Iconic Kids Brand ‘Mr. Men Little Miss’ Sets TV Rights Deal Via Endeavor Content, Sanrio

EXCLUSIVE: Endeavor Content has made a partnership with veteran producer and former studio executive Brad Weston and his Makeready banner. They’ve made a multi-year deal to finance and produce film, TV and documentary content. The deal positions Weston to become a cornerstone content supplier to the global film/TV studio that just generated the Venice prize winner The Lost Daughter and the Hulu hit series Nine Perfect Strangers.

A drug dealer was rumbled when specialist detectives stumbled across his details in EncroChat messages with a key member of St Helens dealing conspiracy.

Masked men stormed a Moscow showing of Agnieszka Holland’s film Mr Jones yesterday night, chanting “Shame on the Motherland” as they took over the stage.

A man has been charged in connection with the alleged murder of Ayrshire dad Sean McKay.

Range Media Partners is expanding with the launch of an International Division, and has hired Oliver Riddle to serve as Head of International Content.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Tina Turner’s wide-ranging deal with BMG in which she has given up her recordings, songs and brand for a reported $50 million, plus Friendly Fires’ anger after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson walked onto the stage at the Conservative Party’s annual conference to the sound of their song, ‘Blue Cassette’.SECTION TIMES01: Tina Turner (00:06:02)02: Friendly Fires (00:22:34)(Timings

Looking back. While it’s been nearly five years since Scott Patterson last stepped into the role of Luke Danes on Gilmore Girls, he’s been able to revisit the role for his “I Am All In” recap podcast.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Endeavor Content is in talks to reteam with the filmmakers behind the hit “Blue Miracle,” in the wake of its success on Netflix, where it ranked second on its opening weekend, and is reported to have resonated in the U.S.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterMike Flanagan has scared up a new Netflix series, with the “Midnight Mass” and “The Haunting of Hill House” creator setting up the new limited series “The Fall of the House of Usher” at the streamer.The series is based on multiple works by Edgar Allan Poe rather than just the titular short story, though exact plot details are being kept under wraps at this time.

Mike Flanagan, creator of The Haunting anthology series, has set up his latest Netflix project.

Beloved children’s book series Mr Men Little Miss is to be adapted for TV as producer-distributor Endeavor Content closes a deal with license holder Sanrio.

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicColdplay has extended its deal with Warner Music Group via a new long-term agreement with Parlophone and Atlantic Records, Variety has learned. The news arrives ahead of the UK band’s ninth studio album, the Max Martin-produced “Music Of The Spheres, which is due out on Oct.

BMG has announced a wide-ranging deal with Tina Turner which will see the music company get involved in her recordings, songs and brand.Like many of the recent big deals with heritage artists, this arrangement is a little bit complicated, requiring you to navigate the differences between copyrights, royalty rights, remuneration rights on the recordings side and writer share royalties on the songs side.Warner Music will still be Turner’s record company, but BMG gets involvement in her recording

EXCLUSIVE: The stories of a sex worker, a poacher hunter, a commando and a modern monk are among those being told in a new docuseries exec produced by Kathryn Bigelow.

EXCLUSIVE: After a bidding battle, IFC Films president Arianna Bocco and FilmNation Entertainment CEO Glen Basner won U.S. rights to the Audrey Diwan-directed drama Happening.

NXIVM, the personal development company founded by Keith Raniere revealed to be a pyramid scheme and cult that forced its female recruits into sexual slavery, survivors Sarah Edmondson and Anthony “Nippy” Ames have chronicled their experiences in the captivating HBO docuseries,, and spoken out against Raniere and other key members involved.

who recently “semi-separated” from Elon Musk – whose $200 billion makes him for now the world’s richest man — was spotted Friday in downtown Los Angeles flipping through Karl Marx’s decidedly anti-capitalistic “Communist Manifesto” in her first public appearance since the split.

EXCLUSIVE: Endeavor Content, Division7 and Film 45 have teamed to produce Unlikely Heroes, a documentary that explores the origins and global mystique of and enduring, emotional fascination with the giant panda. Addison O’Dea is directing the pic, with Endeavor Content financing the film and handling sales in conjunction with Untitled Entertainment.