‘Liaison’ Producer Ringside Studios Hires ‘Industry’ Exec
British drama house Ringside Studios has hired Industry and No Escape exec Lee Thomas. He’ll work alongside company founder Gub Neal and Kate Bennetts on Ringside Studios projects and others from investment arm Ringside Media. He’ll also continue to develop his own projects, with Ringside set to produce. Thomas is coming off of No Escape, the Paramount+ thriller series shot in Thailand. His credits also include season one of HBO and BBC drama Industry and ITV true crime series White House Farm. He has produced Shola Amoo’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize-nominated drama feature The Last Tree through his Prodigal label and produced an Oscar-nominated short, The Voorman Problem, which is based on an extract from David Mitchell novel Number9Dream. Ringside Studios, a joint venture between Neal and Newen Content, recently produced Apple TV+ series Liaison, a UK-France co-production starring Eva Green and Vincent Cassel.
British drama house Ringside Studios has hired Industry and No Escape exec Lee Thomas. He’ll work alongside company founder Gub Neal and Kate Bennetts on Ringside Studios projects and others from investment arm Ringside Media. He’ll also continue to develop his own projects, with Ringside set to produce. Thomas is coming off of No Escape, the Paramount+ thriller series shot in Thailand. His credits also include season one of HBO and BBC drama Industry and ITV true crime series White House Farm. He has produced Shola Amoo’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize-nominated drama feature The Last Tree through his Prodigal label and produced an Oscar-nominated short, The Voorman Problem, which is based on an extract from David Mitchell novel Number9Dream. Ringside Studios, a joint venture between Neal and Newen Content, recently produced Apple TV+ series Liaison, a UK-France co-production starring Eva Green and Vincent Cassel.
- 6/29/2023
- by Jesse Whittock and Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Laliga Studios, created by Banijay Iberia and Spain’s Laliga soccer league, is expanding its management team as it has created a new doc co-production, “The Power of Our Fútbol.”
Paz Pérez Sanz, Marta Ruiz and Anabel López Antolín are set to join the company as art director, director of new projects, and director of production respectively.
Sanz comes on board after four years at Real Madrid TV, having created assets for multiple TV companies including Movistar Plus+, Cuatro, Telecinco and Canal+ and worked on campaigns for Disney, Axn, Discovery Max, Turner (TNT and Boing), Comedy Central, MTV and Ondas.
With over 25 years’ in the industry, Ruiz boasts recent credits as director of “Ya Son Las Ocho” and “Secret Story: Última Hora,” and developed “Insiders” for Netflix. Prior to this, she was the director of new projects at Cuarzo Producciones (Banijay Iberia), where she developed and adapted international formats “¡Mira Quién Salta!...
Paz Pérez Sanz, Marta Ruiz and Anabel López Antolín are set to join the company as art director, director of new projects, and director of production respectively.
Sanz comes on board after four years at Real Madrid TV, having created assets for multiple TV companies including Movistar Plus+, Cuatro, Telecinco and Canal+ and worked on campaigns for Disney, Axn, Discovery Max, Turner (TNT and Boing), Comedy Central, MTV and Ondas.
With over 25 years’ in the industry, Ruiz boasts recent credits as director of “Ya Son Las Ocho” and “Secret Story: Última Hora,” and developed “Insiders” for Netflix. Prior to this, she was the director of new projects at Cuarzo Producciones (Banijay Iberia), where she developed and adapted international formats “¡Mira Quién Salta!...
- 6/29/2023
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
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