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EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Factory on Wednesday announced their promotion of longtime senior executive Michael Ribas to Senior Vice President of Marketing and Product Management.  Most recently serving as Vice President of Marketing, Ribas has been with Shout! Factory since 2003, prior to that holding…

EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Factory has elevated longtime senior executive Jordan Fields to Senior Vice President of Acquisitions & Originals. In his new role at the multi-platform media company, where he most recently served as Vice President of Acquisitions, Fields will report to Shout! CEO Garson…

EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Factory has promoted Julie Dansker to SVP of Streaming and Content Strategy. She had been Head of New Content Sales at the multi-platform film and TV distribution, development and production company. In her new role, Dansker will spearhead Shout’s streaming, licensing and content…

EXCLUSIVE: The Jim Henson Company has inked a worldwide distribution deal with Shout! Factory, which will bring thirteen of Henson’s beloved series and specials to streaming, broadcast and home entertainment platforms across all territories, with Henson’s award-winning Farscape making its global AVOD premiere. In…

EXCLUSIVE: MTV's The Real World is often cited as pioneering reality TV in America, but credit more properly goes to a much earlier television series: Candid Camera. The hidden camera show created by Allen Funt premiered on TV in 1948, with various iterations broadcast until 2014. The story of how Funt made one of…

EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Factory has snapped up North American distribution rights to Candid Camera, the hidden-camera show known for its decades-long run as a television pioneer. The multi-year agreement encompasses thousands of episodes from 1960 to 2013, with the first 100 hand-picked classics heading to streaming service…

EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Factory has promoted longtime senior executive Melissa Boag to Executive Vice President of Kids & Family Entertainment In her new role, Boag will continue to work closely with co-founder and CEO Garson Foos in overall leadership across the company and big picture strategy in support of Shout’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Distribution rights to ALF, the puppet-fronted sitcom that ran on NBC from 1986 to 1990 and spawned an animated series and a cult following, have been acquired by Shout! Factory. The company, in partnership with Alien Productions, plan to bring Alf titles to digital entertainment platforms in the U.S…

In Old Henry, Tim Blake Nelson is the titular frontiersman, living a hermetic life, with only his son for company. His most central role since the Coen brothers' The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Blake portrays a man deeply bound by repression—that is, until a chance run-in with an injured stranger forces the emergence of…

Shout! Factory and Laika have signed a multiyear distribution deal that will see Shout! bring the first four films — all Oscar nominees — made by the animation studio to the home entertainment sphere. Under terms of the pact, Shout! receives U.S. home entertainment distribution rights in all packaged media to Kubo and…

EXCLUSIVE:  Robert Schwartzman’s filmmaker-centric distribution company Utopia has launched Utopia Originals which will focus on the development, packaging, and sale of original narrative and documentary feature film as well as television content. For its first project, Utopia Originals has teamed with Norman Reedus…

The onscreen exploits of stuntwomen, and their off-screen battles for fair and equal treatment, is explored in Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story, a new documentary from director April Wright for Shout! Studios that debuts September 22 on digital platforms. Narrated by Fast & Furious franchise star Michelle…