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First Look Media has announced former PBS Distribution and AMC Networks’ executive Jen O'Connell Robertson as Senior VP of Marketing. Monica Bloom, from Tribeca Shortlist, was named VP, Marketing. O'Connell-Robertson will oversee marketing across film and TV production, led by Topic Studios, new streaming service…

EXCLUSIVE: Visual journalism outfit Field of Vision is teaming with Spotlight production co Topic Studios to offer $250,000 in emergency financial help for struggling documentary freelancers during the coronavirus lockdown. The two companies are divisions of First Look Media, the org set up by eBay founder and…

EXCLUSIVE: Topic, First Look Media's streaming service, has picked up North American rights to Australian drama Lambs of God starring The End of the F**king World's Jessica Barden, The Babadook's Essie Davis and The Handmaid's Tale's Ann Dowd. The digital service will launch the four-part series on May 7. It comes…

Topic, the soon-to-launch streaming service from First Look Media, has acquired 10 international titles from Fremantle, including The Miracle made by The Young Pope producer Wildside. Wildside, an Italian outfit owned by Fremantle, produced The Miracle (Il Miracolo) for Sky Italia and it aired in the UK on Sky…

Topic, the unit of First Look Media known for producing films like Leave No Trace and multi-platform projects from talent such as Wyatt Cenac, has picked Netflix alum Ryan Chanatry as general manager of Topic.com. Chanatry will run the visual storytelling platform known for politically and socially oriented web series…

"I hope James Mattis sees this film," says Michael Epstein, director of House Two, a feature doc about the Haditha massacre and the subsequent criminal investigation, which was the most expensive in Marine history. "I hope he realizes truly how fucked up it is and goes in and fixes it. Now as Secretary of Defense…

First Look Media, the company behind the entertainment studio and journalism outfits Topic and The Intercept and Field of Vision, has hired Drew Wilson as Chief Financial Officer. He most recently worked as CFO as AwesomenessTV, and before that at Robert Johnson’s RLJ Entertainment and Discovery Communications. At…

Stacey Politi, most recently VP Marketing at Sony TV’s digital streaming network Crackle, has been hired as SVP Marketing at First Look Media, the company that includes Topic Studios, which produces film, TV, and digital; its news organization the The Intercept; Field of Vision; Topic.com; The Nib; and its Press…

The critically acclaimed documentary Death in the Terminal is making its way to theaters. First Look Media's Topic, which acquired the U.S. rights to the title earlier this year, is partnering with BuzzFeed News to release the original docu from Tali Shemesh and Asaf Sudry. It will be available for free on both…

First Look Media’s entertainment studio arm Topic has unveiled its scripted TV series development slate, with projects from Alex Garcia Lopez (Utopia, The Walking Dead), Erin Foley-Chan (The President Show) and Channing Tatum’s Free Association, among others. This is the first round of projects in development at…

The critically acclaimed prison documentary The Work is set to open in New York theaters on October 20 and will expand to Los Angeles on October 27 with more cities following. The doc directed by Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Feature earlier this year at the South by…

First Look Media’s entertainment studio arm Topic has come aboard to co-produce and co-finance Sony Pictures’ untitled movie teaming Denzel Washington and writer-director Dan Gilroy. It joins a co-fi group that includes Sony, Cross Creek, Macro, Image Nation and Bron. Production has wrapped, and Sony is eyeing a late…