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Zack Van Amburg & Jamie Erlicht Drive Apple TV+ To Top Of The Streaming Heap — Deadline Disruptors
When Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht left Sony Pictures Television in 2017 to steer Apple's film and TV fortunes, few doubted they would give the tech giant's upstart content company a beachhead on the small screen. During their 12 years at Sony, they hatched hits like Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul and Rescue…
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Tom Hanks & Gary Goetzman’s Playtone Makes Apple TV+ Exclusive Deal; WWII Epic ‘Masters Of The Air’ On Tarmac Along With ‘Greyhound’ Sequel
EXCLUSIVE: After collaborating on the 2020 film Greyhound — with a sequel in the works — and the just-wrapped WWII series Masters of the Air, Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman have made multi-year exclusive overall deal with Apple TV+.
The pact encompasses series, documentaries and unscripted projects for…
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JP Richards Named Apple TV+ Head Of Film Marketing Strategy As He Exits WB WW Marketing Co-Prexy Post
EXCLUSIVE: JP Richards has been appointed head of film marketing strategy at Apple TV+. He will report to video marketing chief Chris Van Amburg. Richards will start the job next month, when his exit from Warner Bros is official. Last November, he left his position as Co-President of Worldwide Marketing at Warner…
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Issa Rae & Gloria Calderón Kellett Among Six New TV Academy Executive Committee Appointees
Frank Scherma, chairman and CEO of the Television Academy, has tapped six prominent TV industry figures — two creators and four executives — as the chair's appointees to the Television Academy Executive Committee. The list includes Insecure co-creator/star Issa Rae; One Day At a Time co-creator Gloria Calderón Kellett…
Apple Makes Big Deal For Joe & Anthony Russo-Directed ‘Cherry;’ Tom Holland & Ciara Bravo Drama Becomes Oscar Season Entry
EXCLUSIVE: In a deal that lands in the high $40 millions, Apple Original Films has acquired worldwide rights to Cherry, the first film directed by Anthony and Joe Russo since their Avengers: Endgame became the highest global grossing film of all time. The film is a decidedly different kind of drama, an adaptation of…
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Apple Wins ‘Emancipation’; Will Smith’s Westbrook Relationship With Toppers Zack Van Amburg & Jamie Erlicht At Sony Helped Seal Festival Record Pre-Buy
EXCLUSIVE: The largest film festival acquisition deal in film history is now closed. Apple Studios has acquired world rights to Emancipation, the film package with Antoine Fuqua directing Will Smith in a Willam N. Collage-scripted action thriller about the harrowing escape of Peter, a runaway slave forced to outwit…
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Apple TV+ Toppers On Streamer’s “Validating” Golden Globe Nominations & “Phenomenal” Launch
Apple TV+ landed three major Golden Globe nominations this morning for one of its first original series, The Morning Show. It was nominated for drama series and twice in the actress in a drama series category for stars/executive producers Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon.
The noms, which followed Apple+’s first…
Apple’s Jamie Erlicht & Zack Van Amburg Make Moves To Shake Up SVOD Scripted Space — Deadline Disruptors
Apple, which helped revolutionize the digital distribution of music with iTunes, is a relatively late entrant into the digital video-on-demand space. But its foray had been a long time in the making. "There has always been a fascination at the company with movie and TV content," says Tim Bajarin, president of…
Apple Taps Sony TV’s Zack Van Amburg & Jamie Erlicht As Heads Of Programming
After years of will-they-or-won’t-they speculation, Apple is announcing its arrival in the original programming space in a big way with the hire of outgoing Sony Pictures Television presidents Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg to oversee all aspects of worldwide video programming for the tech giant. The duo will…
Zack Van Amburg & Jamie Erlicht Exit As Sony Pictures TV Presidents
Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht, the longtime Presidents of Sony Pictures Television, are leaving. Van Amburg had been at Sony for 20 years, Erlicht for 15.
A year ago, the duo was promoted with additional responsibilities following the exit of Sony Pictures TV chairman Steve Mosko but they were not signed to new…
TNT’s Kevin Reilly, Execs From Hulu & Sony TV Join Peabodys Advisory Board
The Peabody Awards has added to its advisory board, and some big-names TV execs made the grade. Joining the nearly two dozen existing board members are Kevin Reilly, president of TBS and TNT and Chief Creative Officer at Turner Entertainment; Zack Van Amburg, president of Sony Pictures Television; and Craig Erwich…
Sony TV’s Zack Van Amburg & Jamie Erlicht On New Structure, Corporate Synergy & What’s Next
It's a new era at Sony Pictures TV following the exit of longtime topper Steve Mosko. Under the new executive structure, five division heads — presidents of programming and production Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht, president of worldwide networks Andy Kaplan, president of distribution Keith Le Goy, and president…
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