Exclusive: Showtime has opted not to proceed with spy thriller Intelligence, from The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty screenwriter Mark Boal.
In April, the network gave a series commitment and opened a writers’ room for the real-world scripted drama, which was produced by Michael Ellenberg’s studio Media Res.
Written by Boal in his first foray into TV series, Intelligence, based on real stories from around the world, looked to explore the secret inner workings of power – how espionage intersects with politics, finance, media and Silicon Valley. The first season was planned to dramatize the behind-the-scenes history leading up to the 2016 U.S. election, with each subsequent season looking at a major world event through the lens of covert operations.
Showtime Networks Co-President of Entertainment Gary Levine told Deadline that the project will not make it to the pilot stage after not coming together creatively.
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In April, the network gave a series commitment and opened a writers’ room for the real-world scripted drama, which was produced by Michael Ellenberg’s studio Media Res.
Written by Boal in his first foray into TV series, Intelligence, based on real stories from around the world, looked to explore the secret inner workings of power – how espionage intersects with politics, finance, media and Silicon Valley. The first season was planned to dramatize the behind-the-scenes history leading up to the 2016 U.S. election, with each subsequent season looking at a major world event through the lens of covert operations.
Showtime Networks Co-President of Entertainment Gary Levine told Deadline that the project will not make it to the pilot stage after not coming together creatively.
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- 1/14/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
First season will dramatise events leading up to 2016 Us election.
Hurt Locker writer-producer Mark Boal is set to make his first major foray into television with Intelligence, a scripted series for Showtime based on real stories from around the world about the intersection of espionage, politics, finance and media.
Boal will write, direct and serve as executive producer on the series, whose first season will dramatise the behind-the-scenes events leading up to the 2016 Us election.
Us premium cable network Showtime has given the project a ‘series commitment’ (just short of a formal order) and has opened a writers room for the spy thriller.
Hurt Locker writer-producer Mark Boal is set to make his first major foray into television with Intelligence, a scripted series for Showtime based on real stories from around the world about the intersection of espionage, politics, finance and media.
Boal will write, direct and serve as executive producer on the series, whose first season will dramatise the behind-the-scenes events leading up to the 2016 Us election.
Us premium cable network Showtime has given the project a ‘series commitment’ (just short of a formal order) and has opened a writers room for the spy thriller.
- 4/1/2019
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
Showtime is developing “Intelligence,” a spy thriller from “Hurt Locker” and “Zero Dark Thirty” alum Mark Boal.
The pay cable network has given “Intelligence” a series commitment and opened a writers room. Boal would write, direct and executive produce the series, making this his first TV project. It does not yet have a formal series order.
“As he showed with both ‘The Hurt Locker’ and ‘Zero Dark Thirty,’ Mark truly excels at transforming current events into gripping, scripted drama,” said Gary Levine, president of entertainment, Showtime Networks Inc. “When he told us he wanted to use those same, extraordinary abilities to create his first television series, we leapt at it.”
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Based on real stories from around the world, the series will explore the secret inner-workings of power and how espionage intersects with politics,...
The pay cable network has given “Intelligence” a series commitment and opened a writers room. Boal would write, direct and executive produce the series, making this his first TV project. It does not yet have a formal series order.
“As he showed with both ‘The Hurt Locker’ and ‘Zero Dark Thirty,’ Mark truly excels at transforming current events into gripping, scripted drama,” said Gary Levine, president of entertainment, Showtime Networks Inc. “When he told us he wanted to use those same, extraordinary abilities to create his first television series, we leapt at it.”
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Based on real stories from around the world, the series will explore the secret inner-workings of power and how espionage intersects with politics,...
- 4/1/2019
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
Mark Boal, the former journalist who wrote and produced “The Hurt Locker” and “Zero Dark Thirty,” is returning to the espionage arena and dipping his toe into television for the first time, Variety has learned.
Showtime has made a series commitment for “Intelligence,” a spy thriller series which Boal will write, direct and executive produce. The show, based on real stories from around the world, will explore the secret inner workings of power and how espionage intersects with politics, finance, media and Silicon Valley. The first season will dramatize the behind-the-scenes history leading up to the 2016 U.S. election, with each potential subsequent season looking at a major world event through the lens of covert operations.
“As he showed with both ‘The Hurt Locker’ and ‘Zero Dark Thirty,’ Mark truly excels at transforming current events into gripping, scripted drama,” said Gary Levine, President of Entertainment at Showtime. “When he told...
Showtime has made a series commitment for “Intelligence,” a spy thriller series which Boal will write, direct and executive produce. The show, based on real stories from around the world, will explore the secret inner workings of power and how espionage intersects with politics, finance, media and Silicon Valley. The first season will dramatize the behind-the-scenes history leading up to the 2016 U.S. election, with each potential subsequent season looking at a major world event through the lens of covert operations.
“As he showed with both ‘The Hurt Locker’ and ‘Zero Dark Thirty,’ Mark truly excels at transforming current events into gripping, scripted drama,” said Gary Levine, President of Entertainment at Showtime. “When he told...
- 4/1/2019
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
Showtime has given a series commitment and opened a writers room for spy thriller Intelligence, a real-world scripted drama series from Oscar-winning filmmaker Mark Boal in his first foray into television; his frequent collaborator, producer Megan Ellison; and Michael Ellenberg’s studio Media Res, which will co-produce with Showtime.
Seasoned drama showrunners Alan Poul (Six Feet Under) and Jason Horwitch (Berlin Station) have joined the project as executive producers, working alongside executive producer/showrunner Boal.
Written and directed by Boal, Intelligence, based on real stories from around the world, will explore the secret inner workings of power – how espionage intersects with politics, finance, media and Silicon Valley. The first season will dramatize the behind-the-scenes history leading up to the 2016 U.S. election, with each subsequent season looking at a major world event through the lens of covert operations.
Intelligence is a co-production between Showtime and Ellenberg’s Media Res.
Seasoned drama showrunners Alan Poul (Six Feet Under) and Jason Horwitch (Berlin Station) have joined the project as executive producers, working alongside executive producer/showrunner Boal.
Written and directed by Boal, Intelligence, based on real stories from around the world, will explore the secret inner workings of power – how espionage intersects with politics, finance, media and Silicon Valley. The first season will dramatize the behind-the-scenes history leading up to the 2016 U.S. election, with each subsequent season looking at a major world event through the lens of covert operations.
Intelligence is a co-production between Showtime and Ellenberg’s Media Res.
- 4/1/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Screenwriter-producer Mark Boal has just signed with Wme in all areas. The agency will rep Boal and his production company Page 1, which is overseen by former New York Times journalist Hugo Lindgren with Jonathan Leven serving as COO. Boal most recently wrote and produced Detroit, the Kathryn Bigelow-directed period drama that will be released on August 4 by Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures, which has a first-look deal with Page 1. Boal produced the film with…...
- 7/7/2017
- Deadline
The film recently won awards at HotDocs in Toronto.
Topic, First Look Media’s newly branded entertainment studio, will acquire Us rights to Tali Shemesh and Asaf Sudry’s Death In The Terminal.
The deal is being negotiated by Ryan Heller, vice-president of acquisitions for First Look Media, with CAA on behalf of the filmmakers.
On October 18, 2015, a terrorist armed with a gun and a knife entered a bus terminal in the Southern Israeli city of Beersheba. Using surveillance footage, cellphone cameras, and eyewitness and participant testimonies, the film presents a real-time account of the series of tragic events that unfolded over the ensuing 18 minutes.
The documentary won top prizes at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam and Israel’s Academy Awards.
“This film is a powerful portrayal of how storytelling shifts our perception of people, events and even our own preconceptions,” Adam Pincus, First Look Media’s executive vice-president of programming and content said. “Death In The Terminal is a perfect...
Topic, First Look Media’s newly branded entertainment studio, will acquire Us rights to Tali Shemesh and Asaf Sudry’s Death In The Terminal.
The deal is being negotiated by Ryan Heller, vice-president of acquisitions for First Look Media, with CAA on behalf of the filmmakers.
On October 18, 2015, a terrorist armed with a gun and a knife entered a bus terminal in the Southern Israeli city of Beersheba. Using surveillance footage, cellphone cameras, and eyewitness and participant testimonies, the film presents a real-time account of the series of tragic events that unfolded over the ensuing 18 minutes.
The documentary won top prizes at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam and Israel’s Academy Awards.
“This film is a powerful portrayal of how storytelling shifts our perception of people, events and even our own preconceptions,” Adam Pincus, First Look Media’s executive vice-president of programming and content said. “Death In The Terminal is a perfect...
- 5/10/2017
- ScreenDaily
Oscar-winning screenwriter Mark Boal and Annapurna Pictures’ Megan Ellison launched the production company Page1 with the intention of developing material based on reporting of actual events, so it was only a matter of time before they got into the documentary business.
That’s happening now with the announcement that the company has signed on as executive producers of the Israeli documentary “Death in the Terminal,” which will be released in the U.S. by First Look Media, and Boal said in an interview that his company would be scouting documentary festivals for more new work. “There’s a ton of stuff out there, and a lot of it is really good,” he said.
The hourlong “Death in the Terminal,” directed by Tali Shemesh and Asaf Sundry, provides a deep-dive into a 2015 incident in an Israeli train station in which the pandemonium following a terrorist attack led to a mob mentality with dire consequences.
That’s happening now with the announcement that the company has signed on as executive producers of the Israeli documentary “Death in the Terminal,” which will be released in the U.S. by First Look Media, and Boal said in an interview that his company would be scouting documentary festivals for more new work. “There’s a ton of stuff out there, and a lot of it is really good,” he said.
The hourlong “Death in the Terminal,” directed by Tali Shemesh and Asaf Sundry, provides a deep-dive into a 2015 incident in an Israeli train station in which the pandemonium following a terrorist attack led to a mob mentality with dire consequences.
- 5/10/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
President Trump and Hillary Clinton's 2016 election was theatrical enough in reality. Now the race is getting a television adaptation by Oscar-winning writer Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) and producer Megan Ellison (Zero Dark Thirty, Her). The duo announced plans for a mini-series based on the election, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The duo previously collaborated on film thriller Zero Dark Thirty, which chronicled another monumental headline from recent years: the hunt and Navy S.E.A.L. killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. Page 1 president Hugo Lindgren,...
The duo previously collaborated on film thriller Zero Dark Thirty, which chronicled another monumental headline from recent years: the hunt and Navy S.E.A.L. killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. Page 1 president Hugo Lindgren,...
- 2/15/2017
- Rollingstone.com
The Serial podcast, for its second season, will reportedly focus on the circumstances surrounding the Taliban’s 2009 capture of Army sergeant Bowe Bergdahl and his subsequent five-years in captivity. Serial Tackling Bowe Bergdahl? This time around, Serial‘s Sarah Koenig is teaming up with Page One’s Mark Boal and Hugo Lindgren to unearth new information concerning Bergdahl’s story, according to […]
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The post Will ‘Serial’s Second Season Focus On Bowe Bergdahl? appeared first on uInterview.
- 9/24/2015
- by Chelsea Regan
- Uinterview
Serial, the Peabody Award-winning podcast that spun off from This American Life and became a viral sensation, has found its second season subject. They will focus on the mystery behind Bowe Bergdahl, the Army sergeant captured by the Taliban and held prisoner for five years after inexplicably leaving his base in Afghanistan. Front and center in all this is Page One’s Mark Boal and Hugo Lindgren, the former New York Times editor who runs his company. Backed by Megan…...
- 9/23/2015
- Deadline
The Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Hurt Locker and Kathryn Bigelow collaborator is backed by Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures.
Boal will serve as CEO of the La-based company while former New York Times Magazine editor Hugo Lindgren is named president based in New York.
Annapurna will hand-pick Page 1 projects to finance and produce. Matthew Budman will liaise for Annapurna and previously collaborated with Boal on Zero Dark Thirty as co-producer.
Zero Dark Thirty co-producer and longtime Boal associate Jonathan Leven has joined the company in a development/production executive position.
Boal will producer Page 1 projects and may write screenplays or teleplay adaptations. Ellison will come on in a producer or executive producer role.
Page 1 will focus on film and TV based on reported actual events. The aim is to unite filmmakers and screenwriters with non-fiction authors and journalists on projects.
The company may collaborate with reporters and rights holders on book projects that expand their coverage of an issue...
Boal will serve as CEO of the La-based company while former New York Times Magazine editor Hugo Lindgren is named president based in New York.
Annapurna will hand-pick Page 1 projects to finance and produce. Matthew Budman will liaise for Annapurna and previously collaborated with Boal on Zero Dark Thirty as co-producer.
Zero Dark Thirty co-producer and longtime Boal associate Jonathan Leven has joined the company in a development/production executive position.
Boal will producer Page 1 projects and may write screenplays or teleplay adaptations. Ellison will come on in a producer or executive producer role.
Page 1 will focus on film and TV based on reported actual events. The aim is to unite filmmakers and screenwriters with non-fiction authors and journalists on projects.
The company may collaborate with reporters and rights holders on book projects that expand their coverage of an issue...
- 5/6/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Mark Boal, the journalist-turned-filmmaker who teamed with Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, has formed Page 1. The production company will hatch films and TV that will be backed by Megan Ellison‘s Annapurna Pictures. She financed Zero Dark Thirty, which Boal wrote and produced. Boal will be CEO and he has named as president Hugo Lindgren, a former editor of The New York Times Magazine and editorial director of New York Magazine. Matthew Budman will be the Annapurna executive overseeing Page 1; he worked closely with Boal on Zero Dark Thirty. Jonathan Leven will be a development/production exec. Boal and Lindgren will play to their journalist strengths to find articles and books to generate fact-based films. It should be an empowering venture for investigative journalists. “There are great stories being told everyday by reporters who dig deep and provide not only great reportage, but insights into who we are as societies,...
- 5/6/2014
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Yet again, Megan Ellison is putting her money on talent. Now, rather than looking at various CAA projects and giving creative freedom to top A-list directors like David O. Russell, Paul Thomas Anderson and Spike Jonze, this time the billionaire scion of Oracle's Larry Ellison is backing another production company. Annapurna also financed "The Hurt Locker" team of producer-writer Mark Boal and director Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty," so it was assumed that Ellison might be supporting them again. Boal and Bigelow have been working on another script. But this is a bigger play--bankrolling Boal's new "writer-driven" film and television production company, Page 1, of which he will be CEO. Former New York Magazine and New York Times Magazine editor and respected journalist Hugo Lindgren will be president of the new company. He recently served as interim editor of The Hollywood Reporter. Annapurna's Matthew Budman, who worked with Boal on "Zero Dark Thirty,...
- 5/6/2014
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Mark Boal, the Oscar-winning writer and producer behind Zero Dark Thirty and The Hurt Locker, has secured funding from Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures for his Page 1 movie and television production banner. At the same time, Boal has tapped former New York Times Magazine editor Hugo Lindgren, who most recently served as acting editor of The Hollywood Reporter, to run the shingle, acting as company president. Lindgren will be based in New York. Matthew Budman, a co-producer on Zero Dark Thirty, will be Annapurna's executive overseeing Page 1, which has a goal of teaming journalists and authors with
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- 5/6/2014
- by Rebecca Ford, Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Former New York Times Magazine editor Hugo Lindgren has been named acting editor of the Hollywood Reporter, overseeing the newsroom as Janice Min turns her focus to Billboard. Min recently ascended to the post of co-president and chief creative officer for Guggenheim Media’s Entertainment Group, expanding her purview beyond the Hollywood trade to include editorial oversight of the music magazine. Also read: The Hollywood Reporter Apologizes to Deadline Parent Company, Settles Lawsuit Lindgren has a strong track record in the New York editorial scene, working at Bloomberg Businessweek and New York magazine before taking over the Times’ Sunday magazine.
- 1/10/2014
- by Lucas Shaw
- The Wrap
Hugo Lindgren, formerly The New York Times Magazine editor in chief, has been named acting editor of The Hollywood Reporter. Janice Min, the newly named co-president and chief creative officer of the Entertainment Group of Guggenheim Media, announced the news Friday. For three years, Lindgren served as top editor for the Times magazine. Previously, he was deputy editor of Bloomberg Businessweek and editorial director of New York magazine under Adam Moss. Lindgren will serve as THR's acting editor for the next three months, reporting to Min and relocating to Los Angeles on Jan. 27. The news follows the announcement of
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- 1/10/2014
- by THR Staff
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Brian Stelter’s debut as the new host of CNN’s “Reliable Sources” drew less than stellar numbers on Sunday, drawing an underwhelming 400,000 total viewers and 118,000 viewers in the key 25-54 news demographic, according to Nielsen. Compared with the average for the fourth quarter of the year, Stelter’s “Reliable Sources” premiere was down 10 percent in total viewers and 9 percent in the demo. And versus the most recent airing of “Reliable Sources” on Nov. 24, Stelter’s premiere was off 35 percent in total viewers and 49 percent in the demo. Also read: New York Times Exodus: Hugo Lindgren, Brian Stelter...
- 12/10/2013
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
The New York Times is losing three more high-profile staffers in one fell swoop: Hugo Lindgren, editor of New York Times Magazine; Matt Bai, the magazine’s chief political correspondent, and media reporter Brian Stelter each said they were leaving the paper on Tuesday. Hugo Lindgren, who has edited the magazine since October 2010, will depart at the end of the year, he informed co-workers on Tuesday. According to (of course) the New York Times, Lindgren “choked up and described the last few days as difficult” when making the announcement to his staff. Capital New York was the first to report that Lindgren.
- 11/12/2013
- by Sara Morrison
- The Wrap
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