Exclusive: Storied Media Group continues to expand its executive ranks with four new key hires across its Content & Client Partnerships, StoryScout Editorial and Business Affairs divisions.
Sara Barkan and Justine Taylor have joined the company’s Content & Client Partnerships division, Cherie Rodgers will point the company’s Business Affairs, and Jennifer Johnson has joined as Senior Editor, StoryScout. The new hires and recent promotions of Kevin Fernandes, Shayna Lyga, Jonny Harris and Ben Rosen come amid the explosive growth of the company’s IP software service StoryScout.
Prior to joining Storied Media Group, Barkan was a literary agent representing IP, writers, directors and production companies for television and film at A3 Artists Agency. Previously, Barkan had also been a producer of development and original programming at TruTV. She began her career at both CAA and UTA, followed by her time working for Steve Golin as a Creative Executive at Propaganda Films.
Sara Barkan and Justine Taylor have joined the company’s Content & Client Partnerships division, Cherie Rodgers will point the company’s Business Affairs, and Jennifer Johnson has joined as Senior Editor, StoryScout. The new hires and recent promotions of Kevin Fernandes, Shayna Lyga, Jonny Harris and Ben Rosen come amid the explosive growth of the company’s IP software service StoryScout.
Prior to joining Storied Media Group, Barkan was a literary agent representing IP, writers, directors and production companies for television and film at A3 Artists Agency. Previously, Barkan had also been a producer of development and original programming at TruTV. She began her career at both CAA and UTA, followed by her time working for Steve Golin as a Creative Executive at Propaganda Films.
- 3/16/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Storied Media Group has promoted four executives across its Content and Client Partnership and Operations divisions. Kevin Fernandes, in charge of day-to-day operations of the company, has been promoted to Senior Vice President, Operations, along with Shayna Lyga to Vice President, Content and Client Partnerships; Jonny Harris to Director, Content and Client Partnerships; and Ben Rosen to Senior Editor, StoryScout.
“Smg’s IP software service StoryScout has experienced explosive growth recently and the company is proud to promote those employees responsible for its success,” according to a statement from the company. StoryScout is an online marketplace that helps Smg match stories from its publishing clients with film and television production companies, writers, directors, and actors.
Fernandes has been with Storied Media Group since 2019. Before joining Smg, he consulted on Ott streaming services, content strategy, mobile-ad networks, and financial planning with various media companies. He began his career in the entertainment...
“Smg’s IP software service StoryScout has experienced explosive growth recently and the company is proud to promote those employees responsible for its success,” according to a statement from the company. StoryScout is an online marketplace that helps Smg match stories from its publishing clients with film and television production companies, writers, directors, and actors.
Fernandes has been with Storied Media Group since 2019. Before joining Smg, he consulted on Ott streaming services, content strategy, mobile-ad networks, and financial planning with various media companies. He began his career in the entertainment...
- 3/8/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
The Matrix Resurrections star Keanu Reeves is still in talks with Marvel, but the pair are searching for the right part for him to play in the MCU.
“Keanu Reeves has been a constant dream casting choice for many of our favorite heroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He is constantly on the tip of our tongues when we’re suggesting who he could play, and apparently, the star of The Matrix Resurrections has met with Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, and the two are working on finding something that works for both the MCU as a whole and Reeves.”
Read more at The Mary Sue
The biggest threat in Call of Duty right now is… Krampus?!
“I assumed getting murdered by Krampus at the end of a hotly contested Call of Duty match would be objectively funny, but it seems players are less than pleased with the mythological creature...
“Keanu Reeves has been a constant dream casting choice for many of our favorite heroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He is constantly on the tip of our tongues when we’re suggesting who he could play, and apparently, the star of The Matrix Resurrections has met with Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, and the two are working on finding something that works for both the MCU as a whole and Reeves.”
Read more at The Mary Sue
The biggest threat in Call of Duty right now is… Krampus?!
“I assumed getting murdered by Krampus at the end of a hotly contested Call of Duty match would be objectively funny, but it seems players are less than pleased with the mythological creature...
- 12/21/2021
- by Lee Parham
- Den of Geek
Fox News announced its plans to launch Fox Weather, a 24-hour streaming channel, last year and on Tuesday, the New York Times went deep on the weather TV business, which was the first time a lot of people had heard of the upcoming channel.
Unfortunately, online commentators seems to think any weather reports from Fox will be credible, or even objective. Many are joking the network will use the forecasts as a way to launch into other talking points, conspiracy theories, attacks on Democrats — or all three.
Author Chuck Wendig imagined how the broadcasts might go: “Next up, on Fox Weather: why are hurricanes teaching kids about Critical Race Theory? Then: climate change is just another example of cancel culture gone woke! Finally, a new report: The Storm Is Coming. I’m Ben Carson with the Weather.”
A rep for Fox News had no comment.
Why is fox launching a weather channel?...
Unfortunately, online commentators seems to think any weather reports from Fox will be credible, or even objective. Many are joking the network will use the forecasts as a way to launch into other talking points, conspiracy theories, attacks on Democrats — or all three.
Author Chuck Wendig imagined how the broadcasts might go: “Next up, on Fox Weather: why are hurricanes teaching kids about Critical Race Theory? Then: climate change is just another example of cancel culture gone woke! Finally, a new report: The Storm Is Coming. I’m Ben Carson with the Weather.”
A rep for Fox News had no comment.
Why is fox launching a weather channel?...
- 7/6/2021
- by Andi Ortiz
- The Wrap
CHICAGO -- A radiant drama about a concert pianist's emotional turmoil, "Shine" dazzled Saturday night viewers at the 32nd annual Chicago International Film Festival. Crescendoing with a number of previous festival accolades, this Fine Line release should similarly win the hearts of select-site audiences when it is released later this fall. It will surely grace many end-of-year top 10 lists.
"Shine" is based on a true story, centering on the life of one David Helfgott, a promising concert pianist who "cracked" under the strain of playing Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3. The breakdown was due only in part to the demands of confronting that awesome work on a technical, as well as artistic level, but had its roots in Helfgott's tumultuous childhood. In his household, his father (Armin Mueller-Stahl) ruled with an iron-fisted hand with one major goal in mind, that young David (Alex Rafalowicz) would someday be a great pianist.
In Jan Sardi's complex and perceptive scenario we see that the father's rule was in large part an attempt to live vicariously through the accomplishments of his son. But, we further see how his autocratic rule placed the young pianist in a contradictory bind: While his father encouraged him to the highest artistry, he also forbid many practices that would ensure David's reaching such a height.
Rafalowicz magically conveys that young boy's turmoil in marvelous, shimmering detail. He evinces both the boy's passion and talent, as well as providing clues to his insecurities and inner confusions. In effect, David Was expected to interpret works -- by Chopin and Liszt as well as Rachmaninoff -- with a feeling beyond his years. And more debilitating, his emotional life was so constricted by his father that David instinctively knew he did not have the range-of-life to adequately play such mature wonders.
Alternately lilting and frisky, "Shine" is a terrific, complex character study. Under Australian director Scott Hicks' wand, the players, as well as the technicians, combine in a wonderful symphony of passion and despair and rise ultimately in transcendent triumph.
In large part this is due to Geoffrey Rush's virtuoso performance as the gifted but troubled adult pianist. It is a truly poetic characterization, graced with idiosyncratic flourishes and enlivened by a number of cadenza-like interludes of almost slapstick desperation. Other cast members are similarly superb, particularly Mueller-Stahl as David's overbearing father and John Gielgud as a wily music professor.
Cinematographer Geoffrey Simpson's compositions are marvelously apt, conveying the emotional link between David's troubled world and the healing power of the music he plays. Propelled by telling, singular images, as well as grand 'scapes of the mind, "Shine" is also accentuated by Pip Karmel's crisp, but resonant editing.
SHINE
Fine Line Pictures
A Scott Hicks Film
Producer :Jane Scott
Director: Scott Hicks
Screenwriter :Jan Sardi
Director of photography:Geoffrey Simpson
Editor :Pip Karmel
Production designer:Vicki Niehus
Costume designer:Louise Wakefield
Music :David Hirschfelder
Color/stereo
David as an adult:Geoffrey Rush
David as a young man:Noah Taylor
David as a child :Alex Rafalowicz
Peter :Armin Mueller-Stahl
Gillian:Lynn Redgrave
Cecil Parkes :John Gielgud
Katharine:Susannan Prichard
Sylvia :Sonia Todd
Ben Rosen :Nicholas Bell
Running time -- 107 minutes...
"Shine" is based on a true story, centering on the life of one David Helfgott, a promising concert pianist who "cracked" under the strain of playing Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3. The breakdown was due only in part to the demands of confronting that awesome work on a technical, as well as artistic level, but had its roots in Helfgott's tumultuous childhood. In his household, his father (Armin Mueller-Stahl) ruled with an iron-fisted hand with one major goal in mind, that young David (Alex Rafalowicz) would someday be a great pianist.
In Jan Sardi's complex and perceptive scenario we see that the father's rule was in large part an attempt to live vicariously through the accomplishments of his son. But, we further see how his autocratic rule placed the young pianist in a contradictory bind: While his father encouraged him to the highest artistry, he also forbid many practices that would ensure David's reaching such a height.
Rafalowicz magically conveys that young boy's turmoil in marvelous, shimmering detail. He evinces both the boy's passion and talent, as well as providing clues to his insecurities and inner confusions. In effect, David Was expected to interpret works -- by Chopin and Liszt as well as Rachmaninoff -- with a feeling beyond his years. And more debilitating, his emotional life was so constricted by his father that David instinctively knew he did not have the range-of-life to adequately play such mature wonders.
Alternately lilting and frisky, "Shine" is a terrific, complex character study. Under Australian director Scott Hicks' wand, the players, as well as the technicians, combine in a wonderful symphony of passion and despair and rise ultimately in transcendent triumph.
In large part this is due to Geoffrey Rush's virtuoso performance as the gifted but troubled adult pianist. It is a truly poetic characterization, graced with idiosyncratic flourishes and enlivened by a number of cadenza-like interludes of almost slapstick desperation. Other cast members are similarly superb, particularly Mueller-Stahl as David's overbearing father and John Gielgud as a wily music professor.
Cinematographer Geoffrey Simpson's compositions are marvelously apt, conveying the emotional link between David's troubled world and the healing power of the music he plays. Propelled by telling, singular images, as well as grand 'scapes of the mind, "Shine" is also accentuated by Pip Karmel's crisp, but resonant editing.
SHINE
Fine Line Pictures
A Scott Hicks Film
Producer :Jane Scott
Director: Scott Hicks
Screenwriter :Jan Sardi
Director of photography:Geoffrey Simpson
Editor :Pip Karmel
Production designer:Vicki Niehus
Costume designer:Louise Wakefield
Music :David Hirschfelder
Color/stereo
David as an adult:Geoffrey Rush
David as a young man:Noah Taylor
David as a child :Alex Rafalowicz
Peter :Armin Mueller-Stahl
Gillian:Lynn Redgrave
Cecil Parkes :John Gielgud
Katharine:Susannan Prichard
Sylvia :Sonia Todd
Ben Rosen :Nicholas Bell
Running time -- 107 minutes...
- 10/14/1996
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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