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USA Network is Digging the Ladies with New Shows

It’s ladies’ year at USA Network. The top basic cable network has handed out its second series order to a female-centered drama this year, “Facing Kate.” “Kate,” toplined by Sarah Shahi, has been picked up for 11 episodes in addition to its 90-minute pilot and is being co-produced by Universal Cable Prods. and Universal Networks [...]

UMS Locks Up Rising Star Schulner for Two Years

Universal Media Studios is betting on David Schulner, cutting a two-year overall deal with the scribe. Schulner has spent the past season as a co-exec producer on the NBC/UMS actioner “Trauma,” which is not expected to return for a soph sesh in the fall. Schulner grabbed the biz’s attention in 2007 when a drama pilot [...]

Pair of Film Print-Checking Companies Merge

Market Force Information, a customer intelligence solutions company, has joined forces with print-checking firm Ted Costas Group to form the company’s theater and production division. Merger marks the second acquisition in the last two years for Market Force, which bought Certified Reports Inc., a theater-checking services company, in early 2008. Market Force CMO and senior [...]

Clear Scope Brings In New Director

Entertainment investment advisory Clear Scope Partners has appointed former Sony finance exec Rob Amir as a director of the Century City, California, firm. Amir will report to Clear Scope managing partner Clark Hallren. Prior to joining Sony five years ago, Amir was a real estate investment-banking specialist with JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America. Investment [...]

Disney Makes Plans to Shutter Zemeckis’ FX Shop

ImageMovers Digital, Robert Zemeckis’s Marin County animation shop that made last year’s “A Christmas Carol” is to be shuttered in a matter of months, Walt Disney Studios prexy Alan Bergman announced Friday. Disney’s announcement said the studio hopes to strike a new long-term deal with Zemeckis and his producing partners, Jack Rapke and Steve Starkey, [...]

Disney Makes Plans to Shutter Zemeckis’ FX Shop

ImageMovers Digital, Robert Zemeckis’s Marin County animation shop that made last year’s “A Christmas Carol” is to be shuttered in a matter of months, Walt Disney Studios prexy Alan Bergman announced Friday. Disney’s announcement said the studio hopes to strike a new long-term deal with Zemeckis and his producing partners, Jack Rapke and Steve Starkey, [...]

Acting Unions Agree to Keep Talking

Leaders of the Screen Actors Guild have agreed to resume their negotiating partnership with the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists for upcoming bargaining with companies on the feature-primetime contract. SAG’s national board gave approval Saturday morning with 78% in favor during a videoconference meeting. The move came two weeks after AFTRA’s national board [...]