EXCLUSIVE: WGN America has acquired 10 episodes of drama series Almost Paradise, from Electric Entertainment. A premiere date and time will be announced later. Starring Christian Kane (The Librarians, Leverage, Angel), Almost Paradise centers on Alex Walker (Kane), a former US DEA agent who was forced into early…

Electric Entertainment will team again with P&A financier and media provider Global Pictures Media for Bad Samaritan, Electric's upcoming release directed by Electric Entertainment CEO Dean Devlin. Starring David Tennant (Doctor Who) and Robert Sheehan (Geostorm) is set for a nationwide release on May 4. Global…

UPDATED with release date info: Electric Entertainment has acquired North American rights to LBJ, director Rob Reiner's pic toplined by Woody Harrelson as the 36th President. The company has now set a November 10, 2017 bow for the pic, which premiered at Toronto and co-stars Jennifer Jason Leigh, Richard Jenkins, Bill…

EXCLUSIVE: Electric Entertainment’s Dean Devlin will produce and direct Steve Altiere’s sci-fi fantasy Countdown, a spec he and his company picked up about a boy fascinated by space travel who recruits his friends and an eccentric NASA engineer to hatch an unbelievable plan to try and save his dying father. Devlin…

EXCLUSIVE: Cutting Edge has acquired a significant stake in Dean Devlin’s Electric Entertainment's music library in what is said to be a seven-figure deal which closed while execs were attending the Los Cabos International Film Festival in Mexico. With the co-ownership agreement, comes a strategic alliance between…

The Orchard has acquired all North American rights to Junction 48, director Udi Aloni's film inspired by Palestinian rapper Tamer Nafar, who stars as Kareem, a rapper who leads an aimless life between odd jobs and hanging out with his buddies in a crime-ridden Arab ghetto of the mixed city of Lyd. Junction 48 won the…

Dean Devlin’s Electric Entertainment has acquired all media rights for the U.S. and Canada for The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, starring Jason Sudeikis, Jessica Biel and Maisie Williams. The film, which world preemed at Tribeca, is set for a theatrical release later this year. After tragedy strikes Henry (Jason…

EXCLUSIVE: The Anthony Hopkins-starring rural thriller Blackway has been acquired by Dean Devlin’s Electric Entertainment and will be the first theatrical release from the company’s new domestic distribution outfit. Its day-and-date bow in the U.S. is set for June 10 on screens in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago…

EXCLUSIVE: Dean Devlin’s Electric Entertainment has created a new domestic distribution division and appointed Zac Reeder to run it. Reeder joins from Netflix where he worked on the Global Features team covering content acquisitions. As Head of Domestic Distribution at Electric, he’ll be responsible for all aspects of…

The BAFTA Rocliffe Comedy Writing Competition has found its winners who will showcase their work for U.S. TV experts in New York in October. A UK-wide competition to find the nation's most promising comedy writers, it's headed to the New York Television Festival for the 5th time under the banner BAFTA Rocliffe New…

Dean Devlin’s Electric Entertainment has hired former Millennium Entertainment head of business affairs Craig Gates as VP Business & Legal Affairs, Worldwide Distribution. He had been a consultant the past few months and already has sealed deals for the film and TV outfit, recently helping acquire international rights…

EXCLUSIVE: Go With Me stars Anthony Hopkins, Julia Stiles, Ray Liotta — and has now added Hal Holbrook. Dean Devlin's Electric Entertainment is co-financing the thriller with Enderby Entertainment, and Electric is selling world rights here with UTA on domestic. Daniel Alfredson (the Millennium trilogy) directs the…