Nest Productions Inks Production Deal With Greenred Media (EXCLUSIVE)

EXCLUSIVE: From dark to light – Piv Bernth, one of the architects of the Nordic Noir genre, is working on Feelings & Things, a comedy-drama set in a shopping mall. Bernth and her Apple Tree Productions banner are reuniting with Ditte Hansen and Louise Mieritz on the project, which they hope to shoot next year.

Selome Hailu In 2015, Netflix acquired the indie horror film “Circle,” which saw 50 strangers trapped in a room and forced to decide who would be the one survivor through a series of votes and debates about the worth of each human life. Nearly a decade later, with the “12 Angry Men”-inspired project having become something of a cult hit, two producers of the film have reunited to create a sequel, “Circles.” Per the official logline, “17 years after being pawns in a cruel game of psychological warfare, the survivors of an invasion face a new threat.” Michael Nardelli, who starred in “Circle” as lone survivor Eric, and Brent Stiefel are re-teaming to produce the sequel.

EXCLUSIVE: Rolin Jones, developer, executive producer and showrunner of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire, has signed a new multi-year overall with AMC Studios, which is behind the gothic horror drama. This is an encouraging sign for the future of the series, which is currently airing its second season on AMC and AMC+.

Ryan Thomas celebrated his 40th birthday in style with an epic weekend away to Portugal with his family and closest friends.The ex-Coronation Street star enjoyed a booze-fuelled three-day getaway alongside many other famous faces. Ryan's fiancée Lucy Mecklenburgh, 32, organised the entire trip for him to mark his milestone birthday.The couple, who share Roman, four, and Lilah, 17 months, were joined by Ryan's famous twin brothers Adam and Scott, 35, as well as Adam's wife Caroline, and their two children Teddy and Elsie-Rose.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Eurozoom, a leading French distributor for Japanese animation, has forged a strategic partnership with major French animation producer Special Touch Studios, led by founder and CEO Sebastien Onomo. “We both share the same passion for animation and want to tell bold stories with a particular attention to professional diversity,” said Eurozoom’s CEO-Founder Amel Lacombe, who added that they were jointly working on a six-animation feature lineup. Leading the pack is “Melvile,” directed by Romain Renard and Fursy Teyssier.

EXCLUSIVE: Shawn Ryan, whose thriller drama The Night Agent was the most watched TV series of 2023 on Netflix, has signed a big, four-year overall deal with the streamer, sources tell Deadline. The prolific creator, executive producer and showrunner landed at Netflix in a competitive situation, with his current studio home, Sony Pictures TV, NBCUniversal as well as Warner Bros. TV among those who pursued him, I hear. The pact with Netflix will start after Ryan’s current overall deal with Sony TV expires at the end of October.

EXCLUSIVE: After a long run at NBCUniversal, writer, producer and director Alan Yang has signed a big overall deal with Warner Bros. Television Group. Under the multi-year pact, he will develop and produce new TV projects exclusively for the studio.

Sasha Leigh Henry, who created Canadian series Bria Mack Gets a Life, is expanding her business with New Metric Media.

Coronation Street's Mollie Gallagher has bravely shared her ADHD diagnosis with her followers, expressing relief and happiness. On her Instagram, Mollie disclosed that she had suspected the condition "for years" and now feels "finally happy" as her life experiences are beginning to "make sense now."

Made in Chelsea star Louise Thompson has opened up further about giving birth to her now two-year-old son, Leo, and harrowingly revealed she thought she had died on the operating table and woken up in a morgue. Speaking to Giovanna Fletcher on her Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast, Louise emotionally gave further details about her birthing experience, which involved an emergency caesarean section and subsequent PTSD and psychosis. Louise told Giovanna: “When it finally was over, I then don't remember anyone, I didn't recognise anyone in the room.

EXCLUSIVE: Horror filmmakers Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill have signed a first look deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment to produce feature films for Screen Gems under their Crooked Highway banner.

Ruby Adler has been a part of the Made In Chelsea cast since she made her debut in August 2020, and while she absolutely loves filming the Channel 4 show, admitted the latest series was her most emotional yet.The just-turned-29-year-old said it was "one of the hardest series to film" with some "really testing times" that involved her ex Reza Amiri-Garroussi. We're no strangers to the explosive drama that has unfolded in the SW10 borough since Made In Chelsea first aired in 2011 - from tense dinner parties, thrown drinks, friendship fallouts and spiralling rumours.

William Earl Allen Media Group has struck a FAST channel distribution pact with Amazon that will make its TV stations and Weather Channel en Español available for free via Amazon’s Fire TV and Echo Show devices. The deal covers 21 Allen Media Broadcasting-owned TV stations including outlets in Honolulu (KITV), Flint, Mich. (WJRT), Fort Wayne, Ind.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor OpenAI announced pacts with two more media companies — Vox Media and The Atlantic — to license their content for the ChatGPT artificial-intelligence chatbot. Under the deals, the companies also will work with OpenAI on a range of product-development initiatives.

Katcy Stephan Rudy Reyes and New War Productions have signed with CAA for representation. Reyes is a former Force Reconnaissance Marine, American conservationist, writer, actor and motivational speaker.

Made In Chelsea star Nicola Hughes has told fans of her "awful" trip to A&E with her one year old daughter, Penelope. The TV personality, who shares baby Penelope with her husband Charlie Tupper, moved to Spain last year, where she's been enjoying the sunny weather. However, on Friday, May 24, she took to Instagram to share details of her first experience of visiting hospital with her little one.

Katcy Stephan Raimi Productions, the genre-focused company run by Sam Raimi and Zainab Azizi, has signed a first-look film and television deal with Ara Keshishian and Petr Jákl’s development and financing company ZQ Entertainment. The deal extends the long-standing relationship between the two companies, which most recently collaborated on the upcoming thriller “Locked,” directed by David Yaroveksy and starring Bill Skarsgård and Anthony Hopkins, and the horror-thriller “Don’t Move,” which was acquired by Netflix earlier this month.

ESPN and TNT Sports have reached a 5-year sublicensing deal that will see the Warner Bros. Discovery subsidiary carry select College Football Playoff games from ESPN.

Sophie Habboo had the perfect surprise for her husband Jamie Laing to celebrate their first wedding anniversary.The Made in Chelsea star made a romantic gesture, which left both her and Jamie in tears. Sophie, 30, struggled to hold in her emotions as she tearfully revealed to Jamie, 35, that she has legally changed her name and is officially now Mrs Sophie Laing. She shared the surprise on an episode of their joint podcast, Newlyweds, and penned a heartfelt poem about her husband to break the news.

Alex Ritman A24‘s growing range of books, including its much-loved screenplay collection, will soon be available in physical stores around the world for the first time following a deal with independent publisher Mack. The publishing partnership — the first of its kind between a studio and a publishing house — will see A24’s existing line of film, TV, and creator-driven books sold in bookstores globally from September, distributed via Mack’s network in the U.S., Europe and Asia.