‘Io Capitano’ Distributor Cohen Media Group Promotes Robert Aaronson To Executive Vice President

K.J. Yossman Fremantle has completed its acquisition of global production studio Asacha Media Group, the company confirmed today. Fremantle acquired the group from founding partners, managers and funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management Fremantle’s group COO and CEO for continental Europe Andrea Scrosati spearheaded the acquisition.

Fremantle Completes Asacha Deal

Christine Vachon and her Killer Films have joined Walden Media and Grade A Entertainment to produce “The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise,” a feature adaptation of author Dan Gemeinhart’s award-winning novel of the same name. The middle grade novel was published in 2019 by Henry Holt and Co. to critical acclaim and numerous awards, including the 2019 Parents’ Choice Award Gold Medal.

Hyphenate Media Group co-founders Cris Abrego and Eva Longoria have set the company’s executive leadership team. Jada Miranda will serve as President of Television, Karla Pita Loor as Chief Strategy Officer and Alex Chang as Chief Operating Officer. All executives will report to Abrego and Longoria.

William Earl Hyphenate Media Group, the production venture and holding company launched in October by Eva Longoria and Cris Abrego with backing from Banijay, has set its leadership team with the appointments of three senior executives. Jada Miranda, formerly of STX Entertainment, has been named president of television for the Los Angeles-based company headed by actor/director/producer Longoria and the veteran producer and TV executive Abrego.

Kim Kardashian and Emma Roberts share a kiss in the trailer for the second part of American Horror Story: Delicate.

We’ve been praying to the American Horror Story gods for months now, and they just delivered! Kim Kardashian made her highly anticipated debut in the franchise with part one of Season 12 that aired beginning last September. And now, part two of AHS: Delicate is upon us!!

Kim Kardashian and Emma Roberts. Kardashian, 43, reprises her role on the Ryan Murphy-created show as Siobhan Corbyn, a best friend and publicist to Roberts’ Anna Victoria Alcott, an actress trying to become a mother after multiple failed attempts of IVF. “What would you give up for it?” Kardashian asks Robert while the duo are in a crowded room.

It’s looking bleak for Anna in her pursuit of motherhood in Part Two of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s American Horror Story: Delicate. FX has released the first trailer for the final episodes of the 12th installment of the anthology series, and not surprisingly, it features some shocking scenes.

NBCUniversal Media Group has promoted veteran executive David Pietrycha to the newly created position of Chief Business Officer, reporting into the group’s chairman, Mark Lazarus. 

Rhys Ifans (The King’s Man), Olivia Cooke (House of Dragon), Paapa Essiedu (The Lazarus Project), Mia McKenna-Bruce (How to Have Sex) and Antonia Thomas (The Good Doctor) have all joined new comedy-horror feature The Scurry from Eternal Beauty helmer Craig Roberts. 

Danny Cohen, executive producer of Jonathan Glazer‘s Holocaust drama The Zone Of Interest, has said he “fundamentally disagrees” with the director’s politically-orientated Oscars acceptance speech. 

K.J. Yossman “The Zone of Interest” executive producer Danny Cohen has become the first member of the film’s production team to publicly address director Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars speech, saying “I just fundamentally disagree with Jonathan.” While accepting the Academy Award on Sunday evening for best international film, Glazer delivered a set of pre-written remarks in which he compared his Holocaust film to the current conflict in Gaza.

EXCLUSIVE: Nowhere Special by director Uberto Pasolini (The Full Monty, Still Life), and starring James Norton (Bob Marley: One Love, Little Women, Happy Valley), is set for theatrical release on April 26.

Scholastic Corp. is making a $186 million investment in children’s entertainment mainstay 9 Story Media Group.

Oppenheimer blew up the 96th Academy Awards, taking a dominating seven trophies including Best Picture on Sunday at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood. Poor Things was next with four, and The Zone of Interest was the only other film to score multiple statuettes.

Meredith Woerner Deputy Editor, Variety.com Andy Cohen — executive producer of Bravo‘s “Real Housewives” franchise and the host of its nightly talk show “Watch What Happens Live” — has fired back against allegations made in a lawsuit by Leah McSweeney, a former cast member of “The Real Housewives of New York City.” In a letter sent on March 6 to McSweeney’s representation from his attorney, Orin Snyder, Cohen calls her allegations “false, offensive and defamatory.” On Feb. 27, McSweeney filed a complaint against Cohen, Bravo and NBCUniversal alleging that Cohen fostered a “rotted workplace culture,” as she told the New York Times in an interview.

Two-time Grammy Award winning singer and songwriter Gloria Gaynor will be the subject of a new biopic under the Robin Roberts Presents banner for Lifetime.

EXCLUSIVE: India-based animation producer Toonz Media House and New York’s Driver Studios have teamed for 3D-animated kids series The Blahs.

Emergency services were seen swarming Salford Quays on Tuesday afternoon (February 27) after a person was hit by a tram.