Film Bridge After Dark Sets ‘Helloween’ As First Film On Genre Slate With Shogun Films
Exclusive: Film Bridge After Dark and Shogun have set British horror pic Helloween as the first title on their joint slate of genre pics. The film is written and directed by Phil Claydon (Lesbian Vampire Killers) and stars Jeanine Nerissa Sothcott (Renegades), Michael Paré (Streets of Fire), and Ronan Summers (Code Of Silence) It’s currently in post-production. Film Bridge will be selling the movie worldwide at Cannes. Set during the sinister “killer clown” craze of 2016, Doctor Ellen Marks (Sothcott), aided by investigative journalist John Parker (Paré), traces the source of the phenomena to one of her patients – incarcerated, charismatic serial killer Carl Cane (Summers) who is using the insidious clown symbolism to recruit an army of the disenfranchised and launched a murderous anarchist movement from London across the globe.
European Film Academy Adds Record...
Exclusive: Film Bridge After Dark and Shogun have set British horror pic Helloween as the first title on their joint slate of genre pics. The film is written and directed by Phil Claydon (Lesbian Vampire Killers) and stars Jeanine Nerissa Sothcott (Renegades), Michael Paré (Streets of Fire), and Ronan Summers (Code Of Silence) It’s currently in post-production. Film Bridge will be selling the movie worldwide at Cannes. Set during the sinister “killer clown” craze of 2016, Doctor Ellen Marks (Sothcott), aided by investigative journalist John Parker (Paré), traces the source of the phenomena to one of her patients – incarcerated, charismatic serial killer Carl Cane (Summers) who is using the insidious clown symbolism to recruit an army of the disenfranchised and launched a murderous anarchist movement from London across the globe.
European Film Academy Adds Record...
- 5/9/2024
- by Zac Ntim and Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: More big names from the animation world have boarded the Israeli company behind interfaith-themed animated series God’s Gang.
Bruno Zarka and Sheri Conn have joined the advisory board of God’s Gang Ltd., a Tel Aviv-based producer created by former Disney Channels exec Nimrod Avraham May.
Zarka is the President of Distribution, and Co-Production for the TV Division of India’s Toonz Media Group and has decades of experience in the kids TV, animation and consumer products worlds.
Conn has held roles such as Head of Worldwide Television Brand Marketing at DreamWorks Animation, Vice President Brand Marketing at Paramount, and Director of Global Marketing at Disney. She currently advises companies such as Netflix, Riot Games, Hallmark Media and Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door Productions.
They join Bruce Daitch, another former DreamWorks Animation exec and former VP of Animation at Netflix, on the advisory board.
God’s Gang’s series of...
Bruno Zarka and Sheri Conn have joined the advisory board of God’s Gang Ltd., a Tel Aviv-based producer created by former Disney Channels exec Nimrod Avraham May.
Zarka is the President of Distribution, and Co-Production for the TV Division of India’s Toonz Media Group and has decades of experience in the kids TV, animation and consumer products worlds.
Conn has held roles such as Head of Worldwide Television Brand Marketing at DreamWorks Animation, Vice President Brand Marketing at Paramount, and Director of Global Marketing at Disney. She currently advises companies such as Netflix, Riot Games, Hallmark Media and Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door Productions.
They join Bruce Daitch, another former DreamWorks Animation exec and former VP of Animation at Netflix, on the advisory board.
God’s Gang’s series of...
- 2/6/2024
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Former Netflix Animation VP Bruce Daitch has joined the producer of God’s Gang.
The Israeli company, which is also called God’s Gang, has signed up Daitch to its advisory board.
Daitch, who is also a former COO and CFO of Dreamworks Animation, will help facilitate new partnerships in funding, production and broadcasting worldwide for new episodes and other content from the series.
God’s Gang was launched by former Disney exec Nimrod Avraham May and is behind the multicultural and multinational series, which brings together four heroes from different faiths: Hinduism, Islam, Christianity and Judaism. Through martial arts, themes of unity and extraordinary adventures, the four characters showcase the power of peace, kindness, and unity for audiences aged 9-19 with a universal appeal.
The online God’s Gang pilot attracted 3 million viewers, according to the company, and the team is understood to be in talks with commissioning networks.
Daitch left...
The Israeli company, which is also called God’s Gang, has signed up Daitch to its advisory board.
Daitch, who is also a former COO and CFO of Dreamworks Animation, will help facilitate new partnerships in funding, production and broadcasting worldwide for new episodes and other content from the series.
God’s Gang was launched by former Disney exec Nimrod Avraham May and is behind the multicultural and multinational series, which brings together four heroes from different faiths: Hinduism, Islam, Christianity and Judaism. Through martial arts, themes of unity and extraordinary adventures, the four characters showcase the power of peace, kindness, and unity for audiences aged 9-19 with a universal appeal.
The online God’s Gang pilot attracted 3 million viewers, according to the company, and the team is understood to be in talks with commissioning networks.
Daitch left...
- 12/6/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix is laying off 30 staffers from its film animation team in the wake of a restructuring to its leadership for that department.
The team, led by Karen Toliver (VP Animation Film Content) and Traci Balthazor (VP Animation Film Production), aims for better collaboration closer to traditional animation film studios, resulting in 30 different roles that are no longer needed, an individual with knowledge of the decision said.
The move is not expected to lead to a downturn in the overall amount of content that Netflix puts out from its film animation unit.
Netflix had no comment.
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Back in July, Toliver was promoted to lead the film animation team and report directly to global film head Scott Stuber. It led to Melissa Cobb and Gregg Taylor shifting to becoming creative producing partners and removing layers from the leadership structure, while...
The team, led by Karen Toliver (VP Animation Film Content) and Traci Balthazor (VP Animation Film Production), aims for better collaboration closer to traditional animation film studios, resulting in 30 different roles that are no longer needed, an individual with knowledge of the decision said.
The move is not expected to lead to a downturn in the overall amount of content that Netflix puts out from its film animation unit.
Netflix had no comment.
Also Read:
Warner Bros. Discovery Begins to Lay Off Hundreds of Workers
Back in July, Toliver was promoted to lead the film animation team and report directly to global film head Scott Stuber. It led to Melissa Cobb and Gregg Taylor shifting to becoming creative producing partners and removing layers from the leadership structure, while...
- 9/14/2022
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Exclusive: We are hearing from sources that Cattywumpus, the Gore Verbinski-directed animated movie about outer space felines, will be getting shopped around town to other studios.
Verbinski, whose films have grossed 3.76 billion and who won an Oscar in 2012 for the Paramount animated movie Rango, had been working on his latest film at Netflix.
Such is the complex nature of animated film production, where quite often halfway through, stories and plans can pivot. There’s a history of that from movies such as Pixar’s Soul and Dinosaur and DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.
Cattywumpus repped Verbinski’s second animated movie after the Johnny Depp-voiced Western Rango, which grossed 246 million at the worldwide box office.
Netflix, we understand, gave the creative team the option to go shop the movie elsewhere.
Netflix has seen promotions and changeovers in its animation executive suite over the summer.
Verbinski, whose films have grossed 3.76 billion and who won an Oscar in 2012 for the Paramount animated movie Rango, had been working on his latest film at Netflix.
Such is the complex nature of animated film production, where quite often halfway through, stories and plans can pivot. There’s a history of that from movies such as Pixar’s Soul and Dinosaur and DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.
Cattywumpus repped Verbinski’s second animated movie after the Johnny Depp-voiced Western Rango, which grossed 246 million at the worldwide box office.
Netflix, we understand, gave the creative team the option to go shop the movie elsewhere.
Netflix has seen promotions and changeovers in its animation executive suite over the summer.
- 9/1/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: After announcing its acquisition of the Australian animation studio Animal Logic during yesterday’s earnings call, Deadline has learned that Netflix is making internal moves that will streamline its coterie of executives who’ll steer the Film Animation division.
Karen Toliver, VP Animation Film, is being promoted to lead the Animation Film team. With that change, Melissa Cobb will move from her role as VP Animation Film but will stay on with Netflix as a producer. Cobb joined the company four years ago and to led the animation team and since then has built the studio from the ground up, attracting filmmakers and delivering a diverse slate of ani films so far.
Also transitioning is Gregg Taylor, the VP Animation Film who’ll also become a producer. He too has been there four years, helping to build the creative team and oversee and shepherd the film slates, most recently The Sea Beast.
Karen Toliver, VP Animation Film, is being promoted to lead the Animation Film team. With that change, Melissa Cobb will move from her role as VP Animation Film but will stay on with Netflix as a producer. Cobb joined the company four years ago and to led the animation team and since then has built the studio from the ground up, attracting filmmakers and delivering a diverse slate of ani films so far.
Also transitioning is Gregg Taylor, the VP Animation Film who’ll also become a producer. He too has been there four years, helping to build the creative team and oversee and shepherd the film slates, most recently The Sea Beast.
- 7/20/2022
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The story of the real-life 1988 protests at all-deaf Gallaudet University that became a watershed moment for the deaf community in the U.S. is being turned into a feature film. Jules Dameron, a Gallaudet alum, wrote and will direct Deaf President Now, which is now casting and aims to begin production later this year.
Sam Sokolow (Nat Geo’s Genius) and Steven Posen are producing the pic along with PhilmCo’s Jonathan Prince and Peter Samuelson. Amy Lanier and Bruce Daitch are executive producing. The team said it is committed to a mixed Asl/English-language production. “We intend this to be the first mainstream film to be fully integrated with a deaf-oriented crew and set,” Posen said.
Posen originated the project with Dameron to tell the story behind the uprising at the Washington DC university, at the time the only all-deaf college in the U.S. The student-led protests...
Sam Sokolow (Nat Geo’s Genius) and Steven Posen are producing the pic along with PhilmCo’s Jonathan Prince and Peter Samuelson. Amy Lanier and Bruce Daitch are executive producing. The team said it is committed to a mixed Asl/English-language production. “We intend this to be the first mainstream film to be fully integrated with a deaf-oriented crew and set,” Posen said.
Posen originated the project with Dameron to tell the story behind the uprising at the Washington DC university, at the time the only all-deaf college in the U.S. The student-led protests...
- 3/2/2022
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix has appointed Bruce Daitch as vice president of animation, Variety has learned. Daitch is an industry veteran, having previously served as both chief operating officer and chief financial officer of Dreamworks Animation, the maker of “Shrek” and “Kung Fu Panda.”
In his new role, Daitch will oversee production strategy and operations for Netflix’s global animation efforts. His appointment comes as Netflix has bet heavily on the kids and family space, partnering with top talent such as Jorge R. Gutiérrez (“Book of Life”), Glen Keane (“The Little Mermaid”), and Nora Twomey (“The Secret of Kells”) on upcoming films and series. That push comes as Disney has entered the streaming fray, offering up its own family-friendly streaming service with Disney Plus.
Daitch will report to Vice President of Physical Production Ty Warren and will work closely with the content and production teams in original animation and original series animation to...
In his new role, Daitch will oversee production strategy and operations for Netflix’s global animation efforts. His appointment comes as Netflix has bet heavily on the kids and family space, partnering with top talent such as Jorge R. Gutiérrez (“Book of Life”), Glen Keane (“The Little Mermaid”), and Nora Twomey (“The Secret of Kells”) on upcoming films and series. That push comes as Disney has entered the streaming fray, offering up its own family-friendly streaming service with Disney Plus.
Daitch will report to Vice President of Physical Production Ty Warren and will work closely with the content and production teams in original animation and original series animation to...
- 5/4/2020
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
The Broadway Dreams Foundation Bdf, a premier non-profit organization dedicated to training, mentoring and providing career opportunities to the next generation of musical theater performers, announced that Victoria T. Morris, CEO of Lexikat Artists Bruce Daitch, Head of Strategy, Planning and Operations for DreamWorks Skg and Nanci Lewis, of The Vanderblue Team, have been elected to the Bdf's Board of Directors, effective January 1, 2016.
- 2/8/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
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