‘The Liberator’ Producer Trioscope Raises $5M Investment From Firms Including Bitkraft Ventures & Sony

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterIn 2016, Kelly Grimsley was vacationing in Los Angeles when she was invited to lunch with a family friend.

The first clear sign that Broadway’s road to recovery will be a very bumpy one came today with the announced early closings of Is This A Room and Dana H., two critically acclaimed plays performing on alternative nights at the Lyceum Theatre.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe Recording Academy has announced that Fulwell 73 Productions will oversee all aspects of the 2022 Grammy Awards, taking place at Los Angeles’ Staples Center on Monday, Jan. 31, 2022, broadcasting live on CBS and streaming live and on demand on Paramount+.Jesse Collins, Raj Kapoor and Ben Winston will serve as executive producers.

K.J. Yossman Kenton Allen, CEO of London-based outfit Big Talk Productions, has plenty to be pleased about.

Ed Sheeran is causing Saturday Night Live producers to panic.

Former top ABC News producer Michael Corn Friday asked the New York State Supreme Court to throw out a sexual assault suit against him by one of the show’s staffers saying it’s past the statute of limitations and that the allegations are false.

Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorAs the industry grapples with the tragic on-set death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, a picture is emerging of a low-budget film set that was already chaotic before the fatal accident occurred.Several IATSE crew members on the New Mexico set of the Western “Rust,” where cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed Thursday by a prop gun shot by Alec Baldwin, reportedly quit the production because they felt producers were not following safety guidelines, according

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThe former top producer of ABC’s “Good Morning America” has asked that a sexual-assault lawsuit filed against him be dismissed, citing New York’s statute of limitations on harassment claims and alleging the plaintiff in the case has fabricated claims against him.A lawsuit filed in August in the Supreme Court of the State of New York by ABC News producer Kirstyn Crawford raised troubling allegations that Michael Corn, a longtime senior producer at ABC News who

Producers of the Spirit Awards, and non-profit arts organization, Film Independent, announced the five filmmakers and projects selected for their 21st annual producing Lab. The fellows will participate in a program set up to help develop their skills and further their careers by pairing them with a creative advisor who will advise on both the craft and business of independent producing. 

EXCLUSIVE: Adria Arjona will star and executive produce the drama Los Frikis with Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz writing and directing. New Slate financing, Nilson, Schwartz will produce alongside Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Rebecca Tomlinson for Lord Miller.

EXCLUSIVE: With his latest film The Harder They Fall bowing in theaters today, Emmy-nominated actor Jonathan Majors isn’t looking to slow down anytime soon. He is now set to star in Magazine Dreams, the new bodybuilding drama from Elijah Bynum. Bynum is writing and directing, with Majors also set to serve as an executive producer on the project under his Tall Street Productions. The script was included on the 2020 Black List.

Addie Morfoot ContributorIt’s been just over two years since documentary power couple — director Liz Garbus and producer/financier Dan Cogan — launched Story Syndicate, and already the production company has four films contending for Academy Award consideration this awards season.In addition to producing Garbus’ National Geographic doc “Becoming Cousteau,” opening in theaters today, Story Syndicate is also behind three additional Oscar qualified documentaries: John Hoffman and Janet Tobias’

While the Marvel Studios films seem to be the biggest franchise on the planet right now, able to wrangle some of the best filmmakers working today, the MCU can’t hold a candle to the James Bond franchise when it comes to the caliber of filmmaker absolutely desperate to join. We’ve heard from folks like Christopher Nolan and Denis Villeneuve, who have both made it abundantly clear they would jump at the chance to tackle 007.

An iconic UK live music venue is on the verge of reopening following millions of pounds of investment from Elisabeth Murdoch, Jane Featherstone and Stacey Snider’s Chernobyl producer Sister.

K.J. Yossman Disgraced Sony Music Australia boss Denis Handlin has had his ‘Icon’ award revoked by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), it was reported today.Once the most powerful man in the Australian music industry, Handlin left the company abruptly in June following a number of allegations regarding his conduct and the “toxic” culture he had presided over.

Katie Song Neon and QC Entertainment announced they have partnered to make an as-yet untitled horror film from first-time feature director Bishal Dutta.The story is based partially on Indian legend, partially on a personal family story from Dutta’s grandfather and partially on the filmmaker’s experience being born in India and moving to and being raised in America.QC Entertainment, the producers of “Get Out” and “BlacKkKlansman,” will co-finance the film with Raymond Mansfield and Sean

Jamie Lang The Fear Collection, a new horror-based joint venture between Sony Pictures International, Amazon Prime Video and Alex de la Iglesia’s Pokeepsie Films, has announced its next feature production, “Venus” from Spanish genre legend Jaume Balagueró (“[Rec]” “Mientras duermes”) and starring one of the country’s most exciting young actors, Ester Expósito (“Élite,” “Someone Has to Die”).Balagueró’s new feature was announced at the genre-specialist Sitges Film Festival, where De la Iglesia