Lionsgate Motion Picture Group Sets JP Richards As Marketing President, Keri Moore As Co-President

Nasim Cambron has been appointed as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Publicity for Lionsgate’s Motion Picture Group. She will assume the post on November 7, reporting to Lionsgate Motion Picture Group’s Co-President of Marketing, Keri Moore.

Reasonable Doubt, Onyx Collective’s first scripted series, is getting a special airing of its premiere episode on ABC. The debut episode of the legal drama series, which streams on Hulu, will air Thursday, November 10 at 10:01 PM EST.

EXCLUSIVE: Lauren Ashley Smith, a head writer of HBO’s A Black Lady Sketch Show, is developing a family comedy for ABC.

Newly crowned Warner Bros Film Group Co-Chairpersons and CEOs Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy will receive The Producers Guild of America’s 2023 Milestone Award.

EXCLUSIVE: Editors at NBC’s iconic Saturday Night Live have successfully organized with the Motion Picture Editors Guild (MPEG), Local 700 of IATSE. The post-production workers are part of SNL’s film unit, which creates the show’s prerecorded segments, including its popular music video parodies.

Lionsgate announced on Thursday that veteran executives JP Richards and Keri Moore will be joining the studio’s motion picture group as marketing heads. Richards, who will be the president of global marketing, joins the studio from Apple TV+ where he oversaw the marketing campaign for Best Picture Oscar winner “CODA.” Prior to Apple, Richards worked as SVP of Digital Marketing at Universal and Co-President of Global Marketing at Warner Bros.

Barunson E&A, the production company behind Oscar-winner Parasite, is set to officially launch its new international ventures at the upcoming American Film Market as it looks to expand into co-production, financing and sales.

Netflix is staying in the Yeon Sang-ho business, confirming production on his latest creation, The Bequeathed. A suspense drama, it weaves an intricate family history into a subject matter deeply rooted in Korean tradition: family burial grounds. 

LE SSERAFIM members are recovering after an incident.

There were so many celebs in attendance at the Elle Women in Hollywood event!

Viaplay Plans November 1 Launch Date For UK As Premier Sports Deal Closes

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Julianne Moore is set to lead Sky and AMC period-drama series Mary & George, about powerful royal family favourites Mary Villiers and her son George.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief While the Busan International Film Festival was busily hailing a return to normality the slump at South Korea’s commercial box office deepened dramatically over the most recent weekend. Cinemagoing nationwide was worth only $4.20 million between Friday and Sunday, the lowest weekend total since April and a time before Korean cinemas shed their COVID restrictions. The weekend’s top film “Life Is Beautiful” managed the lowest first place score of any film this year, with a weekend haul of just $777,000, according to data from Kobiz, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council (KOFIC).

K-pop stars are making a big impression!

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief SM Entertainment, one of the leading agency groups in Korean entertainment, said Friday that it will terminate a contract with Lee Soo-man, a year early, at the end of 2022. “SM Entertainment [..] will sever ties with its chief producer Lee Soo-man at the end of this year,” Yonhap news agency reported on Friday. Lee was one of the key figures in the early discovery of Korean pop talent in the mid-1990s, developing the agency system that has hatched numerous idol groups, and has remained one of the biggest executive names in the K-pop business. The four leading agencies are brand names in their own right, organize concerts for their stables of performers, and maintain a far more visible presence than music management firms in most other countries.

Heo Chan is leaving VICTON.

Welcome back to the Scene to Seen Podcast, I am your host Valerie Complex–assistant editor and film writer at Deadline.

Joe Drake has inked a new long-term employment agreement with Lionsgate as their Motion Picture Group Chair.