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Benedict Carver Tapped For Entertainment One Senior Vice President Post

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday September 7, 2011 @ 4:50am PDTTags: David Hayter, Entertainment One, eOne
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Benedict Carver has been hired as SVP Filmed Entertainment at Entertainment One. He will be responsible for ramping up eOne’s output of film and TV product. Carver reports to eOne Television dramatic programming president Noreen Halpern and Lara Thompson, eOne’s SVP Worldwide Acquisitions.

Carver, a former colleague of mine back at Daily Variety, left journalism to become Screen Gems’ SVP of acquisitions and co-productions. There, he was involved in putting together successes that included the Resident Evil, Underworld and Hostel franchises, as well as bringing in highbrow films that included Girlfight, El Crimen del Padre and The Squid and the Whale. Carver spent the past few years partnered with X-Men screenwriter David Hayter in Dark Hero Studios. They made a first-look TV deal with eOne in March 2010, and Carver became more involved with that company and decided to jump back into the executive ranks. He and Hayter continue to work on numerous projects together that include the TV series Push and the Anne McCaffrey feature adaptation Dragonriders of Pern, which has Hayter attached to write. EOne has Canadian rights to Hayter’s directorial debut Wolves, a thriller that will shoot later this year with funding from TF1. Steve Hoban is producing that feature and Carver is executive producer. Carver’s other producing credits include Doomsday and Tekken.

“I’ve known Benedict since his days at Screen Gems and I have always been impressed by the combination of creative skills and business acumen that he brings to every project,” said eOne Filmed Entertainment president Patrice Theroux.

Carver, who starts the job immediately, said, “This is a fantastic opportunity for me to do what I love doing best, putting together films and TV shows, backed by a rapidly growing but very user-friendly entertainment organization. It has been an amazing run with David, and I look forward to continuing to collaborate with him on the many projects that we have together.”

 

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Showtime Developing Drama Series Based On Comic Book ‘The Damned’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday August 24, 2011 @ 11:10am PDTTags: CBS Television Studios, David Hayter, Showtime
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Showtime has put in development The Damned, a drama series project based on independent graphic novel and comic book publisher Oni Press’ comic book limited series. It will be written by feature writer David Hayter, who has … Read More »

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Can ‘Cowboys & Aliens’ Lasso Youth?

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 7:30pm PDTTags: Alan Gasmer, Alex Kurtzman, Brian Grazer, Cowboys & Aliens, Damon Lindelof, Daniel Craig, David Hayter, Harrison Ford, Hawk Ostby, Jon Favreau, Joshua Oppenheimer, Mark Fergus, Rob Carlson, Roberto Orci, Ron Howard, Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, Stacey Snider, Steven Spielberg, Thomas Donnelly
Mike Fleming

Studios usually view Comic-Con as a venue to start momentum on projects that won’t be in theaters for up to a year. This Saturday, DreamWorks and Universal will try to turn the rabid youth demographic at Comic-Con into true believers … Read More »

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David Hayter To Adapt Sci-Fi Book Series ‘Dragonriders Of Pern’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday April 12, 2011 @ 4:30pm PDTTags: David Hayter, Don Murphy, Steve Hoban, Susan Montford
Mike Fleming

Dragonriders of Pern, one of the biggest-selling science fiction novel series, is being turned into a live-action feature. David Hayter has been set to write the script for Dragonflight, the first novel in a series that includes 22 novels generated by Anne McCaffrey. Steve Hoban’s Copperheart Entertainment has teamed with Hayter and Benedict Carver’s Dark Hero Studios and Angry Films partners Don Murphy and Susan Montford on the project. Entertainment One is also a partner and has gotten the project off the ground by acquiring distribution in Canada, with talks ongoing to acquire numerous other territories that will include the UK and Australia.

The first book was published in 1968. It focuses on an elite group of warriors who take to the skies on the backs of giant, fire-breathing dragons with telepathic powers, as they to save the exotic planet of Pern from a terrifying airborne menace. Read More »

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