Exclusive: Asylum Entertainment Group, the Endeavor-backed production group run by Steve Michaels, has invested in British producer Moon&Back Media, founded by veteran UK execs Dawn Airey, Nigel Hall and Russ Lindsay.
It marks the company’s first investment in an international production company and comes after Endeavor invested in Asylum earlier this year, as revealed by Deadline.
Airey has worked for British broadcasters including ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky. She is best known as the inaugural director of programmes for Channel 5, where she coined the term ‘films, football and f*cking’ to describe its content strategy, before becoming CEO of the network, which is now owned by Paramount. She subsequently ran channels at Sky before becoming Director of Global Content at ITV. She has also held senior roles at Rtl, Yahoo and Getty Images.
Hall is best known as Global Head of TV for Simon Cowell’s Syco Entertainment,...
It marks the company’s first investment in an international production company and comes after Endeavor invested in Asylum earlier this year, as revealed by Deadline.
Airey has worked for British broadcasters including ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky. She is best known as the inaugural director of programmes for Channel 5, where she coined the term ‘films, football and f*cking’ to describe its content strategy, before becoming CEO of the network, which is now owned by Paramount. She subsequently ran channels at Sky before becoming Director of Global Content at ITV. She has also held senior roles at Rtl, Yahoo and Getty Images.
Hall is best known as Global Head of TV for Simon Cowell’s Syco Entertainment,...
- 9/27/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Three decades ago, the infamous trial of Lyle and Erik Menendez riled the nation as people watched the brothers plead their case against the murder of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez. In 1996, the Menendez brothers were sentenced to life in prison. Throughout their trial, the defense argued Lyle and Erik murdered their parents out of fear after years of sexual molestation by their music executive father Jose. Now, decades later, another allegation has been brought forth, this time by Roy Rosselló, a former member of the Puerto Rican boy band sensation Menudo, who says that he was sexually assaulted as a teenager by Jose Menendez, the New York Times reported.
The “Today” show aired these allegations on Tuesday during an exclusive first look at the upcoming three-part Peacock docuseries, “Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed.”
A new docuseries coming to @Peacock puts the infamous case of the Menendez brothers back...
The “Today” show aired these allegations on Tuesday during an exclusive first look at the upcoming three-part Peacock docuseries, “Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed.”
A new docuseries coming to @Peacock puts the infamous case of the Menendez brothers back...
- 4/18/2023
- by Sophia Scorziello
- Variety Film + TV
Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel ruled out any major stock deal right how and indicated reluctance to increase debt, both at a time when the UFC’s main rival, WWE, is up for sale.
“Here’s what I would say to you, I don’t talk about M&a,” he told a Morgan Stanley investor conference when asked about a potential acquisition of Word Wrestling Entertainment. Owner Vince McMahon is currently overseeing a strategic restructuring of WWE including a potential sale.
“We have taken the company from eight times levered to below four,” he said of Endeavor. “I am sleeping, because of that, four hours to eight hours. I’d sleep a lot more if I got it lower… We are going to take it a lot lower this year.” Deleveraging “is very high on the list” of priorities.
Leverage is a ratio of debt to assets.
Emanuel also said definitively that,...
“Here’s what I would say to you, I don’t talk about M&a,” he told a Morgan Stanley investor conference when asked about a potential acquisition of Word Wrestling Entertainment. Owner Vince McMahon is currently overseeing a strategic restructuring of WWE including a potential sale.
“We have taken the company from eight times levered to below four,” he said of Endeavor. “I am sleeping, because of that, four hours to eight hours. I’d sleep a lot more if I got it lower… We are going to take it a lot lower this year.” Deleveraging “is very high on the list” of priorities.
Leverage is a ratio of debt to assets.
Emanuel also said definitively that,...
- 3/9/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Endeavor has made an investment in Asylum Entertainment Group, which is home to a number of production banners focused on unscripted TV series.
Asylum’s collection of companies includes the Content Group, Texas Crew Productions, Big City TV, Breaklight Pictures, and Audity. Those banners will become part of Endeavor’s nonscripted content division, led by Rebecca Sanhueza, executive VP of content strategy and development and head of nonscripted content at Endeavor. Asylum CEO Steve Michaels and Jodi Flynn, president of Asylum, will report to Sanhueza.
Mark Shapiro, president of Endeavor, called the deal complimentary to its existing assets. Endeavor will provide Asylum with financing and other resources to grow, particularly with international acquisitions.
“Asylum is the ideal complement to our existing portfolio, and Steve will have our full support in building out an industry-leading nonscripted business,” Shapiro said. “Rebecca is a key architect of Endeavor’s content strategy,” Shapiro said.
Asylum’s collection of companies includes the Content Group, Texas Crew Productions, Big City TV, Breaklight Pictures, and Audity. Those banners will become part of Endeavor’s nonscripted content division, led by Rebecca Sanhueza, executive VP of content strategy and development and head of nonscripted content at Endeavor. Asylum CEO Steve Michaels and Jodi Flynn, president of Asylum, will report to Sanhueza.
Mark Shapiro, president of Endeavor, called the deal complimentary to its existing assets. Endeavor will provide Asylum with financing and other resources to grow, particularly with international acquisitions.
“Asylum is the ideal complement to our existing portfolio, and Steve will have our full support in building out an industry-leading nonscripted business,” Shapiro said. “Rebecca is a key architect of Endeavor’s content strategy,” Shapiro said.
- 3/7/2023
- by William Earl
- Variety Film + TV
Endeavor Group Holdings, the owner of WME, UFC and Img, has made a strategic investment in nonscripted production company Asylum Entertainment Group.
With the investment, Asylum, which has a portfolio including The Content Group, Texas Crew Productions, Big City TV, Breaklight Pictures and Audity, will become part of Endeavor’s nonscripted content division. Rebecca Sanhueza, Endeavor’s EVP of content strategy and development, will lead the nonscripted content business at Endeavor. Asylum’s CEO Steve Michaels and President Jodi Flynn will report to Sanhueza. The move signals a bigger push by Endeavor into the non-fiction space.
“Rebecca is a key architect of Endeavor’s content strategy,” said Endeavor President Mark Shapiro. “She played a crucial role in developing both Endeavor Content and Img’s original content business, and brings the vision and strategy necessary to realize our global ambitions in nonscripted.”
Asylum Entertainment Group has been behind a number of reality,...
With the investment, Asylum, which has a portfolio including The Content Group, Texas Crew Productions, Big City TV, Breaklight Pictures and Audity, will become part of Endeavor’s nonscripted content division. Rebecca Sanhueza, Endeavor’s EVP of content strategy and development, will lead the nonscripted content business at Endeavor. Asylum’s CEO Steve Michaels and President Jodi Flynn will report to Sanhueza. The move signals a bigger push by Endeavor into the non-fiction space.
“Rebecca is a key architect of Endeavor’s content strategy,” said Endeavor President Mark Shapiro. “She played a crucial role in developing both Endeavor Content and Img’s original content business, and brings the vision and strategy necessary to realize our global ambitions in nonscripted.”
Asylum Entertainment Group has been behind a number of reality,...
- 3/7/2023
- by Caitlin Huston
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Endeavor is putting its money into non-scripted television. The company, which owns WME, Img and UFC, has made a strategic investment in Asylum Entertainment Group, the unscripted production company led by Steve Michaels, with plans to “supercharge” its footprint with a major M&a drive.
Deadline understands that through its investment, Endeavor planning to invest millions into the company in order to give it the financing and resources to buy up a number of non-scripted production companies and build it into a major non-fiction group.
We’ve heard that Michaels has already been scouting out potential acquisitions and is in talks for a nine-figure deal.
It becomes the latest major Hollywood player plotting to roll up non-scripted producers in order to give it size and scale; Sony has been on a drive since it acquired Industrial Media, the company behind American Idol and 90 Day Fiancé, in a $350M deal last...
Deadline understands that through its investment, Endeavor planning to invest millions into the company in order to give it the financing and resources to buy up a number of non-scripted production companies and build it into a major non-fiction group.
We’ve heard that Michaels has already been scouting out potential acquisitions and is in talks for a nine-figure deal.
It becomes the latest major Hollywood player plotting to roll up non-scripted producers in order to give it size and scale; Sony has been on a drive since it acquired Industrial Media, the company behind American Idol and 90 Day Fiancé, in a $350M deal last...
- 3/7/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The New York Post is looking to get into the TV game with a first-look unscripted deal with producer Asylum Entertainment Group.
The Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid is looking to adapt its stories into documentary features, limited series and docuseries.
The move will see Asylum’s production labels Texas Crew Productions, Audity, and The Content Group (Tcg), along with Big City TV and Breaklight Pictures, look for stories to adapt for the small screen.
It marks the latest newspaper group to eye up television projects; the New York Times has a deal for New York Times Presents with FX and Hulu, while The Washington Post recently struck a similar deal with Imagine Entertainment.
It comes after Breaklight Pictures partnered with the paper to turn Post journalist Hannah Frishberg’s in-depth reporting on international megachurch Hillsong into Discovery+’s limited series Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed.
The deal with Asylum will...
The Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid is looking to adapt its stories into documentary features, limited series and docuseries.
The move will see Asylum’s production labels Texas Crew Productions, Audity, and The Content Group (Tcg), along with Big City TV and Breaklight Pictures, look for stories to adapt for the small screen.
It marks the latest newspaper group to eye up television projects; the New York Times has a deal for New York Times Presents with FX and Hulu, while The Washington Post recently struck a similar deal with Imagine Entertainment.
It comes after Breaklight Pictures partnered with the paper to turn Post journalist Hannah Frishberg’s in-depth reporting on international megachurch Hillsong into Discovery+’s limited series Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed.
The deal with Asylum will...
- 2/23/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
According to the horror genre, summer camps are teeming with killers and other unusual dangers. These seasonal getaways designed for adventure and fun quickly turn into fights for survival. And it’s not just in the movies where a young camper’s sleeping bag doubles as their body bag; books also present camps as hotbeds of death, murder and mystery. Carol Ellis’ 1993 young-adult novel Camp Fear joins the popular club of sleepaway terror when the characters find themselves menaced one summer. And as the title of this Point Horror entry suggests, the culprit is preying on people’s greatest fears.
Lousy food, surprise pests and unpleasant accommodations are the universal challenges of most fictional summer camps, but Silverlake has a problem most others don’t — a person, hellbent on revenge, is terrorizing the staff. Before the place can reopen for business, teens are hired to clear the cobwebs, sweep the...
Lousy food, surprise pests and unpleasant accommodations are the universal challenges of most fictional summer camps, but Silverlake has a problem most others don’t — a person, hellbent on revenge, is terrorizing the staff. Before the place can reopen for business, teens are hired to clear the cobwebs, sweep the...
- 8/11/2022
- by Paul Lê
- bloody-disgusting.com
Legendary’s Asylum Entertainment (The Kennedys) and Craig Piligian’s Pilgrim Studios (Ghost Hunters) are teaming to produce an event sports documentary series that explores sports on a global scale. Tentatively titled Planet Sport, and reminiscent of BBC series Planet Earth, the series will examine how sports shape and reflect cultures, societies, identities and communities throughout the world. Asylum’s Steven Michaels and Jonathan Koch, Piligian and David Michaels will…...
- 5/5/2015
- Deadline TV
Lifetime has found its Marilyn in Pan Am and The Aviator actress Kelli Garner. EW has confirmed that Garner will star as Marilyn Monroe in the network's upcoming four-hour miniseries about the Hollywood icon. Based on The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe by J. Randy Taraborrelli, Marilyn also stars Susan Sarandon as Monroe's mentally ill mother with whom she has a rather complicated relationship. According to Lifetime, the miniseries will reveal "what the iconic superstar succeeded in hiding from an all-too-invasive world." Here's the official synopsis from the network: "Marilyn is both the personification of sex, whose first marriage ironically collapses because of her frigidity,...
- 10/27/2014
- by Emily Blake
- EW - Inside TV
Lifetime's June Carter Cash biopic is adding some star power to the iconic singer's family. Frances Conroy (American Horror Story, Six Feet Under) has been tapped to play June's mother, Maybelle Carter, with X's John Doe on board to play June's uncle, A.P. Carter, the network said Monday. The project is based on Carter Cash's son John Carter Cash's memoir Anchored in Love: An Intimate Portrait of June Carter Cash. Richard Friedenberg (Lifetime's Of Two Minds) will adapt, with Southland's Allison Anders on board to direct. John Carter Cash, Steven Michaels and Jonathan Koch will executive produce. Story: Lifetime
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- 6/4/2012
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Reese Witherspoon, move over. Lifetime has tapped Jewel to star in The June Carter Cash Story, a biopic about the late country singer, the network said Thursday. The project is based on Carter Cash's son John Carter Cash's memoir Anchored in Love: An Intimate Portrait of June Carter Cash. Richard Friedenberg (Lifetime's Of Two Minds) will adapt, with Southland's Allison Anders on board to direct. John Carter Cash, Steven Michaels and Jonathan Koch will executive produce. American Horror Story's Matt Ross will play Johnny Cash in the story that tracks June's life from her childhood in Virginia through her rise
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- 5/3/2012
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Lifetime has greenlighted The June Carter Cash Story, an original movie starring singer Jewel as the country icon. Matt Ross (American Horror Story) is set to play music legend Johnny Cash, Carter Cash’s husband. The film is based on the memoir Anchored In Love: An Intimate Portrait Of June Carter Cash by Carter Cash’s son John Carter Cash. Allison Anders (Southland) will direct from a screenplay by Richard Friedenberg (Lifetime’s Of Two Minds). Produced by Asylum Entertainment, The June Carter Cash Story will begin filming this summer in Atlanta for a premiere later this year. Steven Michaels, Jonathan Koch and John Carter Cash are executive producing. The June Carter Cash Story follows June from early childhood growing up in the rural mountains of Virginia to her turbulent yet enduring relationship with Johnny Cash. The film chronicles June’s rise to fame with her singing family before...
- 5/3/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
French crime drama Braquo is to be remade for Us television. The series, created by Olivier Marchal, follows a squad of maverick cops in Paris and airs on cable channel Canal+. Asylum Entertainment, the company behind the recent Kennedys mini-series, will produce, with co-presidents Steven Michaels and Jonathan Koch serving as executive producers. "We've had some initial conversations about [a Us adaptation]," Koch told The Hollywood Reporter. "But I think when we have an opportunity to understand where it's going to land here in the Us, we'll have a better chance to decide how we need to adapt." Koch added that the potential remake will be "as much like the original as possible". "It's important that we keep all the elements," (more)...
- 1/11/2012
- by By Morgan Jeffery
- Digital Spy
The Kennedys producer Asylum Entertainment has cemented its next project. The Los Angeles-based entertainment company has snagged North American remake rights to the French television show Braquo for a potential U.S. series in a deal negotiated by U.K.'s Zodiak Rights. Steven Michaels, Asylum's president and CEO, and Jonathan Koch, president and Cco, will serve as executive producers. Created by Olivier Marchal and executive produced by Claude Chelli and Herve Chabalier at Capa Drama, Braquo is a dark police series that follows a Paris cop squad who live on the edge of the law, often using violence
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- 1/10/2012
- by Philiana Ng
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
hollywoodnews.com: In addition to its recently announced unscripted series Seriously Funny Kids , hosted by supermodel and supermom Heidi Klum (Project Runway), Lifetime Television will launch three all-new reality programs next month, including One Born Every Minute , Quad Squad (working title) and Glamour Belles .
The half-hour series Seriously Funny Kids, which follows Klum as she interacts with children and brings out the hilarious and often insightful things they say, will debut on Tuesday, February 1, at 9pm Et/Pt with back-to-back episodes . Lifetime has ordered 20 episodes of the program. Seriously Funny Kids is produced by Lmno Productions, with Klum, Eric Schotz (Kids Say the Darndest Things, I Get That A Lot), James Rowley (America’s Most Talented Kids), Desiree Gruber (Project Runway) and Jane Cutler (Project Runway) of Full Picture and JoAnn Alfano, Gena McCarthy and David Hillman of Lifetime Television serving as executive producers.
Following Seriously Funny Kids will be...
The half-hour series Seriously Funny Kids, which follows Klum as she interacts with children and brings out the hilarious and often insightful things they say, will debut on Tuesday, February 1, at 9pm Et/Pt with back-to-back episodes . Lifetime has ordered 20 episodes of the program. Seriously Funny Kids is produced by Lmno Productions, with Klum, Eric Schotz (Kids Say the Darndest Things, I Get That A Lot), James Rowley (America’s Most Talented Kids), Desiree Gruber (Project Runway) and Jane Cutler (Project Runway) of Full Picture and JoAnn Alfano, Gena McCarthy and David Hillman of Lifetime Television serving as executive producers.
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- 1/8/2011
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
Joel Surnow, co-creator of the Fox hit 24, is prepping a 10-hour miniseries on the Kennedy family that promises to "unveil secrets" about the legendary clan. The Kennedys will take an inside look behind the secret doors of the White House, and the soiled and crooked steps it took to get there. It also tells the historical stories that are associated with the Kennedy era -- the Bay of Pigs, the Missile Crisis, the civil rights struggle, the mob connection -- each one told in the context of personal, Kennedy-family dramas. The project from Muse Entertainment will be pitched internationally this weekend at the Miptv confab in Cannes. A major U.S. cable network is in talks to acquire the project for domestic release. Surnow is attached to executive produce the project, which has a planned budget of $30 million, with "24" partner Stephen Kronish, Michael Prupas of Muse Entertainment and Jonathan Koch...
- 3/26/2009
- by James Cook
- TheMovingPicture.net
Joel Surnow, the conservative co-creator of "24," is shopping a 10-hour miniseries on the Kennedy family.
The Canadian-based project from Muse Entertainment will be pitched internationally this weekend at the Miptv confab in Cannes. The drama, titled "The Kennedys," promises to "unveil secrets" about the clan.
" 'The Kennedys' takes an inside look behind the secret doors of the White House, (and) the soiled and crooked steps it took to get there," the release reads. "It also tells the historical stories that are associated with the Kennedy era -- the Bay of Pigs, the Missile Crisis, the civil rights struggle, the mob connection -- each one told in the context of personal, Kennedy-family dramas."
Surnow is attached to executive produce the project, which has a planned budget of $30 million, with "24" partner Stephen Kronish, Michael Prupas of Muse Entertainment and Jonathan Koch and Steven Michaels of Asylum Entertainment. A major U.S. cable...
The Canadian-based project from Muse Entertainment will be pitched internationally this weekend at the Miptv confab in Cannes. The drama, titled "The Kennedys," promises to "unveil secrets" about the clan.
" 'The Kennedys' takes an inside look behind the secret doors of the White House, (and) the soiled and crooked steps it took to get there," the release reads. "It also tells the historical stories that are associated with the Kennedy era -- the Bay of Pigs, the Missile Crisis, the civil rights struggle, the mob connection -- each one told in the context of personal, Kennedy-family dramas."
Surnow is attached to executive produce the project, which has a planned budget of $30 million, with "24" partner Stephen Kronish, Michael Prupas of Muse Entertainment and Jonathan Koch and Steven Michaels of Asylum Entertainment. A major U.S. cable...
- 3/25/2009
- by By James Hibberd
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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