EXCLUSIVE: Ash Avildsen’s Sumerian Records & Films, which is looking to increase its film and TV footprint, has acquired independent comic book publisher and gaming company Behemoth Entertainment.
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EXCLUSIVE: Cliffhanger director Renny Harlin and Extraordinary Entertainment partner Daljit DJ Parmar will take a dive into the gaming world with their newly established gaming company Distributed Ledger Entertainment.
Distributed Ledger Entertainment will be led by executives including Mention Mobile co-founder Ryan Ozonian who will serve as CEO, Chief Advisor Michael Yeates, Chief of Strategy Boyko Draganov and Chief of Marketing Rob Perryman.
The newly-founded gaming company has already started development on its inaugural game, Carrier, based on Harlin’s upcoming film of the same name starring Kate Bosworth, Ron Perlman and Line Shaye. In Carrier, when a mysterious phenomenon leads to mass chaos, a splintering family escapes to a small island…but their troubles are only beginning. The first gaming title will be a play-to-earn that seeks to combine interactive mobile gaming with film IP, built on top of blockchain technology.
A mobile-first person shooter, Carrier centers on survivors of a viral outbreak-turned-zombie apocalypse, who must stand together with humanity in order to eradicate the Carriers. By establishing a unique identity and collecting the exclusive NFTs, users will be rewarded for the kill of each Carrier with Zombie tokens. The digital tokes have been been created by DLE’s in-house team of NFT artists and game designers led by Daytime Emmy nominee Kory Jones.
Ozonian, Yeates and Draganov will oversee the creative production of the mobile game.
“Extending the world of my films into an immersive, interactive space for audiences has long been a dream of mine, so kicking off the launch of DLE with Carrier is incredibly exciting,” said Harlin. “We’ve assembled an A-team of tech leaders to combine emerging
EXCLUSIVE: Ash Avildsen’s Sumerian Records & Films, which is looking to increase its film and TV footprint, has acquired independent comic book publisher and gaming company Behemoth Entertainment.
William Earl Variety announced today that Emilio and Gloria Estefan will be honored with the Variety Legends and Groundbreakers award at the inaugural Miami Entertainment Town breakfast held on Thursday, April 7. The event will celebrate those featured in the Miami Entertainment Impact Report, which profiles media, music and entertainment individuals based out of Miami who have made a great impact in their respective fields this year.
Vijay Subramaniam, the former Amazon India and Disney India executive, has launched an independent venture that will develop, produce and finance content for the Indian market.
Amazon Studios has given a series order to its YA action-thriller pilot Harlan Coben’s Shelter, an adaptation of Coben’s Mickey Bolitar novels with Jaden Michael (Colin in Black and White) starring as Bolitar. The project, co-produced by MGM International Television Productions and Amazon Studios, will premiere on Prime Video.
Joe Otterson TV ReporterAmazon has picked up the series adaptation of Harlan Coben’s “Shelter,” Variety has learned.The show was ordered to pilot at Amazon in 2021. Based on the first novel in Coben’s Mickey Bolitar trilogy, the YA thriller series stars Jaden Michael as Bolitar as he navigates his new life with a mom in rehab, a dead father, an annoying aunt, and a new school in New Jersey with a camel as its mascot. When a creepy old lady who may or may not be a ghost tells Mickey that his father isn’t dead, Mickey is sure he’s losing his mind on top of everything.
The GB News presenter, 62, cut the ribbon on the ‘Care Zone Mobile Unit’, which will remove barriers to accessing important health care information for people the Oldpark area, where the popular TV celebrity grew up. Eamonn, who has long been a supporter of the Care Zone and the work that they do, was the special guest at Saturday’s event at the YEHA project in north Belfast.
Emilio Delgado – known for his role as Luis on the era-spanning children’s show "Sesame Street," has died, Fox News Digital can confirm. He was 81. "We are saddened by the news of Emilio’s passing," Robert Attermann, CEO of A3 Artists Agency told Fox News in a statement on Thursday.
Emilio Delgado has passed away at the age of 81. The Mexican American actor and singer was best known for his role as Luis on “Sesame Street.” For more than 40 years he portrayed the Fix-It Shop owner, entertaining generations of children and families. “A beloved member of the Sesame family for over 50 years, his warmth and humor invited children to share a friendship that has echoed through generations,” Sesame Workshop said of Delgado in a statement to CNN.
A Sesame Street legend has passed away.
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Emilio Delgado, the actor and singer who for 45 years was a warm and familiar presence in children's lives and a rare Latino face on American television as fix-it shop owner Luis on “Sesame Street,” died Thursday.His wife, Carol Delgado, told The Associated Press that Emilio Delgado died from the blood cancer multiple myeloma at their home in New York. He was 81.As Luis, Delgado, a Mexican American, got to play an ordinary, non-stereotypical Latino character at a time when such depictions were few and far between on TV, for adults or children.“There really wasn’t any representation of actual people,” Delgado said in a 2021 interview on the YouTube series “Famous Cast Words.” "Most of the roles that I went out for were either for bandits or gang members."That changed with “Sesame Street," where a diverse cast interacted with a diverse group of children, along with Jim Henson creations Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Elmo and Grover.Delgado joined the show starting with its third season in 1971.
Emilio Delgado, the actor best known for his beloved role as “Fix-It-Shop” owner Luis Rodriguez on “Sesame Street,” has died, his representative confirmed to Variety. He was 81.“We are saddened by the news of Emilio’s passing,” Robert Attermann, CEO of A3 Artists Agency, said in a statement. “Emilio was an immense talent who brought so much joy and smiles to his fans.
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Emilio Delgado, the actor whose decades-long portrayal of Sesame Street‘s fix-it shop owner Luis Rodriguez endeared him to generations of young viewers and was a pioneering force in TV’s depiction of Mexican-Americans, died in New York City today just more than two years after being diagnosed with the blood cancer multiple myeloma. He was 81.
told TMZ that her husband had been battling blood cancer for the past few years and died surrounded by his family in NYC. The Post has reached out to his rep for confirmation.Delgado — also a stage actor who appeared in several productions of “Sesame Street” — was reportedly working up until his death in a theater run of “Quixote Nuevo.” The Mexican American actor first became a household name playing Luis — the singing owner of the neighborhood “Fix-It Shop” — on the long-running children’s television show in 1971.He remained on the series until 2016 but continued making appearances at conventions for the show.
Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorIndependent finance and production company SSS Entertainment is launching a sales arm dubbed The Syndicate, offering titles including two films starring and directed by Katie Holmes and Neil Labute’s “House of Darkness” starring Justin Long and Kate Bosworth.Shaun Sanghani, owner and CEO of SSS Entertainment, says the company will focus on “using its depth of experience to deliver independent features that are daring and empathetic while being accessible and recognizable to a wide audience.”Among the half dozen titles that SSS Entertainment has recently produced and financed are “Alone Together” and period piece “Rare Objects,” both starring and directed by Holmes.At SXSW this week, SSS Entertainment is premiering Eli Horowitz’s “The Cow” with Winona Ryder and Dermot Mulroney. Sanghani produced and financed “The Fallout,” which won last year’s SXSW Grand Jury and Audience awards.
Sales and distribution outfit Blue Fox Entertainment is launching a digital lending platform dedicated to film financing.