Obamas’ Higher Ground Productions Sets New Slate of Netflix TV, Film Projects

Oscar-winner Halle Berry has signed on to star and executive produce The Mothership, from Netflix and MRC Film. Oscar-nominated Bridge of Spies screenwriter Matthew Charman wrote the script and will be directing the film for his feature directorial debut.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorParamount Pictures has set a new deal with Epix that will give the studio more flexibility with its post-theatrical windowing strategy and allow for thousands of new and library movie titles to be available on the fledgling Paramount Plus streamer.The deal extends Epix’s hold on the all-important first pay TV window for Paramount Pictures releases through the end of 2023. It had been set to expire at the end of 2022.

European Film Market, incorporating industry and press screenings of Berlin Film Festival’s program.

Netflix has released a series of new shows and films for us to get stuck into as we spend another weekend in lockdown.And for those who may have already very nearly completed Netflix, other streaming platforms have a lot to offer too.Netflix, Sky, Amazon, BBC iPlayer and NOWTV have been keeping us entertained during these trying times, as we continue to sink our teeth into something to help us escape from reality.This week, Sky Documentaries broke records for its highly talked about documentary

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“Worth,” a true story drama starring Michael Keaton, has been picked up by Netflix and Higher Ground Productions, which was founded by Barack and Michelle Obama.Directed by Sara Colangelo and written by Max Borenstein, “Worth” stars Keaton as Kenneth Feinberg, the man tasked to oversee the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterThe Barack and Michelle Obama-led shingle Higher Ground has acquired the Michael Keaton film “Worth,” in partnership with their distributor Netflix.Directed by Sara Colangelo (“The Kindergarten Teacher”), the film is adapted from the Kenneth Feinberg memoir “What Is Life Worth?” and follows the lawyer’s process in awarding the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund.Netflix will stream the film in the U.S., Canada, Latin America, Australia, the UK, France, Turkey and

Teamed with Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground, Netflix has acquired North American and other territorial rights to Worth, the Sara Colangelo-directed adaptation of the Kenneth Feinberg memoir What Is Life Worth. Feinberg, who is played by Michael Keaton in the film, was appointed Special Master of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund.

CNN continues to shake up its lineup. On Wednesday, the channel unveiled a new morning and dayside schedule, moving a number of anchors to new roles and hours.

Motörhead live album and concert film has been announced.‘Louder Than Noise… Live in Berlin’ was recorded on December 5, 2012 at the Berlin Velodrom during the band’s ‘Kings of The Road Tour’.“‘Louder Than Noise… Live in Berlin’ is a crowning, definitive statement as to the power the trio had long held,” a summary of the new release explains about the Motörhead line-up at the time (Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister, Phil Campbell and Mikkey Dee).“Theirs was a line-up which had spent decades cracking sound

George C. Wolfe, Dustin Lance Black, and former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground banner are coming together for a biopic of civil rights activistBayard Rustin.

Angelique Jackson “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” director George C. Wolfe has set his return engagement with Netflix, directing “Rustin” for the streamer, and President Barack Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions.The film tells the story of gay, civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, who organized the 1963 March on Washington.

Following the critical acclaim of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, George C. Wolfe and Netflix are reteaming as Wolfe has come on to direct Rustin for Netflix and President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions.

Sony Pictures International Productions is launching Parasomnia Productions, a new label dedicated to genre movies in France. The label’s creation is in association with Marc Missonnier’s Moana Films.

Films“Exit West” is a feature film based on Mohsin Hamid’s critically-acclaimed novel. A love story set against an epic global migration enabled by a supernatural phenomenon, Exit West is the story of two people as they seek a better life together, all the while yearning for a home to which they may never return.

President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s production company Higher Ground Productions has set its latest slate of film and TV projects for Netflix.

EXCLUSIVE: Riot Games — the developer and publisher behind League of Legends — has named former Hulu and Netflix exec Ryan Crosby to head marketing and consumer products at its new entertainment division.