Harlequin romance novels are getting a new lease of life in audio form.
The company has struck a deal with podcast company Audio Up, which is behind Stephen King’s Strawberry Spring, to adapt a number of its books into audio series.
Harlequin is the company responsible for the books behind series such as Sweet Magnolias and Virgin River. The plan is to turn 52 books into podcasts.
First up is Montana Mavericks, a scripted dramatic podcast based on In Search of the Long-Lost Maverick, written by Christine Rimmer.
The series is set in Bronco Heights with its small-town charm and Western allure, where Melanie Driscoll, seeking a fresh start, returns home from the big city into the waiting arms of Gabe Abernathy, a rugged cowboy from the town’s most powerful family with secrets of his own.
It will also have an original soundtrack from a number of rising stars...
The company has struck a deal with podcast company Audio Up, which is behind Stephen King’s Strawberry Spring, to adapt a number of its books into audio series.
Harlequin is the company responsible for the books behind series such as Sweet Magnolias and Virgin River. The plan is to turn 52 books into podcasts.
First up is Montana Mavericks, a scripted dramatic podcast based on In Search of the Long-Lost Maverick, written by Christine Rimmer.
The series is set in Bronco Heights with its small-town charm and Western allure, where Melanie Driscoll, seeking a fresh start, returns home from the big city into the waiting arms of Gabe Abernathy, a rugged cowboy from the town’s most powerful family with secrets of his own.
It will also have an original soundtrack from a number of rising stars...
- 10/13/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Award-winning filmmaker Valerie Buhagiar has commenced principal photography on “The Dogs,” an adaptation of Allan Stratton’s bestselling novel.
“The Dogs” revolves around a 13-year-old boy named Cameron and his mother, who have spent years escaping Cameron’s mentally ill father. Although sometimes, Cameron suspects his mother may have kidnapped him. Eventually the pair settle into a dilapidated farmhouse near Wolf Hollow, a property whose previous owner, Frank McTavish, was killed by his guard dogs after his wife ran off with their son, Jacky, and her lover.
The film is currently shooting in Northern Ontario. It is produced by Wild Media Entertainment in association with 2ofaMind Productions and funded in part by the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund. Producers include James Milligan, Anthony Artibello, Sheila Rogerson and Jason Jallet. Paul Flint, Kevin C. Bjerkness, Perry Dellelce and Brad Pelman serve as executive producers.
The cast includes Donovan Colan (“Spirit Halloween”), Kathleen Munroe...
“The Dogs” revolves around a 13-year-old boy named Cameron and his mother, who have spent years escaping Cameron’s mentally ill father. Although sometimes, Cameron suspects his mother may have kidnapped him. Eventually the pair settle into a dilapidated farmhouse near Wolf Hollow, a property whose previous owner, Frank McTavish, was killed by his guard dogs after his wife ran off with their son, Jacky, and her lover.
The film is currently shooting in Northern Ontario. It is produced by Wild Media Entertainment in association with 2ofaMind Productions and funded in part by the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund. Producers include James Milligan, Anthony Artibello, Sheila Rogerson and Jason Jallet. Paul Flint, Kevin C. Bjerkness, Perry Dellelce and Brad Pelman serve as executive producers.
The cast includes Donovan Colan (“Spirit Halloween”), Kathleen Munroe...
- 10/28/2022
- by Amber Dowling
- Variety Film + TV
Reza Aslan’s series Rough Draft with Reza Aslan has landed at Topic, which will make the interview show the first original series for its upcoming streaming service. The eight-episode series will begin shooting next month and is set to debut later this fall.
The show will be a refreshed, new version of Rough Draft that bowed on Ovation in 2016, Topic said. The series featured conversations with contemporary novelists, screenwriters, journalists and songwriters about their creative process in front of an audience. The new iteration will be set at a bar in Los Angeles.
Topic Gm Ryan Chanatry said Tuesday that the series “demonstrates the type of programming Topic will offer audiences — smart, intriguing, and inviting, created especially for culturally engaged content enthusiasts.”
Rough Draft is executive produced by Topic, Reza Aslan for BoomGen Studios, Philip Alberstat for Ntology, David Andreone for Andreone Arts, Jesse Rogg for Mack Sennett Studios,...
The show will be a refreshed, new version of Rough Draft that bowed on Ovation in 2016, Topic said. The series featured conversations with contemporary novelists, screenwriters, journalists and songwriters about their creative process in front of an audience. The new iteration will be set at a bar in Los Angeles.
Topic Gm Ryan Chanatry said Tuesday that the series “demonstrates the type of programming Topic will offer audiences — smart, intriguing, and inviting, created especially for culturally engaged content enthusiasts.”
Rough Draft is executive produced by Topic, Reza Aslan for BoomGen Studios, Philip Alberstat for Ntology, David Andreone for Andreone Arts, Jesse Rogg for Mack Sennett Studios,...
- 8/6/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Lionsgate plans to sell Maple Pictures, a Canadian distributor, to Alliance Films, for $38.5 million, TheWrap has confirmed. The company will issue a statement about the pending sale as soon as Tuesday, an individual familiar with transaction told TheWrap. In a February conference call with analysts, Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer said he planned to monetize non-core assets. The sale is part of that initiative. Maple's co-presidents, Laurie May and Brad Pelman and other senior executives will move to Alliance, the individual familiar with the transaction said. Maple, which primarily distributes movies, TV programs and...
- 6/21/2011
- by Joshua L. Weinstein
- The Wrap
Exclusive: I hear the deal was signed on Friday. So any moment now there'll be an announcement that Canada's Alliance Films President Charles Layton has finalized the purchase of his competitor Maple Pictures, which is primarily owned by Lionsgate. "But when you have Charles Layton involved in a deal, anything can happen!" a source tells me about the Alliance chief who's been in the final due diligence stage. The deal has caused quite a lot of consternation up north because it will change the landscape of film distribution there -- and for the worse, not the better. Also a bloodbath is expected: predictions are for the entire Maple staff of 30 to 40 employees to be let go with the exception of the two co-CEOs Laurie May and Brad Pelman, both former Lionsgate execs. Moving forward, Lionsgate’s films will be distributed by Alliance in Canada. This is part of Lionsgate’s...
- 6/20/2011
- by NIKKI FINKE
- Deadline Hollywood
TORONTO -- Canadian movie distributor Maple Pictures said Monday that it has picked up the domestic rights to Martin Gero's feature film debut "Young People Fucking", and plans a June 13 theatrical release on 25-30 screens.
The romantic comedy, which has benefited from the current debate over proposed tax credit changes that would deny funding to "offensive" material, was initially to be released April 18 by Montreal-based distributor Christal Films.
But Brad Pelman, co-president of Toronto-based Maple Pictures, said that Steven Hoban, a producer on the film, exercised an option to take the film back from Christal and to sell its distribution rights to Maple Pictures.
Toronto-based ThinkFilm holds the U.S. rights to Gero's feature film about four couples and one threesome that, despite an absence of onscreen sex, has garnered widespread press attention for its graphic title.
Ottawa's ruling Conservative party introduced Bill C-10 to deny taxpayer subsidies for offensive homegrown movies after Prime Minister Stephen Harper reportedly objected to public subsidies being used to produce and launch Gero's debut theatrical film at the 2007 Toronto film fest.
The romantic comedy, which has benefited from the current debate over proposed tax credit changes that would deny funding to "offensive" material, was initially to be released April 18 by Montreal-based distributor Christal Films.
But Brad Pelman, co-president of Toronto-based Maple Pictures, said that Steven Hoban, a producer on the film, exercised an option to take the film back from Christal and to sell its distribution rights to Maple Pictures.
Toronto-based ThinkFilm holds the U.S. rights to Gero's feature film about four couples and one threesome that, despite an absence of onscreen sex, has garnered widespread press attention for its graphic title.
Ottawa's ruling Conservative party introduced Bill C-10 to deny taxpayer subsidies for offensive homegrown movies after Prime Minister Stephen Harper reportedly objected to public subsidies being used to produce and launch Gero's debut theatrical film at the 2007 Toronto film fest.
- 3/24/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TORONTO -- Canadian independent distributor Maple Pictures has inked a multiyear output deal with Gold Circle Films.
The agreement, announced Friday, gives Toronto-based Maple access to Gold Circle's movie slate for the Canadian market, beginning with the Renee Zellweger-Harry Connick Jr. starrer "Chilled in Miami" and "The New Daughter", starring Kevin Costner and "Pan's Labyrinth" star Ivana Baquero.
Maple Pictures already has output deals with Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions.
The distribution pact was unveiled by Maple Pictures co-presidents Laurie May and Brad Pelman and Gold Circle Films partners Paul Brooks and Scott Niemeyer.
The agreement, announced Friday, gives Toronto-based Maple access to Gold Circle's movie slate for the Canadian market, beginning with the Renee Zellweger-Harry Connick Jr. starrer "Chilled in Miami" and "The New Daughter", starring Kevin Costner and "Pan's Labyrinth" star Ivana Baquero.
Maple Pictures already has output deals with Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions.
The distribution pact was unveiled by Maple Pictures co-presidents Laurie May and Brad Pelman and Gold Circle Films partners Paul Brooks and Scott Niemeyer.
- 11/3/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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