Eric Pertilla Named Endeavor Content VP of TV Development and Production

Liesl Copland— a partner atEndeavor Content— has joined Participant media to focus on how the company's slate of projects can bebest placed in the ever-changing global distribution infrastructure. Copland, wholed the Non-Scripted Advisory practice focusing onfeature documentaries and premium non-fiction series atEndeavor, will join Participant in the newly established role of executive vp of content and platform strategy.

If you want to speak truth to power, then write a story. That was Aaron Sorkin’s message at the 2017 WGA Awards when he picked up his Paddy Chayefsky honor.

Former Endeavor Content Partner and EVP Liesl Copland is joining Participant in the newly created role of EVP Content and Platform Strategy.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterParticipant has tapped Endeavor Content veteran Liesl Copland to step into the newly established role of executive vice president of content and platform strategy, where she will be tasked with designing and implementing how the company’s film and TV slate fits into the global distribution infrastructure.Copland will oversee all sales and guide the company’s strategic options for all properties, working cross-functionally with exec VPs of narrative film Anikah McLaren

The good news in Los Angeles this week is that the city’s largest Covid-19 vaccination site at Dodger Stadium will reopen. The bad news is, for the second week in a row, the city has next to no first doses of vaccine to administer.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentAwards season contender “News of the World” is a departure for director Paul Greengrass after such high-adrenaline contempo movies as his Jason Bourne trio and “22 July.” He reunites with “Captain Phillips” star Tom Hanks in Universal’s Western about Captain Kidd, a man delivering the news to towns in Texas, accompanied by the orphan Johanna.

As impeachment manager Rep. Eric Swalwell was presenting chilling security and other video footage during the impeachment trial of Donald Trump on Thursday, Fox News cut away to The Five.

“I think often what can happen with period pieces, as well as Westerns, is they just get kind of fancy—and sometimes, it works for the story. But when you look at pictures from the time period of towns all over the U.S., on the edge of things, things were rough. No one was worrying about having the perfect colored front door.” — David Crank

Eric Church is ready to bring his music on the road again.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorWME and the WGA have finally come to terms on a settlement that will allow WME to resume representing writers after a nearly two-year standoff with the guild.The WGA is expected to announce the pact later today.

Erika Jayne and estranged husband Tom Girardi’s $16 million mansion was burglarized last month. Police received a burglary report late at night on Jan.

Endeavor Content has named Eric Pertilla as vp of television development and production. Pertilla joins Endeavor from CBS All Access, where he was director of original content for two years, with series credits like the Richard Linklater series That Animal Rescue Show, The Twilight Zone, Star Trek: Discovery, The Good Fight and Texas 6.

Eric Pertilla will join Endeavor Content as its new Vice President, Television Development and Production.

Erika Jayne‘s estranged husband, Tom Girardi, has been placed under a temporary conservatorship, with his brother Robert being appointed to take control of his daily activities and personal care on Monday, February 1.

Ninja Theory is ending content development for its multiplayer brawler, Bleeding Edge.The shutdown comes less than a year after the game was released, on March 24, 2020 for the Xbox One and PC. According to a tweet from the game’s official Twitter account, the developer has “decided that there will be no further content updates”.Instead, Ninja Theory will be turning their focus to a number of new projects, such as Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2, Project Mara and The Insight Project.

As many Angelenos are struggling to understand if they qualify for a Covid-19 vaccine — and then struggling to get one — Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti received his first dose on January 21.

EXCLUSIVE: Endeavor Content and Ink Factory are developing and co-producing a series adaptation of Yasmin Angoe’s anticipated debut novel Her Name Is Knight. The seven-figure deal was brokered by UTA in a competitive situation.