Warner Bros Worldwide TV Manufacturing To Rep Magnolia Network Exhibits
Warner Bros International Television Production (WBITVP) has struck a deal to rep codecs from Magnolia Community, the three way partnership between its dad or mum, Warner Bros Discovery, and Chip and Joanna Grimes. This can see taking a visit of codecs from Magnolia — Curler Jam, Human vs. Hamster and Second Probability Stage — to MIPCOM subsequent month. All three exhibits will launch this fall on Max within the U.S. Curler Jam, produced by Nikki Boella and Brian Lando sees high roller-skating crews dance to win a significant prize and donation to their native ice rink. Human vs. Hamster, from Ninja Warrior maker A. Smith & Co., sees outstanding pet hamsters go toe-to-toe with folks in scaled-up challenges that take a look at velocity, power, agility and consuming prowess. Second Problem Stage, from The Mental Property Company, is a expertise comp during which contestants who’ve pushed goals apart for years and even a long time get an opportunity to carry out in entrance of expertise scouts, brokers and producers to win a money prize. WBITVP has full worldwide rights to the trio, bar the U.S. Andrew Zein — WBITVP EVP, Inventive, Format Growth and Gross sales — mentioned “primetime codecs that households and associates can take pleasure in collectively are in enormous demand at current, and these three titles, designed for each linear and streaming household audiences, are extremely authentic and massively entertaining.”
Series Mania Launches Patrons Upfront
Sequence Mania’s subsequent version will include an added enticement for consumers. The European content material occasion, subsequent held in late March 2025, will embrace a Sequence Mania Patrons Upfront occasion, which is being pitched as a “prelude to the Discussion board designed to supply consumers with unique entry to highly-anticipated collection and facilitate networking alternatives” with distributors. The occasion can be held on March 24 on the Chamber of Commerce in Lille, France, a day earlier than the industry-focused three-day Sequence Mania Discussion board begins. The vent kicks off with an invitation-only brunch adopted by excerpts of twelve collection which can be in submit or near launch. A jury of consumers from Mediaset Spain, Sky, Movistar Plus+, SVT and Arte will choose a winner, which can be introduced on the Discussion board’s welcome drinks the subsequent night time, adopted by a pink carpet screening. The Sequence Mania Pageant is open to the general public and claims to draw as much as 70,000 spectators throughout its eight days.
Japan’s Nippon TV Names World Content material Chief
Satoru Hiramatsu would be the subsequent Managing Director of Nippon TV’s World Content material Enterprise division. Previously on the Japanese community’s linear and streaming programing unit, he replaces Mikiko Nishiyama, who has been named Govt Advisor of Nippon’s World Technique Headquarters. Hiramatsu will now report on to Yuzo Kuwahara, the Chief Working Officer and President of Nippon TV Content material Enterprise. The promotion places Hiramatsu answerable for Nippon’s international content material gross sales and promotion staff, which is understood for the likes of Dragon’s Den/Shark Tank, Previous Sufficient! and Mom. Hiramatsu mentioned that Nippon “nonetheless holds a wealth of equally inventive codecs and concepts which have but to be totally launched to the world,” and his purpose was to “promote this new IP in a well timed and compelling method.” He added that “the worldwide content material market is witnessing a rising wave of curiosity in Japanese-origin content material, not solely in anime but in addition in live-action codecs. At Nippon TV, we goal to play a pivotal function in amplifying this wave by working intently with our international companions.”
‘Criminal Record‘ Producer Lands Ex-British Spy’s Novel
Tod Productions, the UK producer behind Apple TV+’s drama Felony Report, has landed adaptation rights to former MI6 operative Charles Beaumont’s thriller novel A Spy Alone. Beaumont’s debut novel explores the potential for a spy ring in Oxford and is billed as a “searing portrait of recent Britain in an age of cynical populism.” Set in 2022, its follows former spy-turned personal sector employee Simon Sharman, who finds worrying data after being requested to delve into the monetary dealings of a mysterious Russian oligarch. He begins to marvel if what he has discovered is a Russian spy ring nestled within the coronary heart of the British institution, or if he has change into one other paranoid ex-spook obsessive about redemption. Revealed by Canelo in 2023, the guide has bought 55,000 copies throughout all codecs, and a a sequel will comply with earl subsequent yr. Tod, which Elaine Collins runs as an unique co-production accomplice to STV Studios, struck the cope with Michael Dean at Andrew Nurnberg Associates. “Charles’ novel is an excellent mixture of old-school spy craft and up to date politics,” mentioned Collins. “We had been actually drawn to the novel’s contemporary strategy to the spy style – the place our hero tussles with the brand new guidelines for intelligence in a submit ideological world. Most of all, it’s a cracking thriller with a wise political message.”
Shibashish Sarkar Re-Elected At Producers Guild Of India
Shibashish Sarkar will assume a 3rd consecutive time period as President of the Producers Guild of India after being unanimously re-elected on the physique’s AGM on Friday. Manish Goswami and Madhu Bhojwani had been additionally re-elected Vice Presidents, whereas Ashim Samanta and Fazila Allana had been re-elected as Treasurers. Aashish Singh, Dipti Kotak, and Ankur Garg had been elected as new Vice Presidents. “I am honoured and humbled by the boldness my friends have reposed in me by re-electing me as President of the Guild for the third yr,” mentioned Sarkar. “I sit up for our members’ continued counsel and assist, which lies on the coronary heart of all that the Guild strives to attain.”
