Live Nation Productions today announced two key hires for its production and development departments. Veteran producer and studio exec Matthew Stein will be the company’s new Head of Scripted Development and Production, while Emmy Award-winning producer Ryan Kroft has been named Head of Unscripted Development and Production. Both will report into Heather Parry, Live Nation Productions’ President of Production, Film and Television.
Stein joins the company just before the release of the company’s first scripted features, “A Star Is Born” and “After Party.” He joins after several years at Sony, where he most recently had a film and television production deal and earlier served as a VP at Sony Pictures International Productions. Earlier in his career, he spent 12 years at Dimension Films, rising through the ranks to co-chairman and ultimately Evp of Production, overseeing all phases of production, development and casting for the division.
Kroft joins after 20 years at Viacom,...
Stein joins the company just before the release of the company’s first scripted features, “A Star Is Born” and “After Party.” He joins after several years at Sony, where he most recently had a film and television production deal and earlier served as a VP at Sony Pictures International Productions. Earlier in his career, he spent 12 years at Dimension Films, rising through the ranks to co-chairman and ultimately Evp of Production, overseeing all phases of production, development and casting for the division.
Kroft joins after 20 years at Viacom,...
- 8/6/2018
- by Jem Aswad
- Variety Film + TV
Microsoft continues to work on its all-you-can play subscription service Gamepass, developing new ways to make games easy to play as you download and expanding the library, Xbox software engineering manager Ashley Speicher said during Microsoft’s E3 press conference Sunday afternoon.
The company is working on something called FastStart which leverages machine learning to grant gamers faster access to all of the games in the Gamepass library, she said. The new technology will launch with the June update coming later this month.
She also went through a number of games coming to the subscription service later this year including ‘Halo Master Chief Collection,” “Forza 4 Horizons,” “Crackdown 3” and more, all coming on the same day as their global releases. In terms of third-party games, she noted that “Ashen,” “Warhammer Vermintide 2,” “After Party,” and “Pheonix Point” will all hit same day as global release on Gamepass.
And today, she concluded, “The Division,...
The company is working on something called FastStart which leverages machine learning to grant gamers faster access to all of the games in the Gamepass library, she said. The new technology will launch with the June update coming later this month.
She also went through a number of games coming to the subscription service later this year including ‘Halo Master Chief Collection,” “Forza 4 Horizons,” “Crackdown 3” and more, all coming on the same day as their global releases. In terms of third-party games, she noted that “Ashen,” “Warhammer Vermintide 2,” “After Party,” and “Pheonix Point” will all hit same day as global release on Gamepass.
And today, she concluded, “The Division,...
- 6/10/2018
- by Brian Crecente
- Variety Film + TV
If early reviews (which have all had very good things to say) are any indicator, Noah Hawley (Fargo) has done it again, and we should be in for the mind trip of a lifetime when FX officially rolls out their upcoming X-Men spin-off series, Legion, on February 8. The series stars Dan Stevens (Beauty and the Beast) as David Haller as he tries to navigate his new superpowered reality and determine whether or not what he's seeing is actually there. He'll be joined in his mind-bending quest by Rachel Keller (Fargo), Jean Smart (The Accountant), Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation), Jeremie Harris (After Party), Amber Midthunder (Hell or High Water), Katie Aselton (The League), Bill Irwin (Bastards), and Jemaine Clement (Moana). FX recently debuted a ton of new photos from the show, featuring practically everyone from the main cast, so scroll down below to check out twenty-eight new promotional stlls: Legion,...
- 1/26/2017
- ComicBookMovie.com
Critics have been heaping all kinds of praise on FX's upcoming X-Men spin-off series Legion all week and in just around two weeks, we'll all get to enjoy Noah Hawley's latest television creation. The series stars Dan Stevens (Beauty and the Beast) as Charles Xavier's mutant son David Haller and follows him through his institutionalization as he tries to gain a grasp on reality. He's joined by Rachel Keller (Fargo), Jean Smart (The Accountant), Aubrey Plaza (Ingrid Goes West), Jeremie Harris (After Party), Amber Midthunder (Hell or High Water), Katie Aselton (The League), Bill Irwin (Bastards), and Jemaine Clement (Moana). Check out a cool new promo below: Legion, based on the Marvel Comics by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz, is the story of David Haller (Dan Stevens) – a troubled young man who may be more than human. Diagnosed as schizophrenic as a child, David has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years.
- 1/22/2017
- ComicBookMovie.com
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