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Vice Media Group has all-but ruled out buying more production companies to bolster Vice Studios, as it focuses on achieving “organic” double-digit revenue growth at the content division in 2020. In a wide-ranging breakfast discussion with journalists from the UK’s Broadcasting Press Guild on Thursday, Vice’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winner Nicolas Cage and Hereditary‘s Alex Wolff have boarded Michael Sarnoski’s Pig. The feature project, which began production today, follows a truffle hunter, played by Cage, who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness. When his beloved foraging pig is kidnapped, he must journey into Portland – and…

Hell on Wheels star Colm Meaney, Press' Paapa Essiedu and Harry Potter's David Bradley are the latest names to be added to Sky and Cinemax drama Gangs of London. The trio will join Peaky Blinders star Joe Cole and Humans' Sope Dirisu in the crime thriller, which was created by Gareth Evans. Rounding out the cast are…

Netflix has released a trailer for its long-gestating documentary series The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann about the missing British child, the day before its release. The SVOD is to launch the multi-part series on 15 March. It tells the story of the disappearance of 3-year-old McCann, who vanished from the…

EXCLUSIVE: Pulse Films and Infernal Affairs director Andrew Lau have optioned English-language screen rights to Chinese comic book series Teddy Boy, the source material for Lau’s hit 90’s crime movie franchise Young And Dangerous. Thomas Benski, Dimitra Tsingou and Brian Levy will be producing for Pulse. Lau and his…

EXCLUSIVE: Emma Cooper, Global President of Non-Fiction at Pulse Films, has left the XY Chelsea and Shut Up And Play The Hits producer as it restructures its TV arm. I hear that she recently departed the Vice-owned company, having joined in 2015. Cooper is responsible for a raft of UK and U.S. series including 10-part…

EXCLUSIVE: Shut Up and Play The Hits producer Pulse Films has teamed with Paramount Television to option the rights to Dan Hancox's grime book Inner City Pressure. The two companies are to adapt the book, which tells the story of the British music genre that spawned the likes of Dizzee Rascal, Stormzy and Skepta, for…

EXCLUSIVE: Peter Ackroyd's The History of England is headed to the screen after Pulse Films optioned the fiction and non-fiction rights to the epic six-part book series. The author has published five of the six planned books, which cover topics from Stonehenge to Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, William of Orange's accession…

The Nun director Corin Hardy is to helm Cinemax and Sky Atlantic's gangland thriller Gangs of London. Fresh from the success of the James Wan-produced horror will direct three episodes of the Pulse Films-produced drama that was first revealed by Deadline in November 2017. The drama, which will launch in 2019, is set…

Shoot has wrapped on Simon Pegg and Juno Temple starrer Lost Transmissions. Writer-director Katharine O'Brien's feature also stars Alexandra Daddario, Tao Okamoto, Rosanna Arquette, and Bria Vinaite. Temple portrays Hannah, an aspiring singer/songwriter, whose mentor, a respected music producer Theo Ross, (Pegg) is…

EXCLUSIVE: Skate Kitchen and American Honey production outfit Pulse Films is bolstering its scripted film and TV division with the hire of Protagonist Pictures COO & President Of Production Dimitra Tsingou. Tsingou, who joins as President of the scripted division from August 15, will concentrate on business expansion…

Welsh drama Hidden is heading to the U.S. after Acorn TV struck a deal with All3Media International to pick up the eight-part series. The drama, which is produced by Severn Screen for S4C and BBC Wales, stars Hinterland and Requiem's Sian Reese-William as DCI Cadi John, as she is drawn back to her childhood home by…