Exclusive: Steve Michaels, boss of Asylum Entertainment Group, is continuing his Endeavor-backed M&a drive.
The company has invested in British production company Soho Studios Entertainment, founded by former Alaska TV and Zodiak exec Ian Lamarra.
It marks the latest investment for Michaels’ group, which bought a stake in Dawn Airey’s British production company Moon&Back Media last September.
It comes nearly a year after WME owner Endeavor acquired a majority stake in Asylum with plans to “supercharge” its footprint with a major M&a drive that has seen it invest in a number of nonscripted businesses.
Soho Studios was founded by Lamarra in 2022 with former Objective Media Group boss Paul Sandler and Money Group Entertainment CEO Francis Ridley as co-founding directors.
Its first series order was for ITV’s The Playboy Bunny Murder, a two-part documentary series from Marcel Theroux, which told the murders of three young women in London,...
The company has invested in British production company Soho Studios Entertainment, founded by former Alaska TV and Zodiak exec Ian Lamarra.
It marks the latest investment for Michaels’ group, which bought a stake in Dawn Airey’s British production company Moon&Back Media last September.
It comes nearly a year after WME owner Endeavor acquired a majority stake in Asylum with plans to “supercharge” its footprint with a major M&a drive that has seen it invest in a number of nonscripted businesses.
Soho Studios was founded by Lamarra in 2022 with former Objective Media Group boss Paul Sandler and Money Group Entertainment CEO Francis Ridley as co-founding directors.
Its first series order was for ITV’s The Playboy Bunny Murder, a two-part documentary series from Marcel Theroux, which told the murders of three young women in London,...
- 2/8/2024
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Welcome to Deadline’s The Hot Ones, our guide to some of the best television being sold at Mipcom next week. Our editorial team has done extensive research in the run-up to the 2023 market and handpicked what we think are sure to be the shows that will be big talking points at this year’s event in Cannes. In between meetings and cocktail parties, you’re sure to hear whispers about the next potential global hit and The Hot Ones is here to guide you. Here’s three top docs headed for the Croisette.
The Playboy Bunny Murders
Distributor: Blue Ant International
Length: 2×60’
Producers: Soho Studios, Future Studios
The Playboy Bunny Murders is a story so pressing that its presenter Marcel Theroux was “going to do it whether there was a TV commission or not,” says executive producer John Farrar of the Itvx two-parter.
Theroux, older brother of recent MacTaggart lecture giver Louis Theroux,...
The Playboy Bunny Murders
Distributor: Blue Ant International
Length: 2×60’
Producers: Soho Studios, Future Studios
The Playboy Bunny Murders is a story so pressing that its presenter Marcel Theroux was “going to do it whether there was a TV commission or not,” says executive producer John Farrar of the Itvx two-parter.
Theroux, older brother of recent MacTaggart lecture giver Louis Theroux,...
- 10/12/2023
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline Film + TV
Marcel Theroux To Investigate Playboy Bunny Murders
Louis Theroux’s brother Marcel Theroux is to investigate the playboy bunny murders for Itvx. In The Playboy Bunny Murders, the novelist will examine the brutal murders that shocked London in the 1970s, when Eve Stratford, a Playboy Bunny who aspired to be a famous model, Lynda Farrow, a croupier with years of experience working in nighttime London, and Lynne Weedon, a schoolgirl whose whole life lay ahead of her, were all murdered. Itvx has gained exclusive access to friends, colleagues and relatives of the victims and will provide intimate insight, as Theroux attempts to track down police files, examines new breakthroughs and travels across the world in search of answers. Soho Studios and Future Studios are producing the two-parter for the ITV streaming service. Theroux said the story has “obsessed him for years.” Executive producers are Ian Lamarra for Soho Studios and John Farrar for Future Studios.
Louis Theroux’s brother Marcel Theroux is to investigate the playboy bunny murders for Itvx. In The Playboy Bunny Murders, the novelist will examine the brutal murders that shocked London in the 1970s, when Eve Stratford, a Playboy Bunny who aspired to be a famous model, Lynda Farrow, a croupier with years of experience working in nighttime London, and Lynne Weedon, a schoolgirl whose whole life lay ahead of her, were all murdered. Itvx has gained exclusive access to friends, colleagues and relatives of the victims and will provide intimate insight, as Theroux attempts to track down police files, examines new breakthroughs and travels across the world in search of answers. Soho Studios and Future Studios are producing the two-parter for the ITV streaming service. Theroux said the story has “obsessed him for years.” Executive producers are Ian Lamarra for Soho Studios and John Farrar for Future Studios.
- 5/25/2023
- by Max Goldbart and Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Restructuring
Multinational cinema operator Cineworld‘s proposed restructuring now has the backing of most of its lenders, the company said on Thursday.
The restructuring, which was announced in April, “now has the support of lenders holding and controlling approximately 99% of the legacy facilities and at least 69% of the outstanding indebtedness under the debtor-in-possession facility of Cineworld and certain of its subsidiaries,” the group said in a statement.
Cineworld Group and its subsidiaries had commenced Chapter 11 cases in the United States Bankruptcy Court in September 2022. The group now expects to emerge from the Chapter 11 cases in July and will continue to operate its cinemas as usual without interruption, it said.
The lenders have also agreed to amended and restated versions of the restructuring support agreement and the backstop commitment agreement, which were filed with the United States Bankruptcy Court.
Cineworld owns the Regal cinema chain and is the second largest movie theater operator in the world.
Multinational cinema operator Cineworld‘s proposed restructuring now has the backing of most of its lenders, the company said on Thursday.
The restructuring, which was announced in April, “now has the support of lenders holding and controlling approximately 99% of the legacy facilities and at least 69% of the outstanding indebtedness under the debtor-in-possession facility of Cineworld and certain of its subsidiaries,” the group said in a statement.
Cineworld Group and its subsidiaries had commenced Chapter 11 cases in the United States Bankruptcy Court in September 2022. The group now expects to emerge from the Chapter 11 cases in July and will continue to operate its cinemas as usual without interruption, it said.
The lenders have also agreed to amended and restated versions of the restructuring support agreement and the backstop commitment agreement, which were filed with the United States Bankruptcy Court.
Cineworld owns the Regal cinema chain and is the second largest movie theater operator in the world.
- 5/25/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Unreported World | Castle | 4Funnies: Uncle | James Bond 50th Anniversary Gala Concert | Jack Irish: Bad Debts | An Idiot Abroad
Unreported World
7.30pm, Channel 4
Ksenia Sobchak is about as well connected as one can get in Russia. Raised as part of the elite that got rich in the wake of the collapse of the Ussr, she was, until recently, best known as a socialite and Big Brother host. Then she started criticising family friend Vladimir Putin's government. Instead of appearing on mainstream TV, she now hosts a political discussion show on a small cable channel, and armed cops have raided her flat. Reporter Marcel Theroux and director David Fuller meet Sobchak, and look on as she records an interview with Pussy Riot's Katya Samutsevich. Jonathan Wright
Castle
10pm, Channel 5
A retired bank robber is found dead in his car, seemingly the result of an interrogation that went too far. Castle...
Unreported World
7.30pm, Channel 4
Ksenia Sobchak is about as well connected as one can get in Russia. Raised as part of the elite that got rich in the wake of the collapse of the Ussr, she was, until recently, best known as a socialite and Big Brother host. Then she started criticising family friend Vladimir Putin's government. Instead of appearing on mainstream TV, she now hosts a political discussion show on a small cable channel, and armed cops have raided her flat. Reporter Marcel Theroux and director David Fuller meet Sobchak, and look on as she records an interview with Pussy Riot's Katya Samutsevich. Jonathan Wright
Castle
10pm, Channel 5
A retired bank robber is found dead in his car, seemingly the result of an interrogation that went too far. Castle...
- 12/14/2012
- by Jonathan Wright, Phelim O'Neill, Ben Arnold, Martin Skegg, Ali Catterall, Julia Raeside
- The Guardian - Film News
By the Associated Press
Tycoons, evolution and the environment were among the subjects of this year's National Book Award nominees.
Marcel Theroux's global-warming novel, ''Far North,'' and T.J. Stiles' ''The First Tycoon,'' a biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt, were some of the finalists announced Wednesday. Two books about evolution, including a story for young people about Charles Darwin, were also nominated.
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Tycoons, evolution and the environment were among the subjects of this year's National Book Award nominees.
Marcel Theroux's global-warming novel, ''Far North,'' and T.J. Stiles' ''The First Tycoon,'' a biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt, were some of the finalists announced Wednesday. Two books about evolution, including a story for young people about Charles Darwin, were also nominated.
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- 10/14/2009
- by Glenn Abel
- The Wrap
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