Last year, the London Film Festival was bookended by a pair of Tom Hanks movies. This year, the fest is going in a different direction with opening- and closing-night films set during World War II. The event will open with The Imitation Game on October 8 and now has set David Ayer’s Fury as the capper on October 19. The pic stars Brad Pitt, Shia Labeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Peña, and Jon Bernthal. Pitt and Ayer are confirmed to attend the closing-night festivities in Leicester Square with screenings to be simulcast to cinemas across the UK. The film is set in April 1945 as the Allies make their final push in the European Theater. A battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy (Pitt) commands a five-man Sherman tank crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines where they face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany. Written and directed by Ayer,...
- 8/15/2014
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline
Kevin Levy has been upped to vp program planning and scheduling for the CW.
Additionally, Justin Rosenblatt has joined CW as director alternative programming.
Levy manages all aspects of scheduling series, movies and specials on The CW's schedule and serves as the current programming executive on Friday Night SmackDown! He reports to CBS' senior exec vp program operations Kelly Kahl.
Levy most recently worked as director of program planning and scheduling after transitioning to CW from UPN where he had served in the same capacity.
Rosenblatt is involved in the day-to-day production of CW's current and upcoming reality franchises, including America's Next Top Model, Beauty and the Geek, Crowned: The Mother of all Pageants and Farmer Wants a Wife, as well as the development of new alternative and reality series. He reports to CW's senior vp alternative programming Jennifer Bresnan as well as CBS Par TV's executive vp Ghen Maynard.
Rosenblatt joins The CW from MTV2, where he served as senior director, developing and producing several series and original content for various platforms, including Celebrity Death Match, Wildboyz, and Final Fu. His resume also includes stints at Anonymous Content and Neal Moritz's Original Film.
Additionally, Justin Rosenblatt has joined CW as director alternative programming.
Levy manages all aspects of scheduling series, movies and specials on The CW's schedule and serves as the current programming executive on Friday Night SmackDown! He reports to CBS' senior exec vp program operations Kelly Kahl.
Levy most recently worked as director of program planning and scheduling after transitioning to CW from UPN where he had served in the same capacity.
Rosenblatt is involved in the day-to-day production of CW's current and upcoming reality franchises, including America's Next Top Model, Beauty and the Geek, Crowned: The Mother of all Pageants and Farmer Wants a Wife, as well as the development of new alternative and reality series. He reports to CW's senior vp alternative programming Jennifer Bresnan as well as CBS Par TV's executive vp Ghen Maynard.
Rosenblatt joins The CW from MTV2, where he served as senior director, developing and producing several series and original content for various platforms, including Celebrity Death Match, Wildboyz, and Final Fu. His resume also includes stints at Anonymous Content and Neal Moritz's Original Film.
- 11/21/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
One Tree Hill is returning to the CW schedule as part of a new Tuesday lineup.
The veteran teen soap will have a two-hour season premiere Jan. 8, moving to its regular 9 p.m. slot the following week. Repeats of the new reality series Crowned: The Mother of All Pageants, which will air Wednesdays beginning Dec. 12, will run at 8 p.m.
The CW started the season with a Tuesday lineup of the unscripted series Beauty and the Geek and the freshman Reaper.
The network has yet to decide if the midseason cycle of Beauty will air Tuesday or move to another night. Also uncertain is where on the schedule Reaper will go. The network has a few original episodes left as the 13-episode order of the critically praised but modestly rated series was cut short by the writers strike. With the strike bringing series production to a halt, the CW has yet to decide whether to pick up additional episodes from the show, but that is considered likely.
The veteran teen soap will have a two-hour season premiere Jan. 8, moving to its regular 9 p.m. slot the following week. Repeats of the new reality series Crowned: The Mother of All Pageants, which will air Wednesdays beginning Dec. 12, will run at 8 p.m.
The CW started the season with a Tuesday lineup of the unscripted series Beauty and the Geek and the freshman Reaper.
The network has yet to decide if the midseason cycle of Beauty will air Tuesday or move to another night. Also uncertain is where on the schedule Reaper will go. The network has a few original episodes left as the 13-episode order of the critically praised but modestly rated series was cut short by the writers strike. With the strike bringing series production to a halt, the CW has yet to decide whether to pick up additional episodes from the show, but that is considered likely.
- 11/20/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The CW's Reaper is the latest freshman series to receive an order for additional scripts.
The network on Thursday picked up three additional scripts from the dramedy starring Bret Harrison as a slacker working as the devil's bounty hunter.
Meanwhile, sources said the CW's freshman comedy Aliens in America is set to stay in continuous production after the completion of its 13-episode order in anticipation of a back order.
The CW's rookie drama Gossip Girl was the first new series this season to secure a full-season pickup. There is no word yet on CW's low-rated new drama Life Is Wild.
Reaper, from ABC Studios and the Mark Gordon Co., is one of the best-reviewed freshman series this fall, but the dramedy starring Bret Harrison as a slacker working as the devil's bounty hunter has had a slow start in the ratings in its post-Beauty and the Geek slot on Tuesday.
The network on Thursday picked up three additional scripts from the dramedy starring Bret Harrison as a slacker working as the devil's bounty hunter.
Meanwhile, sources said the CW's freshman comedy Aliens in America is set to stay in continuous production after the completion of its 13-episode order in anticipation of a back order.
The CW's rookie drama Gossip Girl was the first new series this season to secure a full-season pickup. There is no word yet on CW's low-rated new drama Life Is Wild.
Reaper, from ABC Studios and the Mark Gordon Co., is one of the best-reviewed freshman series this fall, but the dramedy starring Bret Harrison as a slacker working as the devil's bounty hunter has had a slow start in the ratings in its post-Beauty and the Geek slot on Tuesday.
- 10/26/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TORONTO -- Alliance Atlantis Communications on Wednesday said it will relaunch Life Network, its long-running lifestyle specialty channel, as Slice, beginning March 1.
The rebranding by Toronto-based broadcaster, comes after a year of exhaustive market research and will target a younger, female demographic with guilty pleasure TV, according to Gail Rivett, Alliance Atlantis senior vp of marketing and publicity.
"Their (young, female viewers) day is filled with meeting everyone's else's needs, and they want a bit of escapism and pure entertainment," Rivett said ahead of a network launch party in Toronto on Wednesday night.
Life Network, which hit the air in 1994 and currently reaches about six million Canadian homes, will be relaunched next spring with 15 new primetime series, including 13 original shows. These include Outlaw/Inlaw, in which Canadian advice columnist Ellie Tesher attempts to straighten out marriages ruined by in-laws, and Uprooted, in which a hair stylist to the stars takes to the road to cut ordinary people's hair before entering a major hair stylist competition.
Other new series include Last Ten Pounds Boot Camp and a Canadian version of Beauty and the Geek.
The rebranding by Toronto-based broadcaster, comes after a year of exhaustive market research and will target a younger, female demographic with guilty pleasure TV, according to Gail Rivett, Alliance Atlantis senior vp of marketing and publicity.
"Their (young, female viewers) day is filled with meeting everyone's else's needs, and they want a bit of escapism and pure entertainment," Rivett said ahead of a network launch party in Toronto on Wednesday night.
Life Network, which hit the air in 1994 and currently reaches about six million Canadian homes, will be relaunched next spring with 15 new primetime series, including 13 original shows. These include Outlaw/Inlaw, in which Canadian advice columnist Ellie Tesher attempts to straighten out marriages ruined by in-laws, and Uprooted, in which a hair stylist to the stars takes to the road to cut ordinary people's hair before entering a major hair stylist competition.
Other new series include Last Ten Pounds Boot Camp and a Canadian version of Beauty and the Geek.
- 11/2/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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