EXCLUSIVE: After almost a decade and a half at NBCUniversal, Doug Liman, Dave Bartis and Gene Klein's Hypnotic is leaving the company for a multi-year, exclusive deal with indie studio Entertainment One. The pact covers scripted and unscripted television and select new media programming. eOne will serve as the studio…

EXCLUSIVE: Entertainment One has promoted veteran executive Mark Herwick to EVP, Unscripted Programming. In his new role, Herwick will oversee day-to-day on eOne's growing slate of unscripted television which includes the Growing Up Hip Hop franchise and the recently premiered Ladies' Night. Based in Los Angeles…

In a return to television, Avengers: Endgame‘s Evangeline Lilly is set to star in and executive produce Albedo, an eight-episode mystery drama series from Entertainment One, Rampage helmer Brad Peyton and Bell Media in Canada. Peyton is set to direct and executive produce with Jeff Fierson the straight-to-series…

Entertainment One (eOne) has paid $215M to acquire Audio Network, a British firm that handles music for use in film and TV. The Designated Survivor studio, which owns the rights to the Death Row Records catalogue, has bought 100% of the UK-based firm. The deal was announced by eOne's President and CEO Darren Throop…

Entertainment One (eOne) and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE) have inked a multi-year, multi-territory distribution agreement whereby Universal will serve as the home entertainment distributor of eOne's diverse offerings across both transactional physical and digital formats. The news was announced today…

EXCLUSIVE: Entertainment One has signed a multi-year first-look deal for scripted and unscripted TV programming with MGMT.Entertainment. Under the pact, eOne will serve as the studio on all projects, in addition to managing the worldwide rights. "I've known MGMT’s David Schiff for 30 plus years and I've always been…

Fresh off his Oscar win for Green Book, Mahershala Ali is diving into the sci-fi world in the upcoming Entertainment One film Sovereign. Details about the plot are being kept under wraps, but it will be directed by Marc Munden (Utopia) and produced by eOne along with 21 Laps Entertainment's Shawn Levy, Dan Levine and D…

Entertainment One has come on board to co-finance comedy Lexi with CBS Films. Sierra/Affinity is launching international sales at the 2019 European Film Market in Berlin. The film stars Adam DeVine, Alexandra Shipp, Ron Funches, Charlyne Yi, Justin Hartley, Wanda Sykes, Michael Peña and Rose Byrne, and has been…

Entertainment One has acquired rights to Laura Sims’ debut novel Looker to develop as a TV series with former The Newsroom star Emily Mortimer set to executive produce via her King Bee Productions banner, part of her first-look deal with the studio. She also intends to appear in the project. Looker, released this…

The Girlfriend Experience co-creator/director Lodge Kerrigan is set to direct and Scorpion creator/executive producer Nick Santora is attached as showrunner of YouTube Premium’s drama pilot Dark Cargo, from Entertainment One and Canada's Counterfeit Pictures and SEVEN24 Films. The project, written by Adam and Max…

Tara Long, who launched Entertainment One’s U.S. unscripted TV business in 2012, has been promoted to President, Global Unscripted, Television for the studio. The move comes after Long's continued success at eOne in the U.S. with key broadcast partners including E!, BET, WE tv, A&E, MTV, Lifetime, VH1, Discovery…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation with several companies pursuing, Entertainment One has acquired the TV rights to Jenny Lee’s upcoming YA novel Anna K, a modern-day, multicultural retelling of Leo Tolstoy’s classic Anna Karenina, to adapt as a TV series with Drew Comins’ Creative Engine Entertainment and Scooter B…