‘Spitting Image’ Producer Avalon Invests in The Agency to Create Global Talent Business

Haley Lu Richardson and the filmmakers behind the To All the Boys franchise are teaming for a feature adaptation ofThe Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight. Matt Kaplan and his ACE Entertainment banner will produce the feature, which is set to shoot in London.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticJeremy Stevens, a three-time Emmy Award winner – including two as a writer and executive producer on Everybody Loves Raymond – died of renal failure on October 27 at his home in Northridge, California, surrounded by his family. He was 83,A Brooklyn native, Stevens earned a degree in theater at Brooklyn College before studying at New York’s HB Studio under Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof.

sexual assault only months after being charged with drugging and assaulting women in Santa Barbara, authorities said.Guillod, 53, was taken into custody at his home in the Sherman Oaks area of Los Angeles after a woman told police on Oct.

While much of the industry has been having a 2020 they'd rather forget, for Pulse Films it's arguably been one of the studio's best to date. Among a number of reasons to celebrate, the production and talent management house — in which Vice took a majority stake in 2016 —has seen Mogul Mowgli, the music-soaked feature co-written by and starring Riz Ahmed in a deeply personal role,earn rave reviews following its world premiere in Berlin and more recently in London.

Avalon, the U.K.-based management and production company whose credits include Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, Catastrophe, and the recent Sky/FX comedy Breeders, has bolstered its creative force, acquiring a majority stake in The Agency, the British agency whose clients represent some of the leading writers and directors in U.K. TV, film and theater.

Peter White Television EditorAvalon, the talent management and production company behind series including Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, is expanding. The company has acquired a majority stake in The Agency, which represents writers and directors including Gentleman Jack creator Sally Wainwright and A Very English Scandal writer Russell T Davies.The Agency will continue to operate under the leadership and management of its partners.

Dana Baratta, a writer and producer on such shows as Dawson's Creek, Private Practice and Jessica Jones, died Sunday at her Los Angeles home after a long battle with ovarian cancer, her family announced. She was 59.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterNoah Goldstein, a Grammy-winning producer who’s worked with Kanye West, Frank Ocean and Travis Scott, among others, has signed with Milk & Honey for management.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterPaul Frank, a producer and TV executive who worked at Columbia TriStar TV, the Firm and Prospect Park, died Sept. 30 at the age of 53.Frank died at his home in Los Angeles of what family members believe was a heart attack.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorNetflix has handed a series order to First Kill, a YA vampire series based on the short story by New York Times bestselling author Victoria “V. E.” Schwab, with American Horror Story and Scream Queens star Emma Roberts set to produce via her Belletrist Productions.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorNetflix has handed a series order to First Kill, a YA vampire series based on the short story by New York Times bestselling author Victoria “V. E.” Schwab, with American Horror Story and Scream Queens star Emma Roberts set to star and produce via her Belletrist Productions.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorBill Nighy (Love Actually ) and rising UK actress Aimee Lou Wood (Sex Education) are set to star in feature Living for director Oliver Hermanus (Moffie).The screenplay by Nobel and Booker Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of The Day) is an English-language adaptation of the 1952 classic Ikiru, written by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni.Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen’s Number 9 Films (Carol) will produce.

Andrew Cuomo to allow cinemas to welcome back customers.“48 states have reopened theatres safely. Why not New York, Gov.

Manori Ravindran International EditorJane Tranter, the British super-producer behind the likes of “His Dark Materials,” “The Night Of,” “Succession” and “A Discovery of Witches,” has said the “diversity of voices” in the U.K.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorViacomCBS International Studios has announced that it is developing a TV series based on the life of Italian female artist Artemisia Gentileschi, who is considered to be one of the most accomplished painters in the Baroque period.ViacomCBS International Studios has attached Pan’s Labyrinth producer Frida Torresblanco to develop the project, while former ViacomCBS International Studios UK managing director Jill Offman is also involved through her new outfit 66

Nellie Andreeva, Patrick Hipes ICM Partners is expanding into athlete representation in sports. In its latest move in the European marketplace, ICM has acquired London-based powerhouse soccer and sports agency Stellar Group.

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentSid Gentle Films, the BAFTA and Emmy award-winning producers behind “Killing Eve” and “The Durrells,” headed by Sally Woodward Gentle (pictured below), has acquired the rights to develop Cash Carraway’s “Skint Estate” for TV, and has lined up a lead writer for previously announced “Taking Up Space.” Both projects are in formal development with British broadcasters.“Skint Estate” is a darkly funny, searingly political, debut memoir from Carraway,