Joy Rosen, the co-founding partner and CEO of Toronto-based production, distribution and animation company Portfolio Entertainment, died June 8 following a year-long illness. She was 65.
Her death was announced by Portfolio’s co-ceo Lisa Olfman.
“Joy was my partner, my best friend, my sister-in-arms,” said Olfman in a statement. “Words can’t describe what a huge loss this is to her family, her friends, and to those in the business community who knew her.”
Rosen and Olfman co-founded Portfolio in 1991, launching the company from a spare bedroom “with a borrowed typewriter, a boatload of dreams and unwavering determination,” the company said in a statement. “Joy and Lisa transformed Portfolio Entertainment into a leading production, distribution and animation company of kids and family entertainment with an iconic roster that includes the PBS Kids Emmy Award-winning series The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That!, Hero Elementary, Doki and Groundling Marsh.
Her death was announced by Portfolio’s co-ceo Lisa Olfman.
“Joy was my partner, my best friend, my sister-in-arms,” said Olfman in a statement. “Words can’t describe what a huge loss this is to her family, her friends, and to those in the business community who knew her.”
Rosen and Olfman co-founded Portfolio in 1991, launching the company from a spare bedroom “with a borrowed typewriter, a boatload of dreams and unwavering determination,” the company said in a statement. “Joy and Lisa transformed Portfolio Entertainment into a leading production, distribution and animation company of kids and family entertainment with an iconic roster that includes the PBS Kids Emmy Award-winning series The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That!, Hero Elementary, Doki and Groundling Marsh.
- 6/12/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
“If you’re a kid with powers, then where’s the place to be? You belong at “Hero Elementary!”
Four young students take the cartoon stage as superheroes-in-training on the kids’ TV series “Hero Elementary.” This animated show on PBS Kids is free for millions of children to watch across the globe. In each half-hour episode, uniformed student superheroes practice their superpowers and learn regular skills in day-saving scenarios at their special elementary school for super kids.
“Who’s the crew who knows what to do?!”
Known as the Sparks’ Crew (see details below), the four main characters use their superpowers to solve youth-level mysteries around Citytown — mysteries that serve as lessons taught by their teacher, Mr. Sparks. The group is challenged to use Stem skills, especially when they realize their superpowers can’t help them completely. In the segment titled “The Sweet Smell of Success,” for example, the crew...
Four young students take the cartoon stage as superheroes-in-training on the kids’ TV series “Hero Elementary.” This animated show on PBS Kids is free for millions of children to watch across the globe. In each half-hour episode, uniformed student superheroes practice their superpowers and learn regular skills in day-saving scenarios at their special elementary school for super kids.
“Who’s the crew who knows what to do?!”
Known as the Sparks’ Crew (see details below), the four main characters use their superpowers to solve youth-level mysteries around Citytown — mysteries that serve as lessons taught by their teacher, Mr. Sparks. The group is challenged to use Stem skills, especially when they realize their superpowers can’t help them completely. In the segment titled “The Sweet Smell of Success,” for example, the crew...
- 9/1/2022
- by Buddy TV
- buddytv.com
Hungary Selects Oscar Entry
Hungary has selected Péter Bergendy’s Post Mortem as its official entry for the International Oscar race this year. The period horror tells the supernatural story of a post mortem photographer and a little girl confronting ghosts in a haunted village after the First World War. The film premiered at Warsaw Iff and Stiges Film Festivals last year and earned awards at Trieste, Fantasporto, Sombra and Parma genre festivals, while winning the 2021 Hungarian Motion Picture Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Production Design and Best Make-Up. Int’l sales are handled by Nfi World Sales.
Apc launches Israeli drama at MIPCOM
Boutique distributor About Premium Content (Apc) will debut Israeli social drama series Unknowns at next week’s MIPCOM, following its international competition premiere at Canneseries. The nine-parter, which is produced by Rabel Films for Israeli broadcaster Kan and created by HBO’s Our Boys’ Nirit Yaron and Tawfik Abu-Wael,...
Hungary has selected Péter Bergendy’s Post Mortem as its official entry for the International Oscar race this year. The period horror tells the supernatural story of a post mortem photographer and a little girl confronting ghosts in a haunted village after the First World War. The film premiered at Warsaw Iff and Stiges Film Festivals last year and earned awards at Trieste, Fantasporto, Sombra and Parma genre festivals, while winning the 2021 Hungarian Motion Picture Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Production Design and Best Make-Up. Int’l sales are handled by Nfi World Sales.
Apc launches Israeli drama at MIPCOM
Boutique distributor About Premium Content (Apc) will debut Israeli social drama series Unknowns at next week’s MIPCOM, following its international competition premiere at Canneseries. The nine-parter, which is produced by Rabel Films for Israeli broadcaster Kan and created by HBO’s Our Boys’ Nirit Yaron and Tawfik Abu-Wael,...
- 10/6/2021
- by Max Goldbart and Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
We’re still a couple of weeks out from The Boys returning with its second season, but based on the footage we’ve seen so far, it certainly looks as if we’re in for another wild ride. One that may even top the first run of the show, which was one of the best things that we’d seen on television in a long time.
Of course, trying to predict how something as crazy as The Boys is going to end up is a fool’s errand, but let’s not forget that it won’t be the only new thing arriving on Amazon Prime in September. Far from it, in fact.
Earlier today, the streaming service announced their entire line-up of new titles for next month and it’s a meaty list, comprising both films and television shows. And though The Boys may be the highlight for many...
Of course, trying to predict how something as crazy as The Boys is going to end up is a fool’s errand, but let’s not forget that it won’t be the only new thing arriving on Amazon Prime in September. Far from it, in fact.
Earlier today, the streaming service announced their entire line-up of new titles for next month and it’s a meaty list, comprising both films and television shows. And though The Boys may be the highlight for many...
- 8/26/2020
- by Matt Joseph
- We Got This Covered
An election season is fast-approaching in the U.S. So for its new releases in September 2020, Amazon Prime is bringing back one of its most political shows.
The Boys season 2 premieres its first three episodes on September 4. Though the show on its face is a superhero story, viewers of season 1 will know it’s really about America’s troubling embrace of entertainment with fascism. Sounds fun and not at all terrifying right before a presidential election!
That’s not the only bleak Amazon original on the schedule for September. British TV adaptation Utopia arrives on September 25. This Gillian Flynn-produced series follows fans of a comic book who believe it predicts…world-ending pandemics. Darn it. Amazon’s only original film this month is a…documentary about voter suppression from Liz Garbus called All In: The Fight for Democracy. Yikes.
For those of us who want to relax with some ‘member berries,...
The Boys season 2 premieres its first three episodes on September 4. Though the show on its face is a superhero story, viewers of season 1 will know it’s really about America’s troubling embrace of entertainment with fascism. Sounds fun and not at all terrifying right before a presidential election!
That’s not the only bleak Amazon original on the schedule for September. British TV adaptation Utopia arrives on September 25. This Gillian Flynn-produced series follows fans of a comic book who believe it predicts…world-ending pandemics. Darn it. Amazon’s only original film this month is a…documentary about voter suppression from Liz Garbus called All In: The Fight for Democracy. Yikes.
For those of us who want to relax with some ‘member berries,...
- 8/26/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
With Hollywood production being sideswiped by the coronavirus pandemic, it was a wild spring for the TV world. And there’s still not much clarity as we swing into the summer season. But the shows must go on — most of them, anyway — so here is our annual list of summer premiere dates for new series and new seasons of returning shows. It covers more than 150 broadcast, cable and streaming series bowing from June 1 through August 31 in various dayparts but does not include specials or movies. Please send any additions or adjustments to erik@deadline.com. We’ll update the post regularly as more dates are revealed.
June 1:
The Titan Games (NBC, Season 2; time slot premiere)
90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way
Below Deck Mediterranean
Hero Elementary
Royalties
June 2:
Fuller House
Maxxx (Hulu,...
June 1:
The Titan Games (NBC, Season 2; time slot premiere)
90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way
Below Deck Mediterranean
Hero Elementary
Royalties
June 2:
Fuller House
Maxxx (Hulu,...
- 5/25/2020
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
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