Exclusive: Critical Content’s head of scripted Ray Ricord has joined Gemstone Studios, Sony Pictures TV’s boutique production unit, as Svp Development. Ricord fills the role recently vacated by Kathryn Busby who was named Evp and head of another Sony TV division, TriStar Television. Based at Spt’s headquarters in Culver City, he reports to Marie Jacobson, Evp of Gemstone Studios, effective immediately.
This marks Ricord’s return to Spt where he signed a pod deal in 2011.
In his new role, he will work with emerging and established writers and producers and manage development and production of new series for the Sony TV label focused on non-traditional production models. He also will be identifying platform partners who are open to pursuing the Gemstone style of indie programming. The first project to market is Chris Kelly’s Salvation Road which Ricord co-developed with the Gemstone team at his prior home,...
This marks Ricord’s return to Spt where he signed a pod deal in 2011.
In his new role, he will work with emerging and established writers and producers and manage development and production of new series for the Sony TV label focused on non-traditional production models. He also will be identifying platform partners who are open to pursuing the Gemstone style of indie programming. The first project to market is Chris Kelly’s Salvation Road which Ricord co-developed with the Gemstone team at his prior home,...
- 1/23/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: TV/film writer and author David Matthews has signed a two-year overall deal with Sony Pictures Television. Under the pact, Matthews will develop new series projects under his production company Turned Out Inc. He also will serve as executive producer and showrunner on Sony TV’s horror event series Them, whose first installment is titled Them: Covenant. The project, from creator/executive producer Lil Marvin and exec producer Lena Waithe, has a two-season pickup at Amazon.
Matthews is coming off a stint as co-executive producer on Showtime’s upcoming series Your Honor. Separate from the Sony TV deal, he is developing a limited series at FX based on Manning Marable’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, with Critical Content and Get Lifted.
On the feature side, Matthews is adapting the book Assata Shakur: A 20th Century Escaped Slave, for Outlier Society Productions and Macro. He...
Matthews is coming off a stint as co-executive producer on Showtime’s upcoming series Your Honor. Separate from the Sony TV deal, he is developing a limited series at FX based on Manning Marable’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, with Critical Content and Get Lifted.
On the feature side, Matthews is adapting the book Assata Shakur: A 20th Century Escaped Slave, for Outlier Society Productions and Macro. He...
- 4/1/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Manning Marable’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Malcolm X: A Life Of Reinvention, is being adapted as a television series by Critical Content and writer David Matthews (Boardwalk Empire, Tyrant). Matthews will pen the adaptation with Critical Content’s Tom Forman, Andrew Marcus, Ray Ricord and Jon Schwartz executive producing. Dr. Leith Mullings and Michael Tyner will serve as producers and consultants. Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention is considered the definitive…...
- 8/22/2017
- Deadline TV
Connections to the entertainment business were all but missing from the list of Pulitzer Prize winners announced today. Playwright Quiara Alegria Hudes, whose In The Heights musical was put into turnaround 13 months ago, is probably the closest, taking the Drama award for her play Water By The Spoonful. Others with links to the television business as expert talking heads for documentaries include the late Manning Marable, who won the History prize for his book Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, and John Lewis Gaddis, who took the Biography Pulitzer Prize for George F. Kennan: An American Life. The Pulitzer Prize for fiction, which has yielded such films and TV series as Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, Richard Russo’s Empire Falls, and Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News, was not awarded this year, the first time since 1977 and only the sixth time since the fiction award was first handed...
- 4/16/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
The Pulitzer Prizes for books were announced Monday by Columbia University, and for the first time since 1977 and the sixth time since the award started in 1948, the committee did not award a fiction prize. Gallery: 11 Biggest Book-to-Big Screen Adaptations of the Last 25 Years The prize in General Nonfiction went to The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt. Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable, the Columbia University historian who died on the eve of its publication, won in History. Yale professor John Lewis Gaddis won the Biography prize for George
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- 4/16/2012
- by Andy Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As expected, Tate Taylor's "The Help" won big at the 43rd Annual NAACP Image Awards. The film won Outstanding Picture of the Year with Viola Davis winning Outstanding Actress and Octavia Spencer taking home the Outstanding Supporting Actress award. Taylor lost to "Jumping the Broom's" Salim Akil for Best Director because apparently, it's a better picture than "The Help!"
Here's the complete list of winners (highlighted) and nominees of the 43rd Annual NAACP Image Awards (To visit other award-giving bodies, check out our Awards Avenue coverage right here)
Motion Picture
Outstanding Motion Picture
.Jumping the Broom. (TriStar Pictures)
.Pariah. (Focus Features)
.The First Grader. (National Geographic
Entertainment)
*** .The Help. (DreamWorks Pictures/
Participant Media/Touchstone Pictures)
.Tower Heist. (Universal Pictures)
Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
Eddie Murphy . .Tower Heist.
(Universal Pictures)
Laurence Fishburne . .Contagion.
(Warner Bros. Pictures)
*** Laz Alonso . .Jumping the Broom.
(TriStar Pictures)
Oliver Litondo . .The First...
Here's the complete list of winners (highlighted) and nominees of the 43rd Annual NAACP Image Awards (To visit other award-giving bodies, check out our Awards Avenue coverage right here)
Motion Picture
Outstanding Motion Picture
.Jumping the Broom. (TriStar Pictures)
.Pariah. (Focus Features)
.The First Grader. (National Geographic
Entertainment)
*** .The Help. (DreamWorks Pictures/
Participant Media/Touchstone Pictures)
.Tower Heist. (Universal Pictures)
Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
Eddie Murphy . .Tower Heist.
(Universal Pictures)
Laurence Fishburne . .Contagion.
(Warner Bros. Pictures)
*** Laz Alonso . .Jumping the Broom.
(TriStar Pictures)
Oliver Litondo . .The First...
- 2/19/2012
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
"The Help" continued its hot streak during awards season by being the big winner at the 2012 NAACP Image Awards. The DreamWorks movie took home acting trophies for Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer, plus Outstanding Motion Picture.
The complete list of winners:
Motion Picture Categories
Outstanding Motion Picture
"Jumping the Broom" (TriStar Pictures)
"Pariah" (Focus Features)
"The First Grader" (National Geographic Entertainment)
"The Help" (DreamWorks Pictures)
"Tower Heist" (Universal Pictures)
Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
Eddie Murphy - "Tower Heist" (Universal Pictures)
Laurence Fishburne - "Contagion" (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Laz Alonso - "Jumping the Broom" (TriStar Pictures)
Oliver Litondo - "The First Grader" (National Geographic Entertainment)
Vin Diesel - "Fast Five" (Universal Pictures)
Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
Adepero Oduye - "Pariah" (Focus Features)
Emma Stone - "The Help" (DreamWorks Pictures)
Paula Patton - "Jumping the Broom" (TriStar Pictures)
Viola Davis - "The Help" (DreamWorks Pictures)
Zoë Saldana -...
The complete list of winners:
Motion Picture Categories
Outstanding Motion Picture
"Jumping the Broom" (TriStar Pictures)
"Pariah" (Focus Features)
"The First Grader" (National Geographic Entertainment)
"The Help" (DreamWorks Pictures)
"Tower Heist" (Universal Pictures)
Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
Eddie Murphy - "Tower Heist" (Universal Pictures)
Laurence Fishburne - "Contagion" (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Laz Alonso - "Jumping the Broom" (TriStar Pictures)
Oliver Litondo - "The First Grader" (National Geographic Entertainment)
Vin Diesel - "Fast Five" (Universal Pictures)
Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
Adepero Oduye - "Pariah" (Focus Features)
Emma Stone - "The Help" (DreamWorks Pictures)
Paula Patton - "Jumping the Broom" (TriStar Pictures)
Viola Davis - "The Help" (DreamWorks Pictures)
Zoë Saldana -...
- 2/18/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Getty Poet Yusef Komunyakaa
The 20 finalists for the 2011 National Book Awards were announced Wednesday. The National Book Foundation later added one more finalist to the Young People’s Literature category. The finalists are:
Fiction: Andrew Krivak (“The Sojourn”), Tea Obreht (“The Tiger’s Wife”), Julie Otsuka (“The Buddha in the Attic”), Edith Pearlman (“Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories”), Jesmyn Ward (“Salvage the Bones”).
Nonfiction: Deborah Baker (“The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism”), Mary Gabriel (“Love and Capital: Karl...
The 20 finalists for the 2011 National Book Awards were announced Wednesday. The National Book Foundation later added one more finalist to the Young People’s Literature category. The finalists are:
Fiction: Andrew Krivak (“The Sojourn”), Tea Obreht (“The Tiger’s Wife”), Julie Otsuka (“The Buddha in the Attic”), Edith Pearlman (“Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories”), Jesmyn Ward (“Salvage the Bones”).
Nonfiction: Deborah Baker (“The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism”), Mary Gabriel (“Love and Capital: Karl...
- 10/12/2011
- by Barbara Chai
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Despite the problems facing the U.S. these days, one group is surprisingly upbeat: African Americans. In this week's Newsweek, Ellis Cose finds a new generation that believes racism is in decline.
As the United States struggles through its worst economic crisis in generations, gloom has seized much of the heartland. The optimism that came so easily to many Americans as the new century dawned is significantly harder to summon these days. There is, however, a conspicuous exception: African Americans, long accustomed to frustration in their pursuit of opportunity and respect, are amazingly upbeat, consistently astounding pollsters with their hopefulness. Earlier this year, when a Washington Post-Kaiser-Harvard poll asked respondents whether they expected their children's standard of living to be better or worse than their own, 60 percent of blacks chose "better," compared with only 36 percent of whites.
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Numerous previous...
As the United States struggles through its worst economic crisis in generations, gloom has seized much of the heartland. The optimism that came so easily to many Americans as the new century dawned is significantly harder to summon these days. There is, however, a conspicuous exception: African Americans, long accustomed to frustration in their pursuit of opportunity and respect, are amazingly upbeat, consistently astounding pollsters with their hopefulness. Earlier this year, when a Washington Post-Kaiser-Harvard poll asked respondents whether they expected their children's standard of living to be better or worse than their own, 60 percent of blacks chose "better," compared with only 36 percent of whites.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Should We Hit Gaddafi Next?
Numerous previous...
- 5/23/2011
- by Ellis Cose
- The Daily Beast
With Manning Marable’s new Malcolm X bio, said to contain previously unreleased info, challenging facts presented in both Alex Haley’s autobio & Spike Lee’s film, might we see another Malcolm X movie?
The late Marable’s just-published book, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, is in book stores now. I preordered my copy last week & will be getting it in the mail today. I’m certainly looking forward to digging through its 600+ pages, with my thoughts surely to follow along the way on this site, and maybe even provide my own answers to the above question posed.
You can order a copy Here.
I know for a fact that Spike got a copy of it before it was even published, so I’m curious to hear what his take on it is. He did tweet the following yesterday: “I started reading Manning Marable’s -Malcolm X...
The late Marable’s just-published book, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, is in book stores now. I preordered my copy last week & will be getting it in the mail today. I’m certainly looking forward to digging through its 600+ pages, with my thoughts surely to follow along the way on this site, and maybe even provide my own answers to the above question posed.
You can order a copy Here.
I know for a fact that Spike got a copy of it before it was even published, so I’m curious to hear what his take on it is. He did tweet the following yesterday: “I started reading Manning Marable’s -Malcolm X...
- 4/5/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
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