Author: Michael

BBC Studios’ Los Angeles division has promoted unscripted content chief Ryan O’Dowd to Global Productions president. The promotion will see O’Dowd add oversight of all scripted content production and development activity to his purview, bringing the two divisions under a single leadership structure. Prior to his new role, O’Dowd was named BBC Studios’ Entertainment and Music executive vice president in 2021 and was promoted to unscripted president last year. The new structure will allow the creative and production teams to work more closely together while providing greater leverage within the company’s wider Global Productions network, including its international creative expertise,…

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With “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” hitting $1 billion and “Street Fighter” and “Sonic the Hedgehog 4” among the films on the horizon, we are well into this new era of video games as a potent force at the box office. But Sony/Columbia’s “Resident Evil” is taking a different approach that, if successful, could expand the potential for this form of IP filmmaking. Sony has been riding high at the box office as “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” just became the unadjusted all-time domestic box office record holder with $937 million in the U.S. and Canada, but unlike that Marvel Studios…

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