PlayStation lays off 90 employees as part of “global transformation”

Naman Ramachandran PBS Distribution will be the North American distribution partner for West Road Pictures and All3Media International series “Ridley.” It stars Adrian Dunbar (“Line of Duty”) as Detective Inspector Alex Ridley, who has retired from the police after 20 years of dedicated service. Now working in a consultancy role, Ridley resumes his partnership with his former protégée, DI Carol Farman (Bronagh Waugh, “Unforgotten”), when she turns to him for help on a complex murder investigation.The series, which consists of four two-hour episodes, is currently filming across Northern England, and will premiere on ITV in the U.K.

PBS Boards Adrian Dunbar Detective Drama ‘Ridley’ For North American Distribution

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. and New Line have joined Horizon, the epic period Western that Kevin Costner is directing, starring in and producing through his Territory Pictures. Costner co-wrote the script with Jon Baird,. Costner and Baird recently teamed on the script for another future project, The Explorers Guild. Horizon will put the Yellowstone star back behind the camera for the first time since 2003’s critically acclaimed Open Range. Horizon has been a longtime passion project for Costner, and one that has the sweep of his 1990 epic Dances With Wolves, the film that won Best Picture and Best Director Oscars for Costner among seven wins out of a dozen Oscar nominations.

Naman Ramachandran The BBC has acquired U.K. free-to-air rights of high profile crime drama “Tokyo Vice” (8 x 60’), which has a pilot episode directed by Michael Mann, from Endeavor Content. The BBC has second window rights for the U.K.

Elvis Presley‘s back catalogue.Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) and Authentic Brands Group (ABG), a global brand owner, marketing and entertainment company and owner of Elvis Presley Enterprises, have today (April 12) announced a deal over the late icon’s worldwide hits.Excluding the UK, it will cover the likes of classic hits such as ‘Can’t Help Falling In Love’, ‘It’s Now Or Never’, ‘Memories’, ‘A Little Less Conversation’, ‘Don’t Be Cruel’, ‘Jailhouse Rock’, ‘Love Me Tender’, ‘Viva Las Vegas’, ‘Teddy Bar’, ‘Amazing Grace’, ‘All Shook Up’ and ‘Tears On My Pillow’.Marc Cimino, Chief Operating Officer at UMPG, said: “Elvis Presley has had an unprecedented and lasting global impact on music and pop culture. Jody Gerson and I, along with UMPG’s teams around the world, couldn’t be more excited and honoured to work with ABG in making sure that Elvis’ iconic legacy endures for generations to come.”“2022 is shaping up to be a banner year for Elvis, highlighted by the highly-anticipated theatrical release this June of Elvis directed by Baz Luhrmann, as well as the debut of Netflix’s upcoming animated action series Agent King,” said Marc Rosen, President, Entertainment at ABG.

The PlayStation 5 console is still proving difficult to buy despite the official launch of the console taking place in the UK more than a year ago. Sony released the PlayStation 5 in the UK on November 12, 2020, and it has sold more than 10 million times worldwide, making it the biggest console launch in US history.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefKC Global Media has assembled a selection of Korean, Japanese and U.S. content for the second quarter across its portfolio of linear channels AXN Asia, Animax, GEM and ONE. Animax gets a second season of reality competition show, “American Ninja Warrior Junior,” season 4 of Dick Wolf’s “FBI,” season 3 of “FBI: Most Wanted” and “FBI International.” Continuing the crime theme, it will also play season 13 of “NCIS: Los Angeles” from May.

A Catholic Bishop has demanded that a Jesuit-run school in Massachusetts stop flying the LGBTQI Pride and Black Lives Matter flags. Bishop Robert McManus of Worcester, who was arrested in 2013 for drunken driving, said the Nativity School of Worcester could risk losing its Catholic identity if it chose to continue to fly the flags. The school on its part has stood by its decision. Bishop McManus, found out about the flags recently and issued a statement on April 3 criticising the school. “While we teach that everyone is created in the image and likeness of God, gay pride flags are often used to stand in contrast to consistent Catholic teaching that sacramental marriage is between a man and a woman.

filed suit in Polk County court, claiming that the Department of Corrections discriminated against him based on his gender identity, in violation of the Iowa Civil Rights Act.Vroegh’s case was the first jury lawsuit brought under the Iowa Civil Rights Act since it was amended in 2007 to include protections for gender identity. In February 2019, an Iowa jury found that the Department of Corrections had discriminated against Vroegh on the basis of sex and gender identity through its actions, and awarded him $120,000 in damages. The state later appealed the jury’s verdict to the Iowa Supreme Court, which upheld the jury’s verdict on Friday.“This is a historic victory for civil rights in Iowa, because it makes real the promise of nondiscrimination protections in employment that our legislature put in place for transgender Iowans in 2007,” Rita Bettis Austen, legal director for the ACLU of Iowa, said in a statement.

PlayStation has apparently cut nearly 90 jobs related to sales and marketing in its North American branch.This comes via a new Axios report from yesterday (March 31), which claims that a number of sales and marketing roles in the North American branch of PlayStation are being laid off in what the company calls a “global transformation”.The cuts apparently took place this week, says an impacted worker who spoke with Axios. The merchandiser team is allegedly being closed in the US, which includes PlayStation representatives who would go to retail stores to inform staff about the company’s products.Another worker said that they were disappointed by how Sony Interactive Entertainment – the brand that owns PlayStation – didn’t give them much forewarning, adding the company could have done more to find people alternate jobs.Exactly what the cuts, and the potential shift, mean for Sony’s overall strategy with the PlayStation brand remains to be seen as of publication.Sony has also made no public remarks concerning the apparent cuts.This supposed move away from physical and in-store sales tactics comes the same week Sony announced a new tier system for its PlayStation Plus subscription service.

Eric Kops has been elevated to the new role of Lionsgate’s Head of Global Communications & Earned Media in the conglom’s motion picture division.

Liston was promoted to lead the Global Marketing department last year. She previously held the job and Kops will report to Liston.“Eric could not be more respected for his creativity, intelligence, experience, and leadership skills, which made him the perfect choice to head up the department,” Liston said in a statement.

Marvel Studios has been developing a multitude of projects to give audiences a young stable of superhero characters. From Kate Bishop in the “Hawkeye” series to the upcoming “Ms.

EXCLUSIVE: CBS is accelerating development of HSI: Puerto Rico, a drama from Roselyn Sanchez and Eric Winter’s Two for the Road Entertainment and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment, where Two for the Road is under a deal. The network has set up a writers room led by the project’s writer/executive producer Lisa Morales (Queen Sugar), which will be generating five scripts and a season one bible for a potential scripts-to-series order.

what won Best Picture?! (It was “CODA.”) There was just one scene-stealing moment at the otherwise snoozy Oscars on Sunday night. It was the best minute of TV in many years. “Game of Thrones”‘ “Red Wedding,” eat your heart out.Two and half hours in, a crazed Will Smith stormed the stage after presenter Chris Rock, who should’ve hosted, mockingly said to Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith, “Jada, I love you! ‘GI Jane 2′ — can’t wait to see it!” An innocent little joke.

Simu Liu and American comedian Tiffany Haddish at the 2022 Oscars. The two appeared on stage together to present the award for Best International Feature Film and Mississauga, Ont. -raised Simu looked very patriotic in a red and white Omega suit with a black bowtie.