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Bravo Crafting Media Boss Drama ‘Moguls’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday December 11, 2012 @ 12:13pm PSTTags: Bravo, Michael Jackson, Moguls

A tale of Big Media is coming to cable. Continuing its recent moves toward original scripted series, Bravo is developing the drama Moguls. The series will follow the professional and personal challenges of a media boss and his family. “Moguls will be similar in tone to The West Wing,” an insider says. While the series may or may not have the walking-and-talking motif that characterized Aaron Sorkin’s political drama, Moguls will have a media boss of its own: Michael Jackson, the former chairman of Universal Television and former CEO of the UK’s Channel 4, will serve as executive producer on the show. Love And Other Drugs screenwriter Charles Randolph and playwright Sharyn Rothstein are working on a pilot script now, we are told. In her TV debut, Rothstein will be Moguls’ supervising producer. Randolph will serve as an executive producer; he also is working on the Cold War pilot for HBO The Missionary, a spy thriller developed by Randolph and friend (and bestselling New Yorker writer) Malcolm Gladwell.

Related: Bravo Orders First Scripted Pilots: Dramas ‘The Jones’ And ‘Rita’

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ABC Acquires Spike Lee’s Michael Jackson Doc ‘Bad 25′ To Air At Thanskgiving

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday August 28, 2012 @ 4:27pm PDTTags: ABC, Bad 25, Big Deals TV, Michael Jackson, Spike Lee, Toronto Film Festival, Venice Film Festival

ABC has acquired TV rights to Spike Lee’s Michael Jackson documentary Bad 25, which marks the 25th anniversary of the groundbreaking album. The network said it would air a version of the documentary at Thanksgiving … Read More »

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Michael Jackson’s Back Catalog Said To Be Among 50,000 Stolen Sony Music Files

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Monday March 5, 2012 @ 5:13am PSTTags: Michael Jackson, Sony Music, Sony Pictures

Nearly a year after Sony Pictures and the PlayStation Network faced targeted hacking attacks, it has emerged that Sony Music had its own breach in the US in 2011. Two British men appeared in a UK court on Friday … Read More »

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UPDATE: TV News Swarms Over Verdict As Conrad Murray Convicted In Death Of Michael Jackson

By RAY RICHMOND | Monday November 7, 2011 @ 1:17pm PSTTags: Media, Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson Death

UPDATE 1:17 PM: The TV news community swarmed over the guilty verdict against Dr. Conrad Murray, convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson in June 2009. CBS/2, NBC/4, KTLA/5, ABC/7, KCAL/9, Fox/11, CNN, HLN, MSNBC, Fox News and truTV all covered the verdict live from the Los Angeles Criminal Court in Downtown L.A. Murray had no visible reaction to the news, while cameras showed celebration among the sign-wielding crowd gathered outside the court. In the wake of the verdict, those hoping for conviction were interviewed all over the local news dial, while on cable news pundits and legal experts held court with opinion and reaction. The exceptions were Fox News, which quickly went back to its scheduled news rotation, and KCOP/13 locally, which opted to stick with its Bewitched rerun. Murray was handcuffed in court; his sentencing date is November 29.

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Michael Jackson Roundup: Judge Agrees With Sony On ‘This Is It’ Footage; Tribute Concert In Works

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday July 25, 2011 @ 1:41pm PDTTags: Michael Jackson, Sony Pictures

Sony Pictures attorneys had argued that jurors in Michael Jackson’s manslaughter case should not see unreleased footage from the studio’s Jackson documentary This Is It in order to determine the state of the singer’s health before his death in June … Read More »

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CAA Signs Director Mark Romanek

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday January 18, 2011 @ 5:39pm PSTTags: Andrew Garfield, CAA, Carey Mulligan, David Bowie, Keira Knightley, Mark Romanek, Michael Jackson, Never Let Me Go, WME
Mike Fleming

Feature and video director Mark Romanek has signed with CAA. Romanek, who just directed the Fox Searchlight adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go with Andrew Garfield, Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley, had been repped by WME. Romanek previously … Read More »

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Michael Jackson Song ‘Thriller’ In Center Of Pic Auction

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday October 26, 2010 @ 3:00pm PDTTags: GK Films, Jeremy Garelick, Michael Jackson, Movie Deals, Movies, Thriller
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Jackson, who reportedly earned $275 million posthumously over the past year for his estate, isn’t slowing down anytime soon. I’m told that GK Films is in active negotiations to acquire a package for a film that is being fashioned around his groundbreaking hit song Thriller. The film, which has been quietly shopped over the past several weeks by Real Effects Entertainment, has Kenny Ortega attached to direct, and The Hangover scribe Jeremy Garelick to write the screenplay. While GK is in the driver’s seat, I’m told that Fox 2000, Mandate/Lionsgate and Summit Entertainment are all in the mix on what will shape up as a pricey rights deal, but which will turn out to be a film budgeted at under $50 million. Plot is being kept under wraps but I understand it has to do with the song’s folklore, involving Vincent Price and the town he grew up in. All of this deal making is subject to a deal being completed with Jackson’s estate, but that has been in the works for some time and is expected to be sealed. Thriller songwriter Rod Temperton is also in the mix. On top of the Thriller deal, I’ve heard that Cirque du Soleil is in talks to do two live shows based on Jackson’s music, and that Montecito partners Ivan Reitman and Tom Pollock are looking to do a feature about Jackson’s younger years. Read More »

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