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Global distribution group Blue Ant International has acquired complete ownership of UK-based production financing and distribution firm Drive Media Rights. Drive’s managing directors, Ben Barrett (pictured, right) and Lilla Hurst (pictured, left), will ...

Kino Lorber has acquired North American distribution rights to the Sundance prizewinner Framing Agnes (pictured), which it has slated for a December theatrical release. Directed by Chase Joynt and based on his ...

New York–based film and TV studio/streaming network FilmRise has brought on Cristina Guggino as its first director of unscripted production. Guggino (pictured) will oversee FilmRise’s unscripted coproductions, original commissioning, and development of ...

Selling Sunset and RuPaul’s Drag Race were among the big unscripted winners at this year’s MTV Movie & TV Awards. The award winners were revealed at the 30th edition of the ...

Paris-headquartered Pernel Media has been commissioned to produce Rise of the Vikings, a docudrama series for Canal+ channels Planète+ and C8. Throughout four 60-minute episodes, the series (titled Vikings, les premiers ...

Bunim/Murray Productions, part of Banijay Americas, has promoted three internal executives and added four new members to its development and current production teams, including hiring veteran producer Gayani Wanigaratne and ...

Veteran television executive and producer Pam Healey has joined Wheelhouse Entertainment as president of its flagship production company, Spoke Studios. The announcement was made Thursday (June 2) by Wheelhouse founder and CEO ...

HBO Documentary Films and the Gotham Film & Media Institute’s Expanding Communities program have unveiled their Documentary Development Initiative. The new initiative has been created for storytellers who identify as BIPOC, ...

Toronto-based media conglomerate Corus Entertainment has announced more than 200 hours of new and returning series and specials across its portfolio of linear networks for the 2022-23 season, including several ...