Exclusive: Village Roadshow is bolstering its television ranks.
The company’s television arm has hired Cory Lanier, who has worked on series including Amazon’s Hunters and Jordan Peele comedy series Weird City.
Lanier joins as SVP, Scripted Television. He will report to Village Roadshow’s Alix Jaffe, EVP, Television.
He will help the company produce scripted content across all platforms including streaming, network, and syndication.
Lanier joins from Sreda Global, where he was SVP, establishing an LA studio for the international company. He was previously VP, Television Series and Digital at Sonar Entertainment, where he produced Weird City and Amazon docuseries Lorena as well as exec producing Team Downey’s YouTube Premium docuseries The Age of AI.
In addition to helping develop and oversee Hunters, he had a four year stint at Legendary Television, serving as Vice President, Television and Digital Studios, and also worked for veteran film producer Hunt Lowry.
The company’s television arm has hired Cory Lanier, who has worked on series including Amazon’s Hunters and Jordan Peele comedy series Weird City.
Lanier joins as SVP, Scripted Television. He will report to Village Roadshow’s Alix Jaffe, EVP, Television.
He will help the company produce scripted content across all platforms including streaming, network, and syndication.
Lanier joins from Sreda Global, where he was SVP, establishing an LA studio for the international company. He was previously VP, Television Series and Digital at Sonar Entertainment, where he produced Weird City and Amazon docuseries Lorena as well as exec producing Team Downey’s YouTube Premium docuseries The Age of AI.
In addition to helping develop and oversee Hunters, he had a four year stint at Legendary Television, serving as Vice President, Television and Digital Studios, and also worked for veteran film producer Hunt Lowry.
- 6/17/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Chambers producer Andrew Nunnelly is adapting The Lost Voices From The Titanic: The Definitive Oral History, the non-fiction tome written by Dr. Nicholas Barratt, for Sreda Global.
The limited series titled Dead Reckoning is a thriller set amidst the aftermath of the sinking of the Titanic that combines horror and supernatural elements with a never before told true story revealing the truth of what really sunk down the ship — and the otherworldly, haunting details that defy explanation to this day.
Characters in Dead Reckoning will include historical figures, heads of state, titans of industry — from Churchill, Jp Morgan, and Hg Wells to the halls of Congress and the White House — as they play world chess with the Titanic… While survivors and victims, their stories untold until now, have their voices heard for the first time.
Nunnelly will write the script. Production is currently searching for a director. Alexander Tsekalo...
The limited series titled Dead Reckoning is a thriller set amidst the aftermath of the sinking of the Titanic that combines horror and supernatural elements with a never before told true story revealing the truth of what really sunk down the ship — and the otherworldly, haunting details that defy explanation to this day.
Characters in Dead Reckoning will include historical figures, heads of state, titans of industry — from Churchill, Jp Morgan, and Hg Wells to the halls of Congress and the White House — as they play world chess with the Titanic… While survivors and victims, their stories untold until now, have their voices heard for the first time.
Nunnelly will write the script. Production is currently searching for a director. Alexander Tsekalo...
- 12/15/2021
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: In a competitive situation, Jessica Rhoades’ Pacesetter and Alexander Tsekalo’s Sreda Global have secured the rights to David Hill’s praised 2020 book The Vapors for television, with The Loudest Voice executive producer/showrunner Alex Metcalf attached to pen the series adaptation.
A lifelong personal passion of Metcalf’s, The Vapors tells the unknown story of Hot Springs, Arkansas – America’s forgotten capital of vice. Home to healing waters, dozens of churches, and America’s original national park as well as illegal gambling, countless backrooms and brothels, and some of the country’s most bald-faced criminals. For decades, Hot Springs was a pocket of sin in the buckle of the Bible Belt. This is the story of gangsters gone good, believers gone bad and the growth of Black Broadway, supported by a burgeoning African-American middle class in the center of the Jim Crow South.
Metcalf, Rhoades, and Hill will...
A lifelong personal passion of Metcalf’s, The Vapors tells the unknown story of Hot Springs, Arkansas – America’s forgotten capital of vice. Home to healing waters, dozens of churches, and America’s original national park as well as illegal gambling, countless backrooms and brothels, and some of the country’s most bald-faced criminals. For decades, Hot Springs was a pocket of sin in the buckle of the Bible Belt. This is the story of gangsters gone good, believers gone bad and the growth of Black Broadway, supported by a burgeoning African-American middle class in the center of the Jim Crow South.
Metcalf, Rhoades, and Hill will...
- 2/2/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Hey Alexa, how is artificial intelligence reshaping our world? Robert Downey Jr. will explain in The Age of A.I., a new documentary series from YouTube originals that premieres December 18. Check out the first trailer above and key art below.
The eight-episode series takes a deep dive into the fascinating world of the most transformational technology in the history of humankind, per YouTube’s logline. Downey brings an irreverent enthusiasm and curiosity to the screen as the learning series takes an immersive look at artificial intelligence and its potential to change the planet.
In each episode, viewers will meet the people on the front lines of A.I. – the scientists, innovators and dreamers who are shaping the future and the real people whose lives might be changed forever as technology races to tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges.
The premiere episode follows co-founder of Soul Machines, Mark Sagar, an...
The eight-episode series takes a deep dive into the fascinating world of the most transformational technology in the history of humankind, per YouTube’s logline. Downey brings an irreverent enthusiasm and curiosity to the screen as the learning series takes an immersive look at artificial intelligence and its potential to change the planet.
In each episode, viewers will meet the people on the front lines of A.I. – the scientists, innovators and dreamers who are shaping the future and the real people whose lives might be changed forever as technology races to tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges.
The premiere episode follows co-founder of Soul Machines, Mark Sagar, an...
- 12/12/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
For months, industry insiders have been growing increasingly concerned about what appeared to be a cash-flow issue at independent studio Sonar Entertainment.
Multiple sources report that Sonar has been late on payments for writers on scripts and to talent agencies for packaging fees. The slowdown in the payment schedule has raised questions about Sonar’s ability to continue funding shows. The company has also seen a number of executive departures in recent months. A new CEO was appointed in August.
According to a source familiar with the situation, Sonar has been juggling payments to writers and agencies after its parent company, Canadian private equity firm Catalyst Capital Group tightened the purse strings in advance of the management shakeup implemented last month. With 10 shows in production, sources said Sonar took the step of delaying some writer and packaging fee payments in order to manage its cash-flow needs.
But slowing down the...
Multiple sources report that Sonar has been late on payments for writers on scripts and to talent agencies for packaging fees. The slowdown in the payment schedule has raised questions about Sonar’s ability to continue funding shows. The company has also seen a number of executive departures in recent months. A new CEO was appointed in August.
According to a source familiar with the situation, Sonar has been juggling payments to writers and agencies after its parent company, Canadian private equity firm Catalyst Capital Group tightened the purse strings in advance of the management shakeup implemented last month. With 10 shows in production, sources said Sonar took the step of delaying some writer and packaging fee payments in order to manage its cash-flow needs.
But slowing down the...
- 9/13/2019
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
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