Exclusive: Conley Entertainment Group Takes Over The Cannes Film Festival
While Harrison Ford, Martin Scorsese, Todd Haynes, Natalie Portman, Wes Anderson and more made for the glitziest Cannes Film Festival in recent memory, Conley Entertainment Group (CEG), which recently announced a $100 million equity fund with plans to produce two feature films per year beginning in 2024, was the talk of the town.
DreamWorks Theatricals and MTI Team Up for Emerging Writers Program
DreamWorks Theatricals and Music Theatre International, in partnership with NBCUniversal’s Global Talent Development & Inclusion (GTDI) team, announce today the DreamWorks Theatricals/MTI Emerging Writers Program, a new partnership that will identify diverse teams of bookwriters, composers and lyricists with unique voices and points of view to develop musical adaptations of popular DreamWorks Animation titles intended for the Music Theatre International catalogue.
AMC Announces its Projects Currently in Development
At the Television Critics' Association (TCA) Press Tour, AMC Networks and AMC Studios announced a partial list of current projects in development. The broad slate, which includes potential AMC Studios series being developed for the company's Entertainment Group and also projects being developed for potential sale to other content companies, reflects fresh ideas and strong voices from creators and talent including Scott Z. Burns, Katie Couric, Owen and Stephen King, Megan Mostyn Brown, Armadu Garba, Eliza Clark, Mark Johnson, Zack Whedon, Scott Gold, Ilana Glazer, T Bone Burnett and many others.
Bizable Media Appoints Lucy Veale As Director, Business Affairs And Production
Most recently, Veale was the Business Affairs Analyst in the entertainment group at Dentons Canada LLC where she worked on a wide variety of production-related legal and business affairs in the film, television, and new media area. Before joining Dentons she served as Business Affairs Coordinator at Shaftesbury where she worked on high profile television series and projects produced by their digital division. She also held the position of Director of Development and Associate Producer at Accent Entertainment.
Turner & The Maj Group to Open Cartoon Network Entertainment Park in Bali
Turner Asia Pacific has announced a licensing partnership with Indonesian real-estate and hospitality investment company, The MAJ Group, to develop a 4.3-hectare entertainment park in Bali. The family destination will feature the island's largest waterpark and an indoor entertainment centre – all splashed with Cartoon Network theming and unique sense of fun.
Photo Flash: Meet the New Dancers Moonwalking into West End's THRILLER LIVE
They're changing the cast at Thriller Live with eight new dancers joining the 15th Longest Running Musical in West End history - all making their West End stage debuts. The youngsters joining the cast this week are on 12-month contracts that will see them in the show when it starts its 10th anniversary West End celebrations at the Lyric Theatre in January 2018. Scroll down to meet the new stars!