EXCLUSIVE: Lotus Entertainment has inked a deal with former Georgeville Television CEO Marc Rosen to produce and oversee Lotus’ film and TV production activities. He is already working on several projects in his new role. Before founding Georgeville, Rosen was co-founder of RosenObst which had deals at Paramount…

As scripted series began their proliferation on cable and digital several years ago, so did the number of new independent production companies dedicated to producing and financing scripted series (largely drama) for the growing demand in the U.S. marketplace. A number of feature and international companies launched…

Georgeville Television, the independent TV studio co-founded by Motion Picture Capital, the financing arm of Reliance Entertainment, and producer Marc Rosen, announced its arrival in May 2012 with the NBC series Crossbones. It was the first project for the new company, which was to co-produce the direct-to-series…

The Wachowskis' new sci-fi drama project Sense8 has landed at Netflix with a 10-episode order for a debut on Netflix Instant in late 2014. The series is produced by Georgeville TV, Reliance Entertainment/Motion Picture Capital's TV studio, in association with J. Michael Straczynski‘s Studio JMS. This marks the first…

EXCLUSIVE: El Rey, the upcoming Comcast cable network from filmmaker Robert Rodriguez and John Fogelman and Cristina Patwa’s FactoryMade, is looking to make a splash with original scripted series. I have learned that Tres Pistoleros Studios, Rodriguez and FactoryMade’s production company, has signed a mega three-year…

EXCLUSIVE: Feature director Brett Ratner and Law & Order veteran Barry Schindel have teamed for Tomorrow, a drama project at ABC financed by Reliance’s Georgeville Television, the independent TV studio formed last spring by Motion Picture Capital’s Leon Clarance and Deepak Nayar and producer Marc Rosen. Like all…

Independent TV studio, Georgeville Television has teamed up with The X-Files creator Chris Carter to finance a new drama series. Entitled The After, the series will debut at next week’s MIPCOM TV market where it will be shopped by newly formed Sierra/Engine Television. Written by Carter, The After is a thriller…

EXCLUSIVE: Georgeville Television, an independent TV studio co-founded recently by Leon Clarance of Motion Picture Capital, the financing arm of Reliance Entertainment, and producer Marc Rosen, has teamed with feature director Martin Campbell (Casino Royal) to revive the cult 1978 adventure/sci-fi series Blake’s 7…