landed a significant role in the untitled Steven Spielberg film loosely based on the filmmaker’s youth growing up in Arizona.

When Elise Henderson joined MRC as President of Television in April 2019, the company had one series on the air, Netflix’s Ozark, was about to start production on HBO limited series The Outsider and had just finished a pilot for Hulu’s The Great.

Actress Julia Butters, who broke out in Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” has joined the cast of the untitled Steven Spielberg film loosely based on the filmmaker’s youth growing up in Arizona.

EXCLUSIVE: Once Upon A Time…in Hollywood breakout Julia Butters is set to join Steven Spielberg’s next film at Amblin which is loosely based on the director’s childhood growing up in Arizona. She would play the sister to the young filmmaker at the center of the story, played by Gabriel LaBelle.

Lara Flynn Boyle is giving a rare look into her life.

Desus & Mero are leaving their home sneaker wall behind and heading back into the studio to record their late-night Showtime series.

EXCLUSIVE: Endeavor Content has closed a raft of sales for Normal People’s follow-up series Conversations With Friends, as TV sales chief Prentiss Fraser has spoken in detail for the first time about how she has transformed the company’s distribution regime.

Broadway received the musical equivalent of an engraved invitation last night when Lin-Manuel Miranda joined Jimmy Fallon in a star-packed stage-themed production number on The Tonight Show, with the two, alongside Jimmy Smits, Olga Merediz, Laura Benanti, Kristin Chenoweth and Christopher Jackson, heralding the industry’s imminent return.

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.