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UPDATE: Number Of Titles Leaving Netflix Today Close To 1K

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday May 1, 2013 @ 3:10pm PDTTags: Jenji Kohan, Netflix, Orange Is The New Black, Reed Hastings

UPDATE, 3:10 PM: Clarifying statements from the involved parties have been flooding in since last night’s news about Netflix losing hundreds of movies from its streaming service beginning today. Reports originally said the vacating titles were from Warner Bros, but it turns out the majority were “older features that were aggregated by Epix,” a Netflix spokesman said this afternoon. Epix’s two-year exclusive deal with the streaming service expired in September; content from Epix — owned by Paramount, Lionsgate and MGM — also streams on Amazon Prime Instant Video. A source tells Deadline that that the number of expiring titles is closer to 1,000, rather than the 2,000 figure floating around online. “This ebb and flow happens all the time”, Netflix said. The company also said it is adding 500 more titles starting today, including Mission: Impossible 2. READ MORE »

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Netflix Sets July Premiere Date For Jenji Kohan’s ‘Orange Is The New Black’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday April 30, 2013 @ 5:00am PDTTags: Jenji Kohan, Netflix, Orange Is The New Black
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Netflix‘s latest original series, the comedic drama Orange Is The New Black, will launch on July 11. Like it has done with all of its original series, Netflix will make all 13 episodes of Orange Is The New Black, created/exec produced by Jenji Kohan based on the memoir by Piper Kerman, available at launch. Netflix has been staggering the release of its original series: House Of Cards (February), Hemlock Grove (April) and the upcoming Arrested Development (May) and Orange (July). Produced by Lionsgate TV, Orange Is The New Black follows engaged Brooklynite Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), whose decade-old relationship with drug-runner Alex (Laura Prepon) results in her arrest and year-long detention in a federal penitentiary. Read More »

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Taryn Manning To Recur On ‘Orange Is The New Black’, Rich Kohnke On ‘Carrie Diaries’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday November 27, 2012 @ 12:01pm PSTTags: Orange Is The New Black, Taryn Manning, The Carrie Diaries
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Taryn Manning (Hawaii Five-0) has been cast in a major 9-episode arc on Orange Is The New Black, Netflix’s new 13-episode hourlong series from Weeds creator Jenji Kohan. It centers on Piper (Taylor Schilling), an engaged Brooklynite whose decade-old relationship with a drug-runner (Laura Prepon) in college results in her arrest and multi-year detention in a federal penitentiary. Manning will play inmate Tiffany Doggett, a wild child from Waynesboro, Virginia. Better known as “Pennsatucky” for her Appalachian way of speaking, she’s a born-again Evangelical with underlying anger issues who doesn’t mix well with others. Manning, repped by APA and manager Oren Segal, also recurred on FX’s Sons Of Anarchy. Read More »

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Taylor Schilling To Star In Jenji Kohan’s Netflix Series ‘Orange Is The New Black’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday August 30, 2012 @ 11:43am PDTTags: Orange Is The New Black
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EXCLUSIVE: Mercy star Taylor Schilling is returning to television as the lead in Orange Is The New Black, Netflix’s new 13-episode hourlong series from Weeds creator Jenji Kohan. Schilling has been in demand after her starring role … Read More »

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Lionsgate’s Michael Burns Won’t Discuss Summit But Predicts 2012 Normalcy: UBS Confab

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Wednesday December 7, 2011 @ 8:05am PSTTags: Carl Icahn, Charlie Sheen, Epix, Lionsgate, Lionsgate Hostile Takeover, Lionsgate Tyler Perry, Michael Burns, Michael Burns Carl Icahn, Orange Is The New Black, The Expendables, The Hunger Games, TV Guide Network

Lionsgate SummitLionsgate Vice Chairman Michael Burns had to disappoint analysts who wanted him to open up about the big question of the day for his company: What’s going on with its reported merger talks with Summit Entertainment? “I’m not going to talk about any specific deal,” he said at the  UBS Annual Global Media and Communications Conference. He noted, though, that a consolidation of independent film and TV companies is “a natural thing to happen.” He assured the group that Lionsgate is only interested in deals that add to its value, and don’t require it to either issue stock or take on additional debt. “We’re looking to delever, not lever up,” he says.

With that out of the way, he spoke candidly about the company’s plans for next year where he says “you’ll see us steady state for the first time” cranking out about a dozen movies and about three new TV shows. He’s encouraged about a plan to develop a TV series for ABC based on The Lincoln Lawyer – and Charlie Sheen’s Anger Management. ”I’ve known Charlie a long, long time,” Burns said. “Our goal is to keep Charlie working, keep him healthy — and we have a great partner in FX.” Burns says that a series it’s developing for Read More »

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Netflix, Lionsgate TV Closing Deal For Jenji Kohan’s ‘Orange Is The New Black’ Comedy

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday November 11, 2011 @ 12:09pm PSTTags: Jenji Kohan, Lionsgate TV, Orange Is The New Black
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: I have learned that after lengthy negotiations, Netflix is finalizing a deal with Lionsgate TV for a 13-episode straight-to-series order to Orange Is The New Black, a comedy from Weeds creator Jenji Kohan. This marks the second original series for Netflix, which earlier this year gave a 26-episode straight-to-series pickup to MRC’s David Fincher/Kevin Spacey drama House Of Cards. Kohan’s project falls under her rich overall deal with Lionsgate TV. Co-created and executive produced by Kohan and House co-executive producer Liz Friedman, it is based on Piper Kerman’s memoir Orange Is The New Black: My Year In a Women’s Prison and revolves around women in prison.  The book chronicles nonprofit communications executive Kerman’s year-long stint at the minimum security correctional facility in Danbury, Conn., stemming from a conviction for her part in a drug smuggling and money-laundering scheme she got tangled up in 10 years earlier as a fresh college graduate. Read More »

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