Kylie Munnich Lands Goalpost Footage CEO Function — World Briefs – Deadline

Former Sky Exec Kylie Munnich Named Goalpost Footage CEO

The Invisible Man, 5 Blind Dates and Black Snow producer Goalpost Footage has named movie and TV trade veteran Kylie Munnich as its CEO. The Sydney-based producer will welcome her on November 1. The former Sky Studios and Sonar Leisure exec is leaving a job as head of Display Queensland, a put up she held for 3 years, overseeing the state’s largest ever spike in manufacturing towards the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic. Beforehand, she was a Scripted Gross sales and Co-Manufacturing Government for Seven Studios and Senior Vice President for Distribution, Asia Pacific for Sonar Leisure. Earlier than that, she’d labored within the UK as Director of Drama and Comedy for Sky Imaginative and prescient (now Sky Studios) and labored on in-house scripted commissions for Sky. She additionally held senior roles for Sony Footage Tv. Goalpost is at the moment in in post-production on Stan and Sundance Now’s collection Black Snow, starring Travis Fimmel, and Amazon Unique film 5 Blind Dates for Prime Video Australia, directed by Shawn Seet. Additionally within the works is characteristic movie Carmen, a co-production with France’s Chapter 2, starring Melissa Barrera, Paul Mescal and Rossy de Palma and directed by Benjamin Millepied. It had its World Premiere on the current Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition.

France TV Distribution Baggage ‘Mom Valley’ Forward Of MIA Market

France TV Distribution has acquired worldwide rights to Mom Valley, a characteristic from Lebanese director Carlos Chahine (Azur & Asmar: The Princes’ Quest) starring Nathalie Baye and Pierre Rochefort. The gross sales arm of France Televisions will probably be on the MIA Market in Rome subsequent month promoting the movie, which is about to Lebanon in 1958 as civil struggle rages. It follows younger mom and mannequin spouse Layla, who spends the summer season within the distant Christian mountains. Her youthful sisters haven’t any want to comply with her footsteps and settle for organized marriages, whereas an encounter with a French man opens Layla’s eyes to her situation as a lady residing in a patriarchal society. MIA will probably be held in Rome between 11-15 October.

Cineflix Readies CNN’s ‘Historical past Of The Sitcom’ For Cannes

Cineflix Rights has acquired gross sales rights to CNN and Cream Productions’ collection Historical past of the Sitcom, which will probably be rolled out at Mipcom Cannes. The present reunites audiences with beloved sitcom characters and introduces them to comedies they’re but to find. It options unique interviews with Norman Lear, Tina Fey, Tracy Morgan, Lisa Kudrow, Kelsey Grammer, Tim Allen and Ted Danson amongst many others. Cineflix’s gross sales arm has beforehand bought CNN exhibits similar to The Story of Late Night time and The Historical past of Comedy. “The exhibits featured on this collection have travelled all around the world, giving Historical past of the Sitcom monumental world attraction,” mentioned Cineflix Rights VP of Acquisitions, North America Felicia Litovotz. Mipcom Cannes will probably be held in France from 17-20 October.

BBC Studios Unveils Writers’ Academy Line-up

BBC Studios has unveiled the most recent cohort of aspiring TV scribes for its Writers’ Academy, a paid coaching program led by former veteran British drama exec John Yorke. They’re writer-actor Lauren Redding; British-Bosnian playwright and screenwriter Igor Memic; British-Indian scribe Pavan Patel whose pilot The Empires Jewels was shortlisted for the Bisha Ok Ali Sky x Netflix Screenwriters’ Fellowship; Sky Arts producer-director Daniel Bougourd; Bea Roberts, whose debut play And Then Come the Nightjars is being tailored right into a characteristic movie by way of Finite Footage; Chloe Myerson, who’s creating initiatives with Roughcut TV, Caryn Mandabach Productions and Island Footage, and has two scripts beneath choice at Wall to Wall Tv; British-Nogeria actress, author and producer Joan Iyiola, whose Apatan Productions made BAFTA-nominated brief Dọlápọ̀ is Effective, which Netflix and HBO acquired; and Gary Sewell, a Hollyoaks author who has additionally been a collection producer on the Channel 4 cleaning soap.