Netflix is about to make its Broadway producing debut, joining the team of Peter Morgan’s upcoming play Patriots.
The play from the creator of the Netflix signature series The Crown arrives on Broadway April 1 for a 12-week engagement following a record-breaking run at London’s Almeida Theatre and a sold-out 12-week West End transfer at the Noël Coward Theatre. Opening night at Broadway’s Ethel Barrymore Theatre is April 22.
The play is set in 1991 after the fall of the Soviet Union and chronicles the rise of oligarchs like billionaire Boris Berezovsky (Michael Stuhlbarg) and a little-known deputy mayor of St. Petersburg named Vladimir Putin (Will Keen). When an eventual successor to President Boris Yeltsin is needed, Berezovsky turns to Putin, whose ruthless rise threatens Berezovsky’s reign and sets off a confrontation between the two powerful, fatally flawed men.
Netflix’s participation was announced in a press release today...
The play from the creator of the Netflix signature series The Crown arrives on Broadway April 1 for a 12-week engagement following a record-breaking run at London’s Almeida Theatre and a sold-out 12-week West End transfer at the Noël Coward Theatre. Opening night at Broadway’s Ethel Barrymore Theatre is April 22.
The play is set in 1991 after the fall of the Soviet Union and chronicles the rise of oligarchs like billionaire Boris Berezovsky (Michael Stuhlbarg) and a little-known deputy mayor of St. Petersburg named Vladimir Putin (Will Keen). When an eventual successor to President Boris Yeltsin is needed, Berezovsky turns to Putin, whose ruthless rise threatens Berezovsky’s reign and sets off a confrontation between the two powerful, fatally flawed men.
Netflix’s participation was announced in a press release today...
- 2/27/2024
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Veteran entertainment exec Peter Liguori has taken the reins of ad tech firm VideoAmp as executive chairman amid the layoffs of 20% of its workforce in a restructuring.
Liguori, who had already been serving as a board member at VideoAmp, was previously CEO of Tribune Media and also held senior exec posts at Fox Entertainment, FX and Discovery. He replaces Ross McCray, who founded VideoAmp in 2014 and is transitioning to a role as “active founder, board member and shareholder,” according to an official announcement.
VideoAmp is among a crop of new challengers to Nielsen, whose decades-long grip on the measurement business — the wonky but all-important glue of the $60 billion TV ad market — has loosened in recent years. Startups like VideoAmp are jockeying for legitimacy while spending heavily on executive talent and technology, against a backdrop of cord-cutting and viewership atomization.
VideoAmp has set deals recently with Amazon, Disney, YouTube, Warner Bros. Discovery,...
Liguori, who had already been serving as a board member at VideoAmp, was previously CEO of Tribune Media and also held senior exec posts at Fox Entertainment, FX and Discovery. He replaces Ross McCray, who founded VideoAmp in 2014 and is transitioning to a role as “active founder, board member and shareholder,” according to an official announcement.
VideoAmp is among a crop of new challengers to Nielsen, whose decades-long grip on the measurement business — the wonky but all-important glue of the $60 billion TV ad market — has loosened in recent years. Startups like VideoAmp are jockeying for legitimacy while spending heavily on executive talent and technology, against a backdrop of cord-cutting and viewership atomization.
VideoAmp has set deals recently with Amazon, Disney, YouTube, Warner Bros. Discovery,...
- 1/5/2024
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
The founder of VideoAmp, a measurement-technology start-up that has been vying with Nielsen and others to create a new means of tabulating video audiences, is stepping down from his CEO role just as the company plans to lay off nearly a fifth of its staff.
Ross McCray, who led VideoAmp as it struck deals with titans such as Paramount Global and Warner Bros. Discovery, will remain as a shareholder and board member at VideoAmp. Peter Liguori, an industry veteran who has led Fox Entertainment, FX and Tribune Media, among other companies, will take on the role of executive chairman while Peter Bradbury, a former Nielsen executive, is taking on roles as VideoAmp’s chief commercial and growth officer.
“This was an extremely hard and emotional decision for me. I always knew after starting VideoAmp — if we were successful — this day would come. I have wished and dreaded for this day to come for 10 years.
Ross McCray, who led VideoAmp as it struck deals with titans such as Paramount Global and Warner Bros. Discovery, will remain as a shareholder and board member at VideoAmp. Peter Liguori, an industry veteran who has led Fox Entertainment, FX and Tribune Media, among other companies, will take on the role of executive chairman while Peter Bradbury, a former Nielsen executive, is taking on roles as VideoAmp’s chief commercial and growth officer.
“This was an extremely hard and emotional decision for me. I always knew after starting VideoAmp — if we were successful — this day would come. I have wished and dreaded for this day to come for 10 years.
- 1/4/2024
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
Hangmen, Martin McDonagh’s Olivier Award-winning comedy that became (seemingly) an early casualty of Broadway’s 2020 Covid shutdown, has gotten a reprieve: The play will begin previews at Broadway’s Golden Theatre on Friday, April 8, with an opening night set for Thursday, April 21.
Co-starring in the limited 10-week engagement will be Alfie Allen, best known to American audiences for his indelible Game of Thrones portrayal of Theon “Reek” Greyjoy, and David Threlfall, returning to Broadway for the first time in 25 years.
The Royal Court Theatre/Atlantic Theater Company production of Hangmen will be directed by Matthew Dunster, who directed the pre-shutdown Broadway staging that co-starred Downton Abbey‘s Dan Stevens and Game of Thrones‘ Mark Addy as Harry (now to be played by Threlfall).
Prior to the shutdown, Hangmen began previews at the Golden on February 28, 2020, and was scheduled...
Co-starring in the limited 10-week engagement will be Alfie Allen, best known to American audiences for his indelible Game of Thrones portrayal of Theon “Reek” Greyjoy, and David Threlfall, returning to Broadway for the first time in 25 years.
The Royal Court Theatre/Atlantic Theater Company production of Hangmen will be directed by Matthew Dunster, who directed the pre-shutdown Broadway staging that co-starred Downton Abbey‘s Dan Stevens and Game of Thrones‘ Mark Addy as Harry (now to be played by Threlfall).
Prior to the shutdown, Hangmen began previews at the Golden on February 28, 2020, and was scheduled...
- 2/1/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Nielsen, the company that measures TV audiences every day, says it still needs a few weeks to get its counting procedures back to normal.
In a May 6 letter to TV networks and other clients, media-measurement giant Nielsen said it is still working to “resolve outstanding maintenance needs” in approximately 2700 homes that serve in its panel of consumers, and will likely not complete that work until the end of May. Nielsen has been under scrutiny for weeks by the big media companies who pay millions of dollars a year for its services after it acknowledged it had stopped sending field agents to homes during the coronavirus pandemic. The TV networks believe this has led to a significant undercounting of TV audiences for the past year.
“The complications include a year-long suspension of in-home field servicing of empaneled households and extensive changes to household withholding procedures that resulted in 9,400 impaired/compromised homes...
In a May 6 letter to TV networks and other clients, media-measurement giant Nielsen said it is still working to “resolve outstanding maintenance needs” in approximately 2700 homes that serve in its panel of consumers, and will likely not complete that work until the end of May. Nielsen has been under scrutiny for weeks by the big media companies who pay millions of dollars a year for its services after it acknowledged it had stopped sending field agents to homes during the coronavirus pandemic. The TV networks believe this has led to a significant undercounting of TV audiences for the past year.
“The complications include a year-long suspension of in-home field servicing of empaneled households and extensive changes to household withholding procedures that resulted in 9,400 impaired/compromised homes...
- 5/7/2021
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
Broadway’s Brian d’Arcy James will join the cast of Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman next month, leading a largely new company of replacement players in the primary adult roles beginning Tuesday, Feb. 19.
D’Arcy James will take over the role of Quinn Carney from departing cast member Paddy Considine. The actor is one of 15 new cast members announced by producers Sonia Friedman Productions and Neal Street Productions today.
All of the announced newcomers begin next month except for Orange is the New Black‘s Blair Brown, who takes over the role of Aunt Maggie Far Away from Fionnula Flanagan on Tuesday, April 16.
Others in the February replacement cast are Holley Fain, Emily Bergl, Fred Applegate, Ralph Brown, Sean Delaney, Jack Difalco, Ethan Dubin, Shuler Hensley, Terence Keeley, Collin Kelly-Sordelet, Ann McDonough, Julia Nightingale and Graham Winton.
The production, directed by Sam Mendes, includes 17 main adults, four children, and...
D’Arcy James will take over the role of Quinn Carney from departing cast member Paddy Considine. The actor is one of 15 new cast members announced by producers Sonia Friedman Productions and Neal Street Productions today.
All of the announced newcomers begin next month except for Orange is the New Black‘s Blair Brown, who takes over the role of Aunt Maggie Far Away from Fionnula Flanagan on Tuesday, April 16.
Others in the February replacement cast are Holley Fain, Emily Bergl, Fred Applegate, Ralph Brown, Sean Delaney, Jack Difalco, Ethan Dubin, Shuler Hensley, Terence Keeley, Collin Kelly-Sordelet, Ann McDonough, Julia Nightingale and Graham Winton.
The production, directed by Sam Mendes, includes 17 main adults, four children, and...
- 1/8/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
CBS and Nielsen said today they are collaborating on a plan to bring dynamic ad insertion (Dai) to live, linear national broadcast TV, an effort they say will make the advertising experience more relevant and engaging for viewers.
The Dai solution relies on automatic content recognition technology from Gracenote, a company Nielsen bought from Tribune Media in 2016.
The technique promotes what industry execs describe as “addressable advertising,” meaning TV ad messages that are addressed to individual viewers. Spots promoting a car brand, for example, could be shown to a viewer who the network and advertiser knows to be shopping for a certain car, with a certain amount of income and other key behavioral attributes. Current methods shotgun those ads out across the airwaves, directing them more broadly to demographic swaths according to age or gender. This approach has gotten increasingly exposed as inefficient in recent years, especially as digital video...
The Dai solution relies on automatic content recognition technology from Gracenote, a company Nielsen bought from Tribune Media in 2016.
The technique promotes what industry execs describe as “addressable advertising,” meaning TV ad messages that are addressed to individual viewers. Spots promoting a car brand, for example, could be shown to a viewer who the network and advertiser knows to be shopping for a certain car, with a certain amount of income and other key behavioral attributes. Current methods shotgun those ads out across the airwaves, directing them more broadly to demographic swaths according to age or gender. This approach has gotten increasingly exposed as inefficient in recent years, especially as digital video...
- 5/14/2018
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
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