EXCLUSIVE : NBC has given a put pilot commitment to Blank Slate , an hourlong drama from The Brave creator Dean Georgaris and The Blacklist producer Davis Entertainment . Written by Georgaris, Black Slate is a high-concept procedural about a government agent who may not be what he seems. Georgaris executive produces with Davis Entertainment’s John Davis and John Fox. Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, where Davis Entertainment and Georgaris are under deals, is the studio. .Three pilots written by Georgaris for Uni TV have gone to series in the last few years, The Brave and Bluff City Law. at NBC and Baker and the Beauty at ABC. In addition to Sony TV/Uni TV’s The Blacklist, now in its ninth season on NBC, Davis Entertainment is producing two CBS drama series co-produced by Universal TV, The Equalizer and Magnum P.I. The company also has in the works a Waterworld TV series based on the Kevin Costner movie. …
Crime Drama ‘For The Love Of Money’ Acquired By Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures; November Theatrical Release Set
EXCLUSIVE: Byron Allen ’s Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to For the Love of Money , a crime drama directed by Leslie Small that stars Keri Hilson and Katt Williams . The distributor plans to release the pic via its Freestyle Releasing, in association with Global View Entertainment, in 750 theaters nationwide on November 24, marking the company’s first theatrical release in more than a year owing to the pandemic. The pic, produced by Melvin Childs Presents, centers on a single mother (Hilson) who, when pushed to her limits out of the need to protect her daughter (Jazzy Jade), returns to a world she’s spent a lifetime running from. LisaRaye McCoy, Rotimi, Jason Mitchell, DC Young Fly and Cedric Pendleton also star, with appearances by musical artists Keith Sweat, Latto and Lyfe Jennings. Zadia Ife, Timothy Allen Smith and Small wrote the screenplay. “ We are very excited to be partnering with Global View Entertainment …
Redbox Closes Merger With SPAC Seaport Global, Confirms IPO Date
Redbox , the 19-year-old entertainment mainstay known for its network of disc-dispensing kiosks, will become a public company on Monday. The company confirmed the date of its long-planned initial public offering after closing its merger with special-purpose acquisition company Seaport Global. The SPAC deal, announced last May, values the combined company at $693 million. The network of 40,000-some Redbox kiosks outside grocery stores and other retailers isn’t likely to disappear anytime soon despite the decline of physical disc sales. Data from nearly two decades of kiosk transactions is being used to guide decisions in the company’s expanding production and acquisition arm. It is also informing the rollout of streaming services using transactional on-demand and free, ad-supported models. At a special meeting on Wednesday, the boards of directors for both companies approved the combination. The combined company will be known as Redbox Entertainment Inc., and its …
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Redbox Jumps 24% On First Trading Day; Hollywood Fences Are Mended, CEO Galen Smith Says: “We’ve Been Able To Convince Them Over Time”
Redbox , originally a disc-dispensing network of kiosks developed by executives at McDonald’s, kicked off a new corporate chapter today by becoming a publicly traded company. Its stock surged 24% during the trading session, touching a high of $14.44 before closing at $11.90. The public listing on the Nasdaq was created by a SPAC merger with Seaport Global Acquisition Corp., yielding an enterprise value of $590.3 million. Private equity firm Apollo Global Management, which took Redbox’s former parent company private in 2016, still owns 76.1% of the new entity. Although it continues to operate some 40,000 red kiosks located at the high-traffic doors of retail stores, Redbox has also pushed into streaming as well as film production. It operates Redbox Free Live TV, an ad-supported service, as well as Redbox On Demand , which has free and transactional. Redbox Entertainment , which launched in 2019, has fostered a lineup of moderately budgeted genre movies made for broader …
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW! The Unknown Number Star Nishigandha Wad: We Were Fighting With An Unknown Enemy
Veteran actress Nishigandha Wad, who has predominantly worked in the Marathi film industry, has recently featured in the short film, The Unknown Number . The short film, which focuses on the phone conversation between two strangers during the pandemic, also stars Gaurav Bisht in a pivotal role. Nishigandha Wad is playing the role of a government officer, who is working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. The trailer of The Unknown Number has already received a positive response, and the film is also being loved by the audiences. Amidst all, Filmibeat recently had an exclusive conversation with actress Nishigandha Wad, in which she spoke about her character, experience working on The Unknown Number , Marathi film industry, portrayal of women in Indian cinema and much more. Excerpts- EXCLUSIVE! Kushagre Dua AKA Sunny Of Mehndi Hai Rachne Waali: The Show Is Not Going Off-Air As Of Now EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW! Ishk Par Zor Nahi Fame Param Singh: I Can Play …
Bunty Aur Babli 2 Teaser: Saif-Rani & Siddhant-Sharvari Troll Each Other In This Hilarious Video With A Twist!
Yash Raj Films Bunty Aur Babli 2 , which is set to release worldwide on November 19, 2021, is a rib-tickling comedy that will pit two sets of con artists, from different generations, against each other as they try to prove who is the better con couple. The makers are setting up this rivalry through a super innovative hilarious teaser video that doesn't have any film footage! In the video, these two pairs of con artists mercilessly troll each other. The video has also revealed that the trailer of Bunty Aur Babli 2 will be out on Monday, 25th October. EXCLUSIVE! Bunty Aur Babli 2 Actress Sharvari On Being A YRF Heroine & How Aditya Chopra Guides Her Watch the teaser here. Saif Ali Khan, who plays the OG Bunty aka Rakesh, reveals, " Bunty Aur Babli 2 is a game of cat and mouse between the OG con couple and the New con couple trying to prove that they are better than what the originals were in their prime. This will spark the rivalry and …
Finalement! Wes Anderson’s ‘The French Dispatch’ Delivered To Theaters; ‘Becoming Cousteau’ Dives In – Specialty Preview
After a long Covid delay, The French Dispatch opens this weekend with distributor Searchlight Pictures and the industry hoping the whimsical Wes Anderson ’s film brings a touch of Grand Budapest Hotel -ish coin to the specialty box office. Hoping, but not counting on it, as the box office take beyond studio tentpoles has been largely dour and stubbornly unpredictable. The French Dispatch debuts in 52 theaters and 14 markets in a crowded field including the pop culture phenomenon called Dune . Searchlight acquired The French Dispatch in September of 2019 and it was to have played at a Covid-canceled Cannes in 2020. It premiered on the Croisette this year instead, then screened at the BFI London Film Festival, Telluride, the New York Film Festival –hitting 25 fests in all. Anderson’s tenth film — full name The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun — brings to life a collection of stories from the final issue of an American magazine …
PR Agency Organic Hires Kara MacLean As Senior Director In L.A. Office
Kara MacLean has taken on the role of Senior Director at PR and communications agency Organic . She will report to Senior Vice President Kirsty Langsdale, who launched Organic’s Los Angeles office in January 2020. MacLean will work with Langsdale to continue building U.S. business for the London-based agency. Organic recently announced APAC office – Organic Pacific – based in Sydney, Australia. From those bases, Organic works across the spheres of international publicity, unit production PR, corporate representation, film and TV festival rep, social media and event management. Prior to Organic, the Canadian-born MacLean had been running her own International PR agency in Los Angeles. She has represented distributors, sales agents and production companies for domestic distribution, international rollout, festival strategy and corporate communications. Clients have included the Inside Out LGBTQA+ Film Festival in Toronto and New York’s NewFest LGBTQ Film Festival, Ava DuVernay’s …
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Peter Scolari Dies: Emmy-Winning ‘Bosom Buddies’, ‘Newhart’, ‘Girls’ Actor Was 66
Peter Scolari , the prolific television and stage actor who found instant fame and a lifelong friendship with Tom Hanks when the two co-starred in the hit 1980 TV comedy Bosom Buddies , died early Friday morning following a two-year battle with cancer. He was 66. His death was announced by Ellen Lubin Sanitsky at Wright Entertainment. Scolari’s 43-year show business career included such highlights as his Emmy-nominated series regular role of producer Michael Harris on Bob Newhart ’s 1984-90 comedy Newhart , an Emmy-winning recurring role as the father of Lena Dunham’s character on HBO’s Girls , and, most recently, his role as Bishop Thomas Marx on the CBS supernatural drama Evil . A partial roster of other TV credits include Fosse/Verdon, Madoff, The Good Fight, Murphy Brown, The West Wing, ER, Gotham, Law & Order: SVU, Ally McBeal, From the Earth to the Moon and Honey I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show , to name a relative few. Film credits include …
John Cena In Negotiations To Star In Action-Comedy Movie ‘Freelance’ From ‘Taken’ Director Pierre Morel — AFM
EXCLUSIVE : F9: The Fast Saga and The Suicide Squad star John Cena is in negotiations to star in Pierre Morel ( Taken ) action-comedy film Freelance , which Stuart Ford’s AGC will be selling at the upcoming virtual American Film Market. Endurance Media’s Steve Richards will produce the package alongside Sentient Entertainment’s Renee Tab and Christopher Tuffin. Endurance will co-finance with AGC. UTA and ICM are handling domestic. The project, which is budgeted in the $40 million range, follows a special forces operator (Cena) who decides to retire from the Army and start a family back in the states. After several years of mortgage payments, school drop-offs, backyard barbecues and trying to conform to life in suburbia, he decides to come out of retirement to take a gig providing security for a female journalist as she interviews a cruel dictator who may or may not have ordered the attack on him and his men. When a military coup breaks out in the middle of the …