EXCLUSIVE: Names of programming executives impacted by today’s layoffs across Paramount Global’s CBS Studios and Paramount TV Studios are starting to emerge. As expected, all of them are on the Paramount TV Studios side, largely as a result of Paramount+’s scripted originals team being folded into that studio. I hear the list includes former top current executive at Apple TV+ and Sony Pictures Television Kim Rozenfeld , who joined PTVS in August as SVP Current Television. His exit stems from the restructuring; he was brought in for the role when the studio’s head of current, Cheryl Bosnak, added dual responsibilities as EVP and Head of Current for Paramount Television Studios and Paramount+. As Paramount+ is phasing out its scripted original operation, with its studio suppliers taking charge of their development and series, Bosnak will now be focusing solely on her PTVS portfolio, making the SVP position redundant. In a similar situation, as Nicole Clemens, who … [Read more...] about SVP Kim Rozenfeld & EVP John Lynch Among Several Executives Leaving In Paramount TV Studios Layoffs
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‘Till’, ‘Don’t Worry Darling‘ and ’Living’ Production Designers On Recreating A Bygone Era
The 1950s can inspire various forms of nostalgia. Three films this Oscar season give life to that bygone era in three very different ways. Till gives a historically accurate representation of the period, heavily based on newsreels and photos documenting the Emmett Till case. The decade gets a rose-colored perspective with Don’t Worry Darling , taking a more opulent and luxurious lens to the Golden Age in America, while Living takes on 1950s London, showing a more restrained aesthetic and color palette than its American counterparts. Till Based on a true story in 1955, Chinonye Chukwu’s Till follows the life of civil rights activist Mamie Till-Mobley after the brutal lynching of her teenage son Emmett Till. While Till Mobley’s journey starts in her Chicago home, the bulk of the work for production designer Curt Beech was to recreate areas in Mississippi that were key to the Emmett Till case. “The news reels that showed the town were really valuable,” says … [Read more...] about ‘Till’, ‘Don’t Worry Darling‘ and ’Living’ Production Designers On Recreating A Bygone Era