Lionsgate International television and distribution president Peter Iacono is to depart the company, with Agapy Kapouranis succeeding him. Iacono is to leave the studio to become CEO of TravelCadabra, his own internet travel, entertainment and e-commerce platform which he says will launch in early 2019 and has secured “up to US$10m in initial funding”. […]
Distributors will tell you that if they could have one drama production in their portfolio it would be an evergreen returning franchise that rakes in the cash year after year. But this doesn’t alter the fact that TV movies, minis and limited runs are also regarded as valuable assets and are increasingly getting recommissioned as […]
The TBI Scripted Survey 2016 reveals why, where and how the genre is evolving, tackling the big issues with anecdotal evidence and data gathered from the world’s top scripted executives. Lights… camera… action! The Netflix question: what is the single most important way in which Netflix has changed the TV drama market? It […]
Drama’s prolonged period in the sun doesn’t seem like ending any time soon. In fact, it feels like it might go on longer than anyone could have predicted. In the US, there are near-on 70 cable channels commissioning shows, while Europe has seen an explosion of free and pay TV channels and producers coming together […]
Lionsgate Entertainment has promoted Agapy Kapouranis to the post of executive VP, global SVOD. Among her key duties will be assessing whether individual programme sales should be made as global SVOD deals – primarily with Netflix – or on a markey-by-market, case-by-case basis. She will report to Lionsgate executive VP, North American TV and SVOD […]
The LA Screenings see thousands of buyers head to Los Angeles to peruse the Hollywood studio’s latest offerings. However, May isn’t entirely about the majors and the Latins and independents are keen to make the most of the buyers’ time, reports Stewart Clarke It is little wonder that international buyers always cite the LA Screenings […]
Amid what is described as the ‘Golden Age’ of TV drama there is an increasing trend to look to feature films for small-screen inspiration. John Hazelton looks at the film-to-TV trend and reveals how top creative talent to raiding is studio vaults to find material for the small screen When Fargo won this year’s Emmy […]
As the pace of consolidation quickens, competition for rights is fiercer than ever. Stewart Clarke talks to distributors about the changing face of the business and how, in the hyper competitive world of TV, they are gaining access to content. First-look deals, overall deals, development deals, output deals, umbrella deals and pod deals: all are […]
Netflix is going big on original programming. Having started off with Lilyhammer, it stepped things up a gear with David Fincher and Kevin Spacey’s political drama House of Cards. It has a new series of Arrested Development on the way and, for the summer, a prison drama from the creator of Weeds and produced by […]
