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Vice Studios docs boss Alex Moore is exiting to join Banijay label Dragonfly.

The two-time Oscar winner will take up a newly-created role as Executive Vice President Documentaries and Unscripted as the Ambulance and Then Barbara Met Alan label, which is being given more funding of late, pushes into the premium space.

Reporting into MD Richard Bond when he starts next month, Moore will develop the slate with an emphasis on U.S. and international streamer commissions.

A Vice spokeswoman said the company will not replace Moore and senior non-fiction execs based in the UK will now report directly to LA-based Chief Content Officer Danny Gabai.

Moore joined Vice Studios in 2020 and his division was responsible for a string of global shows including Lewis Capaldi: How I’m Feeling Right Now (Netflix), Encounters (Netflix) and Max Verstappen: Anatomy of a Champion (Viaplay). Most recently he co-created and executive produced (with...

The English dub of Classroom Of The Elite season 3 has made its way to Crunchyroll, and fans can now catch up to the latest episodes of the dub starting on Jan 17, 2024.

Crunchyroll also revealed the cast and staff involved in Classroom Of The Elite Season 3 English dub.

Classroom Of The Elite Season 3 English dub cast includes:

Apphia Yu as Akane Brandon McInnis as Sudo Bryson Baugus as Sumida Alex Moore as Hasebe Austin Tindle as Hashimoto Veronica Laux as Hiyori Aaron Dismuke as Ike Aaron Roberts as Ishizaki Chris Wehkamp as Koenji Belsheber Rusape as Moriyama Kent Williams as Mashima Jordan Dash Cruz as Miyake Jessie James Grelle as Yukimura

Staff includes:

Voice Director: Helena Walstrom Producer: Samantha Herek Adaptation: Emily Neves Engineer: Derric Benavides

Classroom Of The Elite season 3 started airing on Jan 3, 2024.

The third season’s opening theme, “Minor Piece” is performed by Zaq, while the ending theme,...

There was one moment, Alex Moore confesses, when he felt like Emperor of Wigan. Due to play a local show at a roller-skating rink a few days ago, this unassuming singer – frontman of breakout indie rockers The Lathums, the town’s biggest local heroes since The Verve – decided, naively perhaps, to walk the only road down to the gig. Right into the arms of an adoring mob.

“Everybody that was going to the gig was on that road,” the 23-year-old grins coyly, leaning into the wreckage of bongs and crisp packets littering the kitchen table in the band’s HQ. “Got noticed immediately, literally a couple of steps, [everyone was] taking pictures and that. And then they all just lifted me up. Honestly, hundreds of people lifted me up and carried me to the venue. I didn’t take a single step. They were carrying me going: ‘Alex! Alex!’”

It’s exactly...

In today’s Global Bulletin, El Gouna announces CineGouna Platform finalists, “Decrypted” gets back to filming in the U.K. after a five-month layoff, Zdf boards a Danish co-production and Vice appoints a new VP for its U.K. non-fiction branch.

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Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival (Gff), rescheduled to take place in person Oct. 23-31, has announced the 18 finalist projects selected to participate in this year’s 4th edition of the CineGouna Platform for projects produced or co-produced by Mena countries, running Oct. 25-30.

Also in its fourth year, CineGouna SpringBoard, a co-production lab dedicated to supporting regional projects, will feature 65 projects in development and 34 films in post-production.

This year, 18 projects were selected to participate in CineGouna Platform, 12 in development and six in post. At the end of the Platform, a best project will be selected and receive the CineGounda Platform Certificate and a cash prize of $15,000.

“CineGouna...

Exclusive: Vice Studios has hired Alex Moore, the CEO of the two-time Oscar-winning company Grain Media, to the newly-created role of vice-president of non-fiction in the UK.

Based in London, Moore will build Vice Studios’ slate across factual, factual entertainment, formats, documentaries, and features. He reports to UK creative director Yonni Usiskin.

During his five-year tenure at Grain Media, the company won two Oscars for Netflix’s The White Helmets and A&e Networks’ Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl). His other credits include Netflix Charli Xcx series I’m With The Band: Nasty Cherry and BBC Two’s Seahorse.

“Alex has an enviable record in successfully conceiving, developing and delivering award-winning programming both in the UK and internationally,” said Usiskin.

Moore added: “To me, the Vice brand has always stood out in our industry as pioneers of brave, authentic, contemporary content and I look forward to drawing on that.