Magnum P.I. was one of the most successful TV shows of the ’80s. With Tom Selleck in the lead, the crime drama aired on CBS from 1980 to 1988. Three decades have passed since the show went off the air, and the series has seen several actors die. One Magnum P.I. cast member — Roger E. Mosley — suffered a tragic death after a paralyzing car crash last year.
Roger E. Mosley played a helicopter pilot in ‘Magnum P.I.’ Roger E. Mosley (left), Larry Manetti, Tom Selleck, John Hillerman, and Jillie Mack in ‘Magnum P.I.’ in 1985 | CBS via Getty Images
The original Magnum P.I. follows a laid-back, aloha shirt–wearing private investigator living on a luxurious beach estate owned by a wealthy author after Magnum solves one of his cases. Thomas Sullivan Magnum (Selleck) doesn’t take many cases unless they suit him. And although his life in Hawaii is mostly breezy, he often...
Roger E. Mosley played a helicopter pilot in ‘Magnum P.I.’ Roger E. Mosley (left), Larry Manetti, Tom Selleck, John Hillerman, and Jillie Mack in ‘Magnum P.I.’ in 1985 | CBS via Getty Images
The original Magnum P.I. follows a laid-back, aloha shirt–wearing private investigator living on a luxurious beach estate owned by a wealthy author after Magnum solves one of his cases. Thomas Sullivan Magnum (Selleck) doesn’t take many cases unless they suit him. And although his life in Hawaii is mostly breezy, he often...
- 3/1/2023
- by Produced by Digital Editors
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Exclusive: The Oscar Animated Feature race just got reduced by one.
Paramount and Nickelodeon’s The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run has withdrawn from the competition, so now instead of 27 entries — as the Academy announced on January 28 — there are 26 remaining, providing all of them meet eligibility requirements and complete qualification runs, whether in a theater, drive-in, steaming service or on VOD.
The Academy today notified those members who have signed up to participate in the category.
“Dear Animated Feature Voting Committee Member,
We hope you have been enjoying the submitted Animated Feature films. We wanted you to be aware of some submission updates:
The film titled Nos Ili Zagovor Ne Takikh has been updated to its English-language title The Nose or the Conspiracy of Mavericks. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run has elected to withdraw from consideration and will no longer be available to view on Academy Screening Room.
Paramount and Nickelodeon’s The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run has withdrawn from the competition, so now instead of 27 entries — as the Academy announced on January 28 — there are 26 remaining, providing all of them meet eligibility requirements and complete qualification runs, whether in a theater, drive-in, steaming service or on VOD.
The Academy today notified those members who have signed up to participate in the category.
“Dear Animated Feature Voting Committee Member,
We hope you have been enjoying the submitted Animated Feature films. We wanted you to be aware of some submission updates:
The film titled Nos Ili Zagovor Ne Takikh has been updated to its English-language title The Nose or the Conspiracy of Mavericks. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run has elected to withdraw from consideration and will no longer be available to view on Academy Screening Room.
- 2/12/2021
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Grindstone Entertainment has acquired North American rights to animated fantasy movie Mosley, whose voice cast includes Lucy Lawless (Xena: Warrior Princess), John Rhys-Davies (The Lord of the Rings trilogy), Temuera Morrison (Star Wars) and Rhys Darby (Jumanji).
Written and directed by Kirby Atkins, the film became the first ever New Zealand-China animated co-production. It had its world premiere at last year’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival.
Pic follows a species of creatures known as “thoriphants” who rebel against their life of servitude and embark on a treacherous journey to find the fabled city of Uprights.
Grindstone’s Stan Wertlieb and Ryan Black brokered the deal with Huhu Studios, Jack Sheehan, and Jeremie Guiraud at Lotus Entertainment. The firm, which has a long-standing partnership with Lionsgate in North America, is planning to release the film later this year.
Mosley had already pre-sold it to Australia/New Zealand (Rialto), C.
Written and directed by Kirby Atkins, the film became the first ever New Zealand-China animated co-production. It had its world premiere at last year’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival.
Pic follows a species of creatures known as “thoriphants” who rebel against their life of servitude and embark on a treacherous journey to find the fabled city of Uprights.
Grindstone’s Stan Wertlieb and Ryan Black brokered the deal with Huhu Studios, Jack Sheehan, and Jeremie Guiraud at Lotus Entertainment. The firm, which has a long-standing partnership with Lionsgate in North America, is planning to release the film later this year.
Mosley had already pre-sold it to Australia/New Zealand (Rialto), C.
- 2/9/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
A week ago, the race for the Best Animated Feature Oscar seemed as if it could have the smallest field of entries in years. Only 13 films were in the online screening room devoted to the category, although some significant contenders were clearly going to be added, Pixar’s “Soul,” Cartoon Saloon’s “Wolfwalkers” and Gkids’ “Earwig and the Witch” among them.
But on Friday, Jan. 15, voters in the category awoke to find that the size of the race had essentially doubled. Instead of 13 films in the screening room, there were 27, with the newcomers including not just “Soul” and “Wolfwalkers” and “Earwig and the Witch,” but also films from Denmark (“Dreambuilders”), Poland (“Kill It and Leave This Town”), Latvia (“My Favorite War”), South Korea (“Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs”) and India (“Bombay Rose”), as well as a Croatian movie with the intriguing and confounding title “Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Water Rebus.
But on Friday, Jan. 15, voters in the category awoke to find that the size of the race had essentially doubled. Instead of 13 films in the screening room, there were 27, with the newcomers including not just “Soul” and “Wolfwalkers” and “Earwig and the Witch,” but also films from Denmark (“Dreambuilders”), Poland (“Kill It and Leave This Town”), Latvia (“My Favorite War”), South Korea (“Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs”) and India (“Bombay Rose”), as well as a Croatian movie with the intriguing and confounding title “Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Water Rebus.
- 1/18/2021
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Director Kirby Adkins says his greatest fear about “Mosley,” his ambitious animated feature about fantasy creatures called thoriphants, was that too many compromises would have to get made along the way — and that the movie would become “screwed up.”
Making “Mosley” as an international production — it is the first film to make use of the bilateral New Zealand-China treaty — and delivering a nuanced, family story that goes beyond purely kids’ entertainment, both seem to add to the risks.
Previously called “Beast of Burden,” the film follows the eponymous hero Mosley and his family of intelligent four-legged creatures who have the ability to speak like humans but who have been cursed to live a life of servitude. In an attempt to free his family, Mosley embarks on a perilous journey to find the mythical land of Kinesareth.
That it avoided most pitfalls and has now begun its theatrical career, kicking off through Rialto in New Zealand,...
Making “Mosley” as an international production — it is the first film to make use of the bilateral New Zealand-China treaty — and delivering a nuanced, family story that goes beyond purely kids’ entertainment, both seem to add to the risks.
Previously called “Beast of Burden,” the film follows the eponymous hero Mosley and his family of intelligent four-legged creatures who have the ability to speak like humans but who have been cursed to live a life of servitude. In an attempt to free his family, Mosley embarks on a perilous journey to find the mythical land of Kinesareth.
That it avoided most pitfalls and has now begun its theatrical career, kicking off through Rialto in New Zealand,...
- 11/7/2019
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
It is no small irony that while New Zealand competes with Canada, the U.K. and Australia for foreign productions, those three English-language territories have historically also been the country’s most frequent partners for co-productions. But the tide is turning.
New Zealand has reached out more within the Asian region, and as it has strengthened its case as a partner through a growing web of bilateral co-production treaties. In the past three years, China, Australia and Germany have been the busiest partners.
In other industries, notably dairy, wine and tourism, New Zealand’s relationship with China is already substantial, but still growing. The entertainment business relationship is accelerating thanks to a WeChat presence, a “China Club” that organizes regular visits and outreach events with that country and entrepreneurial individual producers: Pukeko Pictures with TV shows “Kiddets” and “Book Hungry Bears”; Nhnz in the factual and TV space; and Huhu Studios in animation.
New Zealand has reached out more within the Asian region, and as it has strengthened its case as a partner through a growing web of bilateral co-production treaties. In the past three years, China, Australia and Germany have been the busiest partners.
In other industries, notably dairy, wine and tourism, New Zealand’s relationship with China is already substantial, but still growing. The entertainment business relationship is accelerating thanks to a WeChat presence, a “China Club” that organizes regular visits and outreach events with that country and entrepreneurial individual producers: Pukeko Pictures with TV shows “Kiddets” and “Book Hungry Bears”; Nhnz in the factual and TV space; and Huhu Studios in animation.
- 11/7/2019
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Chinese drama “So Long, My Son” was nominated in six categories for this year’s Asia Pacific Screen Awards, an unprecedented haul that makes the Wang Xiaoshuai-directed film a clear favorite.
A drama about separation, secrets, a lifetime of regret, and the consequences of China’s one-child policy, “So Long, My Son” had its premiere in February at the Berlin festival. There it won Silver Bear prizes for both lead actor Wang Jingchun and actress Yong Mei. Both received Apsa nominations, most of which were announced Wednesday.
Those unveiled encompass 11 categories, and cover 37 films from 22 countries and territories.
China emerged as the dominant contender. Seven mainland Chinese films together earned 13 nominations, more than double the six nods for films from Iran and four for pictures from India.
Surprisingly, Bong Joon-ho’s “Parasite,” which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes and is considered a hot favorite for an Oscar nomination,...
A drama about separation, secrets, a lifetime of regret, and the consequences of China’s one-child policy, “So Long, My Son” had its premiere in February at the Berlin festival. There it won Silver Bear prizes for both lead actor Wang Jingchun and actress Yong Mei. Both received Apsa nominations, most of which were announced Wednesday.
Those unveiled encompass 11 categories, and cover 37 films from 22 countries and territories.
China emerged as the dominant contender. Seven mainland Chinese films together earned 13 nominations, more than double the six nods for films from Iran and four for pictures from India.
Surprisingly, Bong Joon-ho’s “Parasite,” which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes and is considered a hot favorite for an Oscar nomination,...
- 10/16/2019
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: La-based international sales outfit Archstone Distribution has hired former Lotus Entertainment executive Jack Sheehan as President of Worldwide Sales and Development.
Reporting to company partners Scott Martin and Michael Slifkin, Sheehan will lead development on the production slate as well as worldwide sales at upcoming markets including Tiff and Afm. Movies on the slate include upcoming Christina Ricci romance 10 Things We Should Do Before We Break Up and an update of The Little Mermaid featuring Gina Gerhson and Shirley MacLaine. Also on the slate are action-adventure Paradise Burning, comedy-horror Slay Ride, and comedy-drama Mojo Mamas.
Sheehan was previously VP of sales and acquisitions at Lotus. He recently produced comedy 1st Born starring Val Kilmer, Tom Berenger and Denise Richards and executive-produced animated film Mosley and documentary Madonna And The Breakfast Club. At the company he brokered sales deals for Keanu Reeves-starrer Replicas and Halle Berry action pic Kidnap.
Reporting to company partners Scott Martin and Michael Slifkin, Sheehan will lead development on the production slate as well as worldwide sales at upcoming markets including Tiff and Afm. Movies on the slate include upcoming Christina Ricci romance 10 Things We Should Do Before We Break Up and an update of The Little Mermaid featuring Gina Gerhson and Shirley MacLaine. Also on the slate are action-adventure Paradise Burning, comedy-horror Slay Ride, and comedy-drama Mojo Mamas.
Sheehan was previously VP of sales and acquisitions at Lotus. He recently produced comedy 1st Born starring Val Kilmer, Tom Berenger and Denise Richards and executive-produced animated film Mosley and documentary Madonna And The Breakfast Club. At the company he brokered sales deals for Keanu Reeves-starrer Replicas and Halle Berry action pic Kidnap.
- 8/5/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Lotus Entertainment has unveiled the first teaser-trailer for Kirby Atkins’ “Mosley,” an animated family film from Huhu Studios in New Zealand and China Film Animation, the first co-production between the two countries.
Lotus Entertainment, which is representing “Mosley” in international markets, will be premiering the film at the European Film Market in Berlin on Feb. 7.
Lotus has already pre-sold it to Australia/New Zealand (Rialto), C.I.S. (Top Film Distribution), China (China Film Group), Czech Republic/Slovakia (Fenix Distribution), Bulgaria, Ex-Yugoslavia and Romania (Programs 4 Media Limited), Israel (Five Stars), Middle East (Eagle Films), Portugal (Nos Lusomundo), South Africa (Filmfinity) and Vietnam (Ram Indo).
“Mosley” follows the eponymous hero and his family of four-legged “Thoriphants,” intelligent creatures with the ability to speak like humans but that have been cursed to live a life of servitude. In an attempt to free his family, Mosley embarks on a perilous journey to find the mythical land of Kinesareth.
Lotus Entertainment, which is representing “Mosley” in international markets, will be premiering the film at the European Film Market in Berlin on Feb. 7.
Lotus has already pre-sold it to Australia/New Zealand (Rialto), C.I.S. (Top Film Distribution), China (China Film Group), Czech Republic/Slovakia (Fenix Distribution), Bulgaria, Ex-Yugoslavia and Romania (Programs 4 Media Limited), Israel (Five Stars), Middle East (Eagle Films), Portugal (Nos Lusomundo), South Africa (Filmfinity) and Vietnam (Ram Indo).
“Mosley” follows the eponymous hero and his family of four-legged “Thoriphants,” intelligent creatures with the ability to speak like humans but that have been cursed to live a life of servitude. In an attempt to free his family, Mosley embarks on a perilous journey to find the mythical land of Kinesareth.
- 1/24/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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