EXCLUSIVE: The LA Screenings return later this month, so right here’s one thing to get the ball rolling forward of the glamorous trade occasion. Sony Footage Tv has unveiled its Screenings slate, with particulars in full under.
On the similar time, the Culver Metropolis-based studio has shared unique first-look photographs for 2 of its buzz titles, The Girl, which is from The Crown producer Left Financial institution Footage, and Titanic Sinks Tonight, a real-time retelling of well-known British ship’s first – and final – voyage. Try the pics in full on the backside of this text.
As ever, Sony shall be internet hosting worldwide patrons from all over the world on its lot, this time on Sunday Might 18, for preview seems at upcoming sequence. This 12 months, there’s a brand new look staff on the prime, with Mike Wald and Jason Spivak taking heart stage following Keith Le Goy’s elevation to Sony Footage Tv Chairman.
“We are able to’t wait to welcome companions from all over the world to the lot, to reconnect, and to current this unbelievable slate,” mentioned Wald and Spivak, Co-Presidents, Distribution & Networks at Sony Footage Tv. They’ll be joined by the likes of Le Goy, Sony Footage Tv President Katherine Pope, Worldwide Manufacturing boss Wayne Garvie and several other unannounced particular friends.
This 12 months, Sony’s slate will comprise American Hostage, Outlander: Blood of My Blood, Lord of the Flies, Enjoying Gracie Darling, The Girl and Titanic Sinks Tonight.
As we reported in April, American Hostage (working title) is predicated on the podcast of the identical title and can star Jon Hamm (Mad Males, Your Mates & Neighbors) as Fred Heckman, a beloved real-life Indianapolis radio reporter who’s thrust into the center of a life-or-death disaster when hostage-taker Tony Kiritsis calls for to be interviewed on his in style radio information program. Shawn Ryan (The Evening Agent, S.W.A.T.) and Eileen Myers (Huge Love, Mad Canine) are the co-creators of the Sony Footage Tv drama, with Hamm among the many exec producers.
Outlander: Blood of My Blood has been gaining traction for a while, and within the U.S. is set to launch on August 8 on newly-solo Starz. The Outlander prequel spinoff follows romances between Julia Moriston (Hermione Corfield) and Henry Beauchamp (Jeremy Irvine), and Ellen MacKenzie (Harriet Slater) and Brian Fraser (Jamie Roy), centering on the parallel love tales set in two totally different time durations.
Lord of the Flies, from Sony’s Intercourse Training producer Eleven, is an adaptation of William Golding’s 1954 novel a few group of younger schoolchildren who discover themselves stranded on a tropical island with no adults, following a lethal airplane crash. They descend into violence because the group splits and hope turns to tragedy. Made for the BBC and Australia’s Stan, it has Adolescence scribe Jack Thorne writing and Hans Zimmer on the music.
From Australia is Paramount+ drama Enjoying Gracie Darling, which is from Sony-owned Curio Footage. Starring Morgana O’Reilly (The White Lotus), Harriet Walter (Succession) and Rudi Dharmalingam (The Lazarus Venture), it follows the story Joni, whose greatest good friend Gracie Darling disappeared throughout a séance once they had been youngsters. Years later, Joni, now a toddler psychologist, is compelled to return to her residence city when a woman disappears beneath eerily related circumstances.
The Girl, in the meantime, tells the story of the Duchess of York’s former aide, Jane Andrews, whose rags to riches story fell aside when she was convicted of homicide. Mia McKenna-Bruce (Methods to Have Intercourse) stars as Andrews and Natalie Dormer (Sport of Thrones) performs Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York. Deadline revealed information of the sequence, which is for ITV and BritBox Worldwide, in December 2024.
Left Financial institution is at the moment gearing as much as welcome BBC Chief Content material Officer Charlotte Moore as CEO, with the producer’s founder and long-serving chief, Andy Harries, shifting to an Government Chairman place. Earlier at present, we revealed the three execs wanting most definitely to exchange Moore on the BBC.
Lastly, Titanic Sinks Tonight, a BBC documentary sequence that “goals to supply a whole image of probably the most well-known 160 minutes in maritime historical past, telling the astonishing story of the sinking of the Titanic in actual time.” Sony’s Stellify Media is making it.
‘The Girl’
Sony Footage Tv/ITV/BritBox
‘Titanic Sinks Tonight’
Sony/BBC
‘Enjoying Gracie Darling’
Sony/Paramount+
‘Outlander: Blood of My Blood’
Sony/Starz