EXCLUSIVE: Matt Passmore (The Glades) and Floriana Lima (A Million Little Things) are set as the leads of Blank Slate, NBC’s drama pilot from Dean Georgaris, John Fox, Davis Entertainment and Universal Television.
09.03.2022 - 21:49 / variety.com
Andrew Wallenstein President and Chief Media AnalystFox Corp. isn’t exactly the first name that comes to mind when the inescapable subject of Web3 comes up, but Rupert Murdoch’s company is playing more aggressively in this innovative space than any other traditional media firm.The company’s year-old division Blockchain Creative Labs has been experimenting with the disruptive potential of digital ownership for properties as varied as “The Masked Singer,” WWE and, unexpectedly, SXSW.
BCL will have a big presence at this week’s Austin-based festival to show off its work, featuring a Web3 experience devoted to Dolly Parton, called welcometodollyverse.com.Listen to the podcast here:“We think Fox, as the place that taught Americans how to text 30 years ago with ‘American Idol,’ was the right place to teach Americans what a digital asset is and how to own it,” said BCL CEO Scott Greenberg on the latest episode of the Variety podcast “Strictly Business.”Greenberg, who is also CEO and co-founder of the Fox-owned animation division Bento Box Entertainment, is joined on the podcast by BCL president Melody Hildebrandt, who is also the chief information security officer at Fox, to discuss how they’ve built an NFT-focused unit within the conglomerate.“Another reason Fox was really set up to go after this in a serious way was by some of the decisions we didn’t go after,” said Hildebrandt. “Fox is not trying to go after the streaming wars, for example.
That has freed up a lot of brain space for us to actually leapfrog what we really believe is going to be the future in Web3.”“Strictly Business” is Variety‘s weekly podcast featuring conversations with industry leaders about the business of media and entertainment. A new episode debuts
.EXCLUSIVE: Matt Passmore (The Glades) and Floriana Lima (A Million Little Things) are set as the leads of Blank Slate, NBC’s drama pilot from Dean Georgaris, John Fox, Davis Entertainment and Universal Television.
Now that’s how you make a statement! Julia Fox hit the red carpet at the Vanity Fair Oscars Party on Sunday, March 27, wearing a dress that made celebs and fans alike do a double-take.
Prince William released a landmark statement reflecting on the future governance of the Caribbean nations as he and Kate Middleton’s tour of the Caribbean came to an end on Saturday.
A leading Nigeria publication have expressed their surprise over the decision to substitute Joe Aribo in their gritty 0-0 draw with Ghana.
EXCLUSIVE: 1091 Pictures is partnering with NBA champ Matt Barnes and filmmaker Joslyn Rose Lyons to take a deeper dive into the lives of athletes after their pro careers.
Talk about a deep sleep! Rachel Bilson snapped a morning mirror selfie on Friday, March 25, with her bra hooked around her stomach.
Marta Balaga The conditions are set for an increase in scripted adaptations, argued Tim Westcott of research organization Omdia at Series Mania.According to the research opening the “With Local Content Going Global, What’s the Future of Scripted Formats?” session on Wednesday, the U.S. has been the biggest and “most enthusiastic” buyer of scripted remakes between 2010 and 2022, with South Korea, Turkey and France also following suit.
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorYuga Labs, the company that created the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection, has raised $450 million in funding that gives it a post-money valuation of $4 billion, the company announced.The round was led by venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z crypto fund. Other investors joining the round included game studio Animoca Brands and its subsidiary The Sandbox; investment firms LionTree, Sound Ventures and Thrive Capital; and crypto players FTX and MoonPay.The company said it will use the funds to “scale its rapidly growing team, attract the best talent across creative, engineering and operations functions, and for joint ventures and partnerships it has planned.” On Friday, the company teased a new metaverse project, dubbed Otherside, designed to integrate avatars from other NFT projects.
At least four people have died after a car ploughed into a crowd during a carnival in Belgium.
Naman Ramachandran Popular game show format “Fear Factor” is returning for a new season to Belgium’s SBS-owned commercial TV channel Play4, Banijay Belgium, a Banijay Benelux label has revealed. Belgian comedian Alex Agnew is the host of the show where duos face a series of terrifying challenges to win a cash prize, including tightrope walking between skyscrapers or being submerged underwater in a cage.
Kill Bill: Vol. 1.Among the upcoming lineup of nearly three dozen featured events include: The signature Blossom Kite Festival, offering a variety of competitions and demonstrations taking flight from the grounds of the Washington Monument as well as other area parks or virtually (3/26).Cherry Night, a one-night-only celebration of D.C.
Naman Ramachandran Future Studios and women’s destination Marie Claire are teaming for digital true crime series “On the Record with Marie Claire.”The seven-part anthology series will feature female-focused stories of women seeking justice, told from the viewpoint of a central character directly linked to the case in question. Each episode, which is 7–12 minutes long, features archive film and stills and evidence from an individual case, alongside Marie Claire’s storytelling and investigative reporting.
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium are opening their doors to Ukrainian refugees.
EXCLUSIVE: Redbox Entertainment has signed North American rights to Verdi Productions’ action-crime film Johnny & Clyde, starring Avan Jogia (Zombieland: Double Tap), Ajani Russell (Betty), Tyson Ritter (Preacher) and Megan Fox (The Expendables 4).
Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentKino Lorber has acquired North American rights to “On the Edge,” a Belgian crime thriller by Giordano Gederlini (“Les Miserables”) from Le Pacte. The deal was negotiated by Kino Lorber senior VP Wendy Lidell and Le Pacte’s head of sales Camille Neel out of the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema market hosted by Unifrance and the Film at Lincoln Center.“On The Edge” marks the sophomore outing of Gederlini, who co-wrote Ladj Ly’s Oscar-nominated film “Les Miserables.” The gritty and twisty noir is set in Brussels, where Leo, a Spanish metro driver, saw his estranged son right before he fell onto the rails and died.
Marvel movie. You’re working long hours and barely have time to shop for groceries or get in any exercise, let alone do yardwork or socialize.
The Dr. Oz Show spinoff The Good Dish has been canceled after one partial season in national syndication, sources tell Deadline. The Good Dish replaced the long-running The Dr. Oz Show, which ended on January 14 amid host Mehmed Oz’s Senate run in Pennsylvania.
Canneseries 2022 has unveiled its Long Form Competition finalists, with Academy Award winners Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Punishment and Jean-Xavier De Lestrade’s The Inside Game, Seeds of Wrath featuring alongside the likes of Zentropa’s The Dreamer – Becoming Karen Blixen.