EXCLUSIVE: MGM's VP Of International Sales Antonio Salas is joining Donald Tang's Global Road Entertainment in the same role. Salas begins at Global Road next week and will report to President Of International Sales Charlotte Van Weede, with whom he previously worked at eOne Films International. Salas will manage all…

Global Road Entertainment has joined the Miss America Organization and Tall Pony Productions as a producer of The 2019 Miss America Competition, set to air in September on ABC. Global Road’s head of Unscripted & Alternative Television Phil Gurin will executive produce the show “assisting with the creative development…

EXCLUSIVE: Global Road Entertainment has closed a deal to acquire Rawhide Down, a thriller spec script from scribe Alex Cramer that details in real time the day of President Ronald Reagan’s assassination attempt outside the Washington Hilton on March 30, 1981. We’re hearing that Global Road took the spec off the table…

EXCLUSIVE: Global Road is stepping up and re-cutting its family film Show Dogs after mommy bloggers and groups including the National Center on Sexual Exploitation took issue with a subplot involving the lead undercover police dog Max (voiced by Ludacris), who while being inspected at a dog show becomes comfortable…

Global Road Entertainment is to ramp up its move into the non-scripted television world with the development of Fridge Wars with Canada's CBC. The company is co-developing the studio-based entertainment format with the Canadian public broadcaster. The show follows Canadian families across the country, revealing what's…

Muscle Shoals, a drama based on the life of Rick Hall, producer of the legendary Muscle Shoals sound, has sold to ABC for development under a straight-to-series model, Deadline has learned. The project hails from Global Road Entertainment, Johnny Depp and Christie Dembrowski's Infinitum Nihil, Richard Branson's Virgin…

Jun Oh has joined Global Road Entertainment as president of business and legal affairs, coming over from Warner Bros. Pictures. He will be responsible for all business and legal affairs for film and TV development, productions, distribution and acquisitions globally and report to Rob Friedman, CEO and Chairman. Oh was…

Global Road has unveiled the first trailer for Hotel Artemis, the crime thriller toplined by Jodie Foster and This Is Us‘ Sterling K. Brown. The pic, written and directed by Drew Pearce, centers on Foster’s The Nurse, who runs a secret, members-only, near-future Los Angeles hospital for criminals. It also featured a…

Today in Hong Kong, Global Road Entertainment parent Tang Media Partners unveiled a series of steps it’s taking as it looks to capitalize on China’s rapid growth, and as it promoted a so-called “dual-core” strategy. Among notable moves, and along with its partners and backers China Everbright and Tencent, TMP has…

In its first U.S.-China co-production with parent company Tang Media Partners, Global Road Entertainment has greenlit The Last Masters. A martial arts action thriller, it will be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and written by Alex Tse. The film will shoot in China among other worldwide locations, and be overseen by…

Beta Film and Red Bull Media House are launching high-end scripted project The Net. Inspired by true events, the ambitious series is planned as five standalone seasons of eight episodes each. It uses the world of soccer as a backdrop for the characters who experience the beautiful game not only as a dream factory, but…

Liz Biber, the head of publicity at Global Road Entertainment and before that at Open Road Films, is exiting the company. Her departure comes after the December exit of Open Road CEO Tom Ortenberg, who parted ways amicably in December following Tang Media Partners’ acquisition of Open Road. It was later combined with…