Pixar Vet Joins Looking out For Sugar Man Indie Ardour – International Briefs – Deadline

Pixar Vet Alan Barillaro Strikes To Ardour Footage

Looking out For Sugar Man producer Ardour Footage has signed Oscar-winning Pixar veteran Alan Barillaro as Artistic Director for its Animation division. Barillaro will spearhead Ardour’s push into animated options and TV collection, having already been behind the likes of Netflix’s Love, Dying and Robots. He’s the second Pixar veteran to hitch Ardour previously 12 months, following David Park’s transfer to be Head of Manufacturing and Exec Producer. Barillaro joined Pixar in 1997 and labored on the likes of A Bug’s Life, Lightyear, Discovering Nemo and The Incredibles, together with successful an Oscar for animated quick Piper. He not too long ago secured a worldwide three-book cope with Candlewick Press and the Walker Books Group. Ardour Founder Andrew Ruhemann referred to as him a “true pioneer within the animation world and an inspiration to many.” Barillaro hailed Ardour as a “inventive hub for among the most expertise and celebrated artists within the trade.”

‘First Dates’ Creator Joins Banijay Label RDF

First Dates creator Meredith Chambers has joined Banijay label RDF as Managing Director. Chambers joins after eight years as MD of Million Pound Menu producer Electrical Ray, which was not too long ago subsumed by Sony. He can be liable for managing RDF’s London hub, whereas Jo Scarratt-Jones continues to supervise Bristol and Wales and Kitty Walshe manages each together with Banijay stablemate Outstanding Factual. Chambers created Channel 4 hit format First Dates throughout a stint as Artistic Director of Twenty Twenty. Walshe stated the indie is “on a mission to provide the subsequent technology of massive, purposeful fact-ent reveals that RDF is so well-known for.”

Virgin Media & AMC Drama ‘The Vanishing Triangle’ Re-emerges With Pre-Purchase Offers

Irish drama The Vanishing Triangle is piling up pre-sales earlier than Mipcom subsequent week. The present, which Deadline first revealed information of in September, has gone to Acorn TV within the UK and a number of other different territories. SBS has picked up Australian rights, with SVT (Sweden), DR (Denmark), NRK (Norway) and YLE (Finland) and VRT (Belgium) additionally pre-buying from distributor Eccho Rights. The collection is for Eire’s Virgin Media and AMC Networks’ Sundance Now in the united statesand stars Allen Leech and India Mullen. It’s loosely primarily based on true occasions that shook Eire within the Nineties when a number of girls disappeared with no hint. 

AMC Networks Ups Mark Dee-Shapland Forward Of Mipcom

AMC Networks has promoted Mark Dee-Shapland to Vice President of International Content material Gross sales on the eve of Mipcom. Beforehand Head of Worldwide Content material Gross sales, he’ll now oversee the worldwide gross sales group and handle gross sales in territories together with the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, and Italy. Dee-Shapland, who joined the corporate in 2016, will proceed to report back to Mike Pears, Government Vice President of Distribution and Content material Gross sales. AMCN’s expanded content material gross sales group has new administrators of content material gross sales: Lucas Verga, who oversees gross sales within the Center East, Europe and Africa; and Todd Bartoo, who covers Latin America, Asia and Oceania.

Sky, NBCU & Others Swoop For ‘Reginald The Vampire’

Cineflix Rights has introduced a raft of worldwide gross sales for the primary season of Reginald the Vampire, which debuts within the US on SYFY this October. The collection has been picked up by Sky for the UK, and Eire, NBCUniversal Worldwide Networks & Direct-To-Shopper for its science fiction channels SYFY in France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Switzerland; and SCIFI in Poland and the Balkans, and AMC Networks Worldwide for Latin America. The present stars Jacob Batalon (Spider-Man: No Manner House) as an unlikely hero who crashes headlong right into a world populated by lovely, match, and useless vampires whereas navigating quite a few obstacles in his new undead life: the woman he loves however can’t be with, a bullying supervisor at work, and the vampire chieftain who desires him lifeless. The present is produced by Nice Pacific Media, Trendy Story, December Movies, and Cineflix Studios for SYFY within the US. The collection showrunner is Harley Peyton (Twin Peaks). “We’ve had a variety of curiosity from patrons in Reginald the Vampire since its launch at MIPTV, so I’m actually happy to announce these first worldwide gross sales prematurely of its launch on SYFY,” stated James Durie, Head of Scripted, Cineflix Rights.