A giant fireball has erupted in St Petersburg with 'huge' flames spotted following a blast in the Russian city.
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EXCLUSIVE: My Daughter’s Killer producer Rogan Productions has signed Passion Pictures’ Nicholas Franklin as Head of Production. Franklin replaces the departing Viv Steele, who is exiting after seven years.
Across a two-decade career, Franklin has worked on the likes of Netflix’s Catching Killers, the BBC’s David Harewood: Psychosis and Me and Channel 4’s Charlie Hebdo: Three Days That Shook Paris.
He joins Soleta and James Rogan’s outfit that is in a period of growth, having won a string of commissions during the past 12 months and recently expanded to Scotland.
The company most recently made Netflix’s My Daughter’s Killer and the likes of Made in the 80s: The Decade that Shaped Our World, and is currently working on a BBC documentary following Strictly Come Dancing winner Rose Ayling-Ellis. Past credits include the BAFTA-nominated Black Power: A British Story of Resistance, Putin: A Russian Spy Story andFreddie Mercury: The Final Act, which was bought by The CW.
Soleta Rogan hailed Franklin’s “truly impressive experience, vision and ambition making him a welcome addition to the senior leadership team.”
Franklin added: “I have always been impressed by the breadth and quality of the output at Rogan Productions. I am looking forward to joining the teams in London and Glasgow and being a key part in the next stage of the company’s growth and development.”
A giant fireball has erupted in St Petersburg with 'huge' flames spotted following a blast in the Russian city.
Lily Collins, Charlie McDowell and Alex Orlovsky have partnered to launch Case Study Films, a production company that will look to tell compelling and outside-of-the-box stories through a commercial eye in both film and television.
Production expenditure on Australian scripted content reached an all-time high of A$2.29BN ($1.47BN) in the 2021-2022 period to June, according to Screen Australia’s annual drama report, with a record A$1.51BN spent on Australian titles and A$777M on foreign productions.
Netflix has landed feature rights to Seesaw Monster — a 2019 book by Kotaro Isaka, whose novel Maria Beetle was recently adapted into the David Leitch actioner Bullet Train for Sony, starring Brad Pitt.
Anne Hathaway and Salma Hayek Pinault are teaming up to star in and produce action-comedy “Seesaw Monster.” Netflix acquired the rights to the book by Kotaro Isaka (the author of “Bullet Train”), with Olivia Milch (“Ocean’s Eight”) attached to adapt the screenplay.While plot details are being kept under wraps, Hathaway and Hayek Pinault will play enemies forced to work together in an action comedy two-hander. Joining the pair on the producing side are Akiva Goldsman and Gregory Lessans for Weed Road Pictures, and “Bullet Train” producers Ryosuke Saegusa and Yuma Terada for CTB Inc.
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is entering into a strategic partnership with Japanese production company The Seven, owned by leading broadcaster TBS Holdings, which will produce multiple original live-action titles for the streamer over the next five years.
France’s Gaumont and Albertine Productions have announced they are developing a French feature film version of Robin Hood.
Roku has welcomed Netflix into the ad streaming market.
Tomorrow, we hear is Courtenay Valenti’s last day as Warner Bros. President of Production and Development after we told you first that she was exiting the Burbank, CA lot after a 33-year run.
EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker David E. Talbert and his wife and producing partner Lyn Sisson-Talbert have appointed veteran entertainment exec Jim Miller as Head of Film at their production company Golden Alchemy Entertainment, at the same time bringing on Tessie Goodrich as Vice President of Development.
EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker David E. Talbert and his wife and producing partner Lyn Sisson-Talbert have appointed veteran entertainment exec Jim Miller as Head of Film at their production company Golden Alchemy Entertainment, at the same time bringing on Tessie Goodrich as Vice President of Development.
In a bid to adapt to the ever-changing content market, Thessaloniki International Film Festival’s industry component, Agora, is unveiling a slew of new initiatives as it gears up for its 63rd edition.
Netflix stopped production of Bad Crimes and canceled the animated series before it even starts streaming.
EXCLUSIVE: The $4.4 billion grossing producer of several Warner Bros. DC movies as well as the highest grossing horror franchise of all-time at $2 billion, The Conjuring, has re-upped with the Burbank, CA lot for another three years.
Netflix is moving forward with its feature film adaptation of the popular Black Samurai novels as it has tapped Chad Stahelski to direct and Leigh Dana Jackson to adapt. Stahelski will also produce along with Jason Spitz and Alex Young for 87Eleven Entertainment as well as John Schoenfelder and Russell Ackerman for Addictive Pictures.
The first fully in person Mipcom for three years is winding down as thousands of tired, fuzzy-headed but happy delegates make their way to Nice airport or jump on trains to Paris. The market was set to a backdrop of an industry in a deep state of flux, as new buyers establish themselves and more seasoned ones react and adapt. Below are just some of the key takeaways from three action-packed days on the Croisette. One thing is for sure, while making TV is not the easiest business, the 10,896 attendees RX reported to have attended were simply delighted to be back together in person (last year’s restriction-laden Mipcom was hybrid and attendance figures comparatively low) and the atmosphere was the buzziest for many years, especially when the coffee machines were locked away and the alcohol started flowing. Read on.
EXCLUSIVE: Following the critical acclaim of his Netflix western The Harder They Fall, Jeymes Samuel’s follow-up, The Book of Clarence, has gained momentum with a new producing partner and two major stars to lead the ensemble. Sources tell Deadline that Legendary has acquired the BAFTA Award winner’s next film project with LaKeith Stanfield (Atlanta)and Omar Sy (Lupin) set to star.
Meet any high-profile Indian director or producer these days, and the talk is all about bibles, writers rooms and showrunners, rather than making films. Driving down Mumbai’s main artery, the Western Express Highway, most of the billboards are promoting new premium drama series from Prime Video, Netflix and Disney+ Hotstar, rather than the latest Bollywood release.
House Republican Conference chairwoman Elise Stefanik of New York called on Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to resign amid new revelations in the agency’s "whipping" scandal. Stefanik hopped on a video interview with Fox News Digital on Thursday, where she made the call for Mayorkas to step down as DHS secretary when asked whether he should resign amid the new information on the Border Patrol "whipping" allegations.