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Lourdes Diaz, who was President of Television at AGC, has been promoted to Chief Creative Officer across AGC Studios, taking on oversight of the company's feature film division. Former Univision and Comedy Central exec Diaz will oversee feature films at Stuart Ford's studio in addition to running its television…

Isla Fisher (Wolf Like Me) and Greg Kinnear (Shining Vale) will topline the family comedy The Present, from director Christian Ditter (How to Be Single), which has entered production in Los Angeles. In the film from Stuart Ford’s independent content studio AGC Studios, a brilliant boy discovers he can manipulate time…

Oscar-winner Ariana DeBose and Jennifer Jason Leigh have joined the cast of Chris Pine's directorial debut Poolman. They join the previously announced cast of Pine, Annette Bening and Danny DeVito. Stuart Ford's AGC Studios is fully financing the project, which it launched at EFM earlier this year, and will continue…

WandaVision writer Chuck Hayward is penning comedy Brothers With No Game based on the popular UK YouTube series for Stuart Ford’s AGC Television. Hayward, whose other credits include Ted Lasso and Dear White People, will write and showrun the series that is not yet attached to a network about four childhood friends…

Germany's Leonine Studios has acquired distribution rights to AGC Television's Australian crime drama Troppo. The eight-part series comes is based on the Crimson Lake novel series from writer Candice Fox and recently debuted on the ABC in Australia. In the U.S., it is set to go out on Amazon’s IMDb TV (soon to be…

AGC Television, the TV wing of Stuart Ford's AGC Studios, is optioning a trio of books written by American author Jayne Allen. The first two novels in the series – Black Girls Must Die Exhausted and Black Girls Must Be Magic – will be followed by an as-yet unnamed third book in the trilogy. A search for a writer is…

Stuart Ford's AGC Studios has named industry veteran Jill Jones as EVP of Marketing and Publicity. Jones has more than 20 years' experience in marketing campaigns, festival, market and launch strategies. She was most recently in-house at Mister Smith Entertainment, where she worked on more than 50 feature film…

BAFTA TV-winning actress Lydia West (It's A Sin) has been set to star alongside Patricia Clarkson in Gray, the espionage thriller series from AGC Studios. Clarkson stars as CIA spy Cornelia Gray, who comes in from the cold after twenty years in hiding, dodging the Government agents who suspected her of being a…

EXCLUSIVE: Crystal Bourbeau has exited Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios as President of Worldwide Sales and Distribution after joining the company last October. AGC told us: “Crystal did terrific work at AFM and EFM during her stint at AGC but both parties came to the conclusion that it wasn't an ideal long term fit for…

Stuart Ford's AGC Studios is expanding its sales and distribution team with the hiring of Diane Ferrandez as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Distribution. Ferrandez mostly recently held a senior position at London-based sales company Rocket Science, working on projects including Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of…

Mega-budget epic Desert Warrior, starring Anthony Mackie and Aiysha Hart, has been a big talking point here in Jeddah this week as it nears wrapping production in Saudi Arabia's Neom region. The $140M 7th Century-set action title marks not only the biggest production to shoot in the KSA since it lifted its ban on…

Stuart Ford's AGC Studios has hired Lorelle Lynch as Creative Executive in the company’s production team. Lynch joins from Range Media Partners. She was previously at John Wells Productions and Vox Media Studios. AGC has also promoted AGC's Vice President of Acquisitions, Zach Garrett, to Vice President, Productions…