The Banff World Media Festival has added CBS Entertainment president Amy Reisenbach to its ‘In Conversation With’ session lineup ahead of its 45th edition in June.
On Thursday, the Canadian Rockies festival also announced as additional speakers Lisa Kramer, president, international TV licensing at Paramount Global Content Distribution; Asif Sadiq, chief global diversity, equity and inclusion officer at Warner Bros. Discovery; and Cori Wellins, William Morris Endeavor partner, for the June 9 to 12 gathering in Banff, Alberta.
Also joining the Banff lineup is Gold House CEO Bing Chen and Sandra Dewey, COO of Media Res as festival headliners during a conference expected to focus this year on international financing and co-productions for global TV content.
Banff earlier announced that Channing Dungey, Warner Bros. Television Group chairman and CEO, and Rob Wade, CEO of Fox Entertainment keynote speakers this year. Their appearance in Banff comes as Hollywood’s studios and streamers emerge...
On Thursday, the Canadian Rockies festival also announced as additional speakers Lisa Kramer, president, international TV licensing at Paramount Global Content Distribution; Asif Sadiq, chief global diversity, equity and inclusion officer at Warner Bros. Discovery; and Cori Wellins, William Morris Endeavor partner, for the June 9 to 12 gathering in Banff, Alberta.
Also joining the Banff lineup is Gold House CEO Bing Chen and Sandra Dewey, COO of Media Res as festival headliners during a conference expected to focus this year on international financing and co-productions for global TV content.
Banff earlier announced that Channing Dungey, Warner Bros. Television Group chairman and CEO, and Rob Wade, CEO of Fox Entertainment keynote speakers this year. Their appearance in Banff comes as Hollywood’s studios and streamers emerge...
- 4/18/2024
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Banff World Media Festival has added more names to its lineup.
The event, which runs June 9 – 12 at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Banff, Alberta, Canada, has added executives including CBS Entertainment President Amy Reisenbach.
Reisenbach will sit down for an In Conversation With session to speak about the network’s 2024/25 programming strategy.
Elsewhere, Bing Chen, CEO & Co-Founder, Gold House, Sandra Dewey, COO, Media Res, Lisa Kramer, President, International TV Licensing, Paramount Global Content Distribution, Asif Sadiq, Chief Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer, Warner Bros. Discovery and Cori Wellins, Partner, William Morris Endeavor.
They join the likes of Fox CEO Rob Wade, Warner Bros. TV boss Channing Dungey, Lionsgate’s Television Chair and Chief Creative Officer Kevin Beggs, Universal Television Alternative Studio President Toby Gorman, Universal International Studios and UCP President Beatrice Springborn and Universal Television President Erin Underhill at the event.
“We’re thrilled to welcome these...
The event, which runs June 9 – 12 at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Banff, Alberta, Canada, has added executives including CBS Entertainment President Amy Reisenbach.
Reisenbach will sit down for an In Conversation With session to speak about the network’s 2024/25 programming strategy.
Elsewhere, Bing Chen, CEO & Co-Founder, Gold House, Sandra Dewey, COO, Media Res, Lisa Kramer, President, International TV Licensing, Paramount Global Content Distribution, Asif Sadiq, Chief Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer, Warner Bros. Discovery and Cori Wellins, Partner, William Morris Endeavor.
They join the likes of Fox CEO Rob Wade, Warner Bros. TV boss Channing Dungey, Lionsgate’s Television Chair and Chief Creative Officer Kevin Beggs, Universal Television Alternative Studio President Toby Gorman, Universal International Studios and UCP President Beatrice Springborn and Universal Television President Erin Underhill at the event.
“We’re thrilled to welcome these...
- 4/18/2024
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Lindsay Aubin, Andrew Mathes, Dani Potter, and Andrew Wang have been promoted to partner in WME’s TV Scripted department, Variety has learned exclusively.
Mathes started at WME in 2009, rising to the rank of coordinator in 2012 and then agent in 2013. His clients include Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, Carlton Cuse, John Legend, John Krasinski, Idris Elba, David Ayer, and Adam McKay’s HyperObject. He also led efforts to adapt podcasts into TV series, selling projects like “Limetown” to Facebook Watch, “Dirty John” at Bravo, and the upcoming “Gaslit” at Starz.
Aubin started at WME in 2010, at first working as an assistant for people like Ari Emanuel, Ari Greenburg and Marc Korman. Her client list is made up of showrunners like Kelly Marcel and Jane Goldman, filmmakers like Damien Chazelle and John Carney, and first-time series creators Nida Manzoor, Justin Noble, and Francesca Sloane.
Wang began his Hollywood career at Paradigm,...
Mathes started at WME in 2009, rising to the rank of coordinator in 2012 and then agent in 2013. His clients include Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, Carlton Cuse, John Legend, John Krasinski, Idris Elba, David Ayer, and Adam McKay’s HyperObject. He also led efforts to adapt podcasts into TV series, selling projects like “Limetown” to Facebook Watch, “Dirty John” at Bravo, and the upcoming “Gaslit” at Starz.
Aubin started at WME in 2010, at first working as an assistant for people like Ari Emanuel, Ari Greenburg and Marc Korman. Her client list is made up of showrunners like Kelly Marcel and Jane Goldman, filmmakers like Damien Chazelle and John Carney, and first-time series creators Nida Manzoor, Justin Noble, and Francesca Sloane.
Wang began his Hollywood career at Paradigm,...
- 1/24/2022
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
In 2017, in the wake of the #MeToo movement’s rise, WME partner Cori Wellins attended a couple of the industry reckoning meetings held at CAA. They were a good start, she felt, but the action-oriented agent felt the need for more practical direction to help make the industry a welcome space for women. “I walked out of those meetings like, ‘That’s great, but I feel like I don’t have a task,’ ” says Wellins.
Over the next weeks, an idea formed: What if she did something to help a rising generation of female executives ...
Over the next weeks, an idea formed: What if she did something to help a rising generation of female executives ...
- 5/18/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
In 2017, in the wake of the #MeToo movement’s rise, WME partner Cori Wellins attended a couple of the industry reckoning meetings held at CAA. They were a good start, she felt, but the action-oriented agent felt the need for more practical direction to help make the industry a welcome space for women. “I walked out of those meetings like, ‘That’s great, but I feel like I don’t have a task,’ ” says Wellins.
Over the next weeks, an idea formed: What if she did something to help a rising generation of female executives ...
Over the next weeks, an idea formed: What if she did something to help a rising generation of female executives ...
- 5/18/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Endeavor Impact will host international programming for all employees throughout March and launch a global social media campaign today in support of International Women’s Day on Sunday, March 8. As part of the campaign, Endeavor will donate $5 to support Unicef’s women and girls’ education programs for every employee post shared.
In Los Angeles, Endeavor Impact is hosting a Women in Entertainment Panel with female agents and executives at Endeavor slated to discuss leadership and reflect on their respective successes. Panelists include Wme agents Ashley Holland, Wme partners Elyse Scherz and Cori Wellins, Endeavor Content Partner Christine D’Souza Gelb, and Wme Literary Packaging co-head Sylvie Rabineau, moderated by Endeavor’s head of social impact, Romola Ratnam.
At a financial equality-focused ‘Lunch + Learn,’ Tracy Gray, founder of the non-profit We Are Enough will share the importance of investing in businesses owned and led by women. We Are Enough aims to...
In Los Angeles, Endeavor Impact is hosting a Women in Entertainment Panel with female agents and executives at Endeavor slated to discuss leadership and reflect on their respective successes. Panelists include Wme agents Ashley Holland, Wme partners Elyse Scherz and Cori Wellins, Endeavor Content Partner Christine D’Souza Gelb, and Wme Literary Packaging co-head Sylvie Rabineau, moderated by Endeavor’s head of social impact, Romola Ratnam.
At a financial equality-focused ‘Lunch + Learn,’ Tracy Gray, founder of the non-profit We Are Enough will share the importance of investing in businesses owned and led by women. We Are Enough aims to...
- 3/6/2020
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline Film + TV
The eighth annual Atx Television Festival has booked Showtime’s upcoming drama “City on a Hill” for its closing night event, as well as a panel about the “power of female partnerships,” Variety has learned exclusively.
The premium cabler will screen the premiere episode of “City on a Hill” and present a Q&A panel featuring cast members and executive producers June 8, 2019 in Austin, Texas. While the show stars Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, Jonathan Tucker, Mark O’Brien, Jill Hennessy, Lauren E. Banks, Amanda Clayton, Kevin Chapman and Jere Shea, with Kevin Dnun and Sarah Shahi recurring, and is executive produced by Chuck MacLean, Tom Fontana and Jennifer Todd, specific panelists will be announced at a later date. The show is set in early 1990s Boston, when criminals were emboldened by local law enforcement agencies in which “corruption and racism were the norm.”
The “power of female partnerships” panel will...
The premium cabler will screen the premiere episode of “City on a Hill” and present a Q&A panel featuring cast members and executive producers June 8, 2019 in Austin, Texas. While the show stars Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, Jonathan Tucker, Mark O’Brien, Jill Hennessy, Lauren E. Banks, Amanda Clayton, Kevin Chapman and Jere Shea, with Kevin Dnun and Sarah Shahi recurring, and is executive produced by Chuck MacLean, Tom Fontana and Jennifer Todd, specific panelists will be announced at a later date. The show is set in early 1990s Boston, when criminals were emboldened by local law enforcement agencies in which “corruption and racism were the norm.”
The “power of female partnerships” panel will...
- 2/27/2019
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
Cori Wellins starred in Arachnophobia and appeared on an episode of CHiPs as a kid, but after interning for her own agent during her senior year at UCLA, she shifted her focus from performing to representing talent (including Glow showrunner Liz Flahive and Master of None co-creator Alan Yang). "It's just a tough trade," says the Wme partner of her childhood career. "I met with my first agent when I was 10 — I remember him telling me that I was fat, I had thin hair, I had a high forehead, that I was never going to make ...
Cori Wellins starred in Arachnophobia and appeared on an episode of CHiPs as a kid, but after interning for her own agent during her senior year at UCLA, she shifted her focus from performing to representing talent (including Glow showrunner Liz Flahive and Master of None co-creator Alan Yang). "It's just a tough trade," says the Wme partner of her childhood career. "I met with my first agent when I was 10 — I remember him telling me that I was fat, I had thin hair, I had a high forehead, that I was never going to make ...
Suzanne Patmore Gibbs, a widely respected TV development executive who shepherded “Grey’s Anatomy” during her time at ABC and most recently headed Sony Pictures TV’s TriStar TV banner, died Thursday after complications from minor surgery. She was 50.
Patmore Gibbs died early Thursday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
“All of us at Sony Pictures Television were touched by Suzanne’s passion and friendship. She was a wonderful colleague and friend to all who worked with her,” Sony TV chiefs Jeff Frost, Chris Parnell and Jason Clodfelter said in a memo to Sony staffers. “She will be greatly missed and our thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends during this difficult time.”
Patmore Gibbs had not been known to be facing health problems. Frost, Parnell and Clodfelter said in the memo that the news of her death was “a shock to all of us and we are heartbroken.”
Patmore...
Patmore Gibbs died early Thursday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
“All of us at Sony Pictures Television were touched by Suzanne’s passion and friendship. She was a wonderful colleague and friend to all who worked with her,” Sony TV chiefs Jeff Frost, Chris Parnell and Jason Clodfelter said in a memo to Sony staffers. “She will be greatly missed and our thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends during this difficult time.”
Patmore Gibbs had not been known to be facing health problems. Frost, Parnell and Clodfelter said in the memo that the news of her death was “a shock to all of us and we are heartbroken.”
Patmore...
- 3/29/2018
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
This year’s Blood List has named the 13 best genre scripts around town, and in its sixth year the annual screenplay contest is expanding its scope to include hot books, TV pilots, and young scribes ripe for signing. Taking top honors in 2014 is sci-fi thriller Bird Box from The Thing and Final Destination 5 scribe Eric Heisserer, an apocalyptic tale of a woman trying to lead her children to safety – all three blindfolded – after monsters descend on earth that turn people insane on sight. Universal set Heisserer to adapt the manuscript from Josh Malerman in 2013 for Mama helmer Andy Muschietti. Previous Blood List alumni include Black Swan, Stoker, Warm Bodies, and the upcoming Blumhouse thriller The Boy Next Door.
Like the Black List naming the top unproduced screenplays circulating around Hollywood, the genre-focused Blood List taps exec votes to determine each year’s best unmade horror, sci-fi, and thriller scripts.
Like the Black List naming the top unproduced screenplays circulating around Hollywood, the genre-focused Blood List taps exec votes to determine each year’s best unmade horror, sci-fi, and thriller scripts.
- 10/31/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
The wildly successful director/producer/writer who of course helmed the first two Harry Potters (Sorcerers Stone & Chamber Of Secrets) and produced the entire film series of Jk Rowling's novels just gave his notice today to CAA and immediately signed with Wme Entertainment. He'll be represented by Ari Emanuel, Patrick Whitesell, Jason Spitz, Cori Wellins, and Anna Deroy. Columbus has been responsible for such comedy classics as Mrs. Doubtfire, Home Alone 1 & 2, Gremlins, Goonies, Nine Months, etc. He's currently working on The Help.
- 11/4/2010
- by NIKKI FINKE
- Deadline Hollywood
William Morris' top scripted TV agent, Aaron Kaplan, is leaving to launch a management and production company.
Kaplan, an 18-year Wma veteran, rose to worldwide head of scripted television and packaging after joining the agency's mailroom in 1991.
His exit comes as Wma and Endeavor are going through the regulatory process to finalize their merger into Wme Entertainment.
Kaplan's departure is said to be amicable. The agent, in the midst of an ongoing contract at Wma, had been asked to stay on in the new entity, but after weighing his options, he made the decision Saturday to leave and start a new company.
Details on Kaplan's new company are being worked out, but it is envisioned as a provider of wide range of content.
Kaplan is expected to stay on at Wma to help with transitioning his clients, who include Barry Sonnenfeld, Carlton Cuse, Darren Star and Jenji Kohan.
It is...
Kaplan, an 18-year Wma veteran, rose to worldwide head of scripted television and packaging after joining the agency's mailroom in 1991.
His exit comes as Wma and Endeavor are going through the regulatory process to finalize their merger into Wme Entertainment.
Kaplan's departure is said to be amicable. The agent, in the midst of an ongoing contract at Wma, had been asked to stay on in the new entity, but after weighing his options, he made the decision Saturday to leave and start a new company.
Details on Kaplan's new company are being worked out, but it is envisioned as a provider of wide range of content.
Kaplan is expected to stay on at Wma to help with transitioning his clients, who include Barry Sonnenfeld, Carlton Cuse, Darren Star and Jenji Kohan.
It is...
- 5/17/2009
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Completing the restructuring of its television literary department, WMA has named Cori Wellins head of the department, while Lanny Noveck has been appointed to the newly created position of head of scripted television packaging. Wellins and Noveck will report to Aaron Kaplan, worldwide head of scripted television and packaging. Additionally, UTA agent Elana Barry has joined WMA's TV literary department. Wellins, most recently a vp and literary and packaging agent, will oversee the agency's roster of TV writers, producers and directors.
- 11/15/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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