Arya Stark once asked "What's west of Westeros?" It's a fair question, but it turns out there's only so much of the "Game of Thrones" world that still needs to be filled in. Amidst a full but ever-shifting development slate featuring several "Game of Thrones" spinoffs and prequels, HBO's VP of Original Programming, Kara Buckley, seems to be putting a lid on the number of new shows we might see.
Buckley spoke at Atx Television Festival today, where /Film's Ryan Scott is reporting. On a panel titled "Futurescape: A Look at What's Ahead in TV," the programming VP...
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Buckley spoke at Atx Television Festival today, where /Film's Ryan Scott is reporting. On a panel titled "Futurescape: A Look at What's Ahead in TV," the programming VP...
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- 6/4/2022
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
This has been a good summer at the arthouse, but as Oscar season approaches, it’s clear that the pressures on the specialty film world have never been greater. Fox Searchlight will soon have to prove itself in the Disney hothouse, while Annapurna believes its model can best traditional studios. Amazon is in the midst of a full-scale overhaul, and is looking for a new leader. And everyone’s facing a shrinking specialty market and feels intense pressure from Netflix, which barely engages in theatrical distribution.
Fox Searchlight Has a New Home
Obviously, as Rupert Murdoch’s sale of his Twentieth Century Fox movie and television assets to Disney moves forward, Fox Searchlight is in that mix. So far, Disney executives have been friendly, but current Fox Film chairwoman Stacey Snider wasted no time announcing new multi-year deals — and exalted chairman titles — for 18-year Searchlight veterans Stephen Gilula and Nancy Utley,...
Fox Searchlight Has a New Home
Obviously, as Rupert Murdoch’s sale of his Twentieth Century Fox movie and television assets to Disney moves forward, Fox Searchlight is in that mix. So far, Disney executives have been friendly, but current Fox Film chairwoman Stacey Snider wasted no time announcing new multi-year deals — and exalted chairman titles — for 18-year Searchlight veterans Stephen Gilula and Nancy Utley,...
- 7/26/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
This has been a good summer at the arthouse, but as Oscar season approaches, it’s clear that the pressures on the specialty film world have never been greater. Fox Searchlight will soon have to prove itself in the Disney hothouse, while Annapurna believes its model can best traditional studios. Amazon is in the midst of a full-scale overhaul, and is looking for a new leader. And everyone’s facing a shrinking specialty market and feels intense pressure from Netflix, which barely engages in theatrical distribution.
Fox Searchlight Has a New Home
Obviously, as Rupert Murdoch’s sale of his Twentieth Century Fox movie and television assets to Disney moves forward, Fox Searchlight is in that mix. So far, Disney executives have been friendly, but current Fox Film chairwoman Stacey Snider wasted no time announcing new multi-year deals — and exalted chairman titles — for 18-year Searchlight veterans Stephen Gilula and Nancy Utley,...
Fox Searchlight Has a New Home
Obviously, as Rupert Murdoch’s sale of his Twentieth Century Fox movie and television assets to Disney moves forward, Fox Searchlight is in that mix. So far, Disney executives have been friendly, but current Fox Film chairwoman Stacey Snider wasted no time announcing new multi-year deals — and exalted chairman titles — for 18-year Searchlight veterans Stephen Gilula and Nancy Utley,...
- 7/26/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
In today’s roundup, Tarell Alvin McCraney unveils the cast for his new Own show “David Makes Man,” while “Bachelor in Paradise” has revealed who will be moving to Mexico for a second chance at love in the fifth season.
Casting
Making his television debut, Academy Award-winner Tarell Alvin McCraney (“Moonlight“) has unveiled the cast for his new Own drama series “David Makes Man,” which centers around David, a 14-year-old prodigy from the projects who is haunted by the death of his closest friend and relied upon by his hardworking mother to find a way out of poverty. The drama stars Akili McDowell as David and Phylicia Rashad as Dr. Woods-Trap, an instructor at David’s middle school who will become his advocate. The series also features Nathan Logan McIntyre, Isaiah Johnson, Ade Chike Torbert, Jordan Bolger, Cayden K. Williams, and Travis Coles. Dee Harris-Lawrence will serve as showrunner and will executive produce alongside McCraney,...
Casting
Making his television debut, Academy Award-winner Tarell Alvin McCraney (“Moonlight“) has unveiled the cast for his new Own drama series “David Makes Man,” which centers around David, a 14-year-old prodigy from the projects who is haunted by the death of his closest friend and relied upon by his hardworking mother to find a way out of poverty. The drama stars Akili McDowell as David and Phylicia Rashad as Dr. Woods-Trap, an instructor at David’s middle school who will become his advocate. The series also features Nathan Logan McIntyre, Isaiah Johnson, Ade Chike Torbert, Jordan Bolger, Cayden K. Williams, and Travis Coles. Dee Harris-Lawrence will serve as showrunner and will executive produce alongside McCraney,...
- 6/26/2018
- by Tara Bitran
- Variety Film + TV
Executives report to film, TV production chiefs David Greenbaum and Matthew Greenfield.
Fox Searchlight Pictures has named Kara Buckley and Danny Samit vice-presidents of television, marking the first executive appointments for the recently launched Fox Searchlight Television division.
Samit has for the past four years been director of current series at FX Networks, where he covered drama, comedy and animation, working on series including Atlanta, American Horror Story, and The Strain. Before FX, he worked for Fox International Channels in Hong Kong.
Buckley was most recently director of programming for original series at HBO, where she worked on Sharp Objects,...
Fox Searchlight Pictures has named Kara Buckley and Danny Samit vice-presidents of television, marking the first executive appointments for the recently launched Fox Searchlight Television division.
Samit has for the past four years been director of current series at FX Networks, where he covered drama, comedy and animation, working on series including Atlanta, American Horror Story, and The Strain. Before FX, he worked for Fox International Channels in Hong Kong.
Buckley was most recently director of programming for original series at HBO, where she worked on Sharp Objects,...
- 6/26/2018
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
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