AMC and Hulu have agreed on a multi-year deal that will allow the latter to exclusively stream the upcoming Fear The Walking Dead and other AMC programs following their TV debuts. Also featured in our latest round-up is a trailer for the Goners Volume 1: We All Fall Down trade paperback, as well as details on Melbourne-based theatre company The Laudanum Project's new show, The Grand Guignol Automaton.
Fear The Walking Dead: Press Release -- "NEW YORK, NY (April 29, 2015) – Hulu has closed a landmark, multi-year deal with AMC Networks Inc. for the exclusive subscription video on demand (SVOD) rights to new and upcoming primetime scripted drama and comedy series from AMC, IFC, BBC AMERICA, SundanceTV and WE tv. The new agreement will make Hulu the exclusive streaming home to the highly anticipated The Walking Dead companion series, Fear the Walking Dead, and future scripted series from across all five networks. In addition, the agreement will include exclusive and nonexclusive unscripted programming from WE tv.
Through the deal, Hulu will – over time – become the SVOD home to a diverse and comprehensive collection of AMC Networks Inc.-produced content. Hulu will also become the streaming home for a significant number of films from the IFC Films collection, including 2012 Sundance Film award winner Sleepwalk with Me; Room 237, the documentary film by Rodney Ascher about the perceived meaning in the film The Shining; Pina, the 3D film about dance choreographer Pina Bausch; and L.A. Outfest Grand Jury Award winner Weekend, to name a few.
Series from AMC Networks will be available on Hulu prior to each subsequent season’s network premiere. Hulu and the respective networks will execute substantial co-marketing and co-promotional campaigns to drive awareness and promote viewership of all series throughout the span of the agreement.
“AMC Networks has an incredible reputation and track record in producing captivating storytelling across a variety of genres for true connoisseurs of television,” said Mike Hopkins, Chief Executive Officer, Hulu. “This huge partnership guarantees that Hulu viewers will soon be able to enjoy the newest slate of premium programming from some of the top cable networks.”
“We believe in the combination of compelling content and technology to engage audiences and deliver viewers back to the linear television experience,” said Ed Carroll, Chief Operating Officer, AMC Networks. “AMC Networks has been the original home of some of the most popular shows in the history of online streaming, and we are excited about this new partnership with Hulu, a growing company that has created a network-branded environment for content in a highly competitive space.”
The agreement was negotiated by Lisa Holme for Hulu and Marci Wiseman for AMC Networks.
About Hulu
Hulu is a premium streaming TV destination that seeks to captivate and connect viewers with the stories they love by creating amazing experiences that celebrate the best of entertainment and technology. As we pursue this mission, we strive to continue to redefine and reinvent the TV-viewing experience.
About AMC Networks Inc.
Dedicated to producing quality programming and movie content for more than 30 years, AMC Networks Inc. (NASDAQ: AMCX) owns and operates several of the most popular and award-winning brands in cable television. AMC, IFC, SundanceTV, WE tv, and IFC Films produce and deliver distinctive, compelling and culturally relevant content that engages audiences across multiple platforms. The company also operates BBC AMERICA through a joint venture with BBC Worldwide. In addition, the company operates AMC Networks International, its global division. More information is available at www.amcnetworks.com."
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Goners Trade Paperback: Written by Jacob Semahn and illustrated by Jorge Corona, Goners Volume 1: We All Fall Down is now available in comic book shops and online:
Press Release -- "Death awaits the Latimer family on April 29th when Image Comics releases Goners Volume 1: “We All Fall Down” to local comic shops. As Goners reached the end of its first story arc, writer Jacob Semahn (Marvel Universe Ultimate Spider-Man) and artist Jorge Corona (Feathers) slowly chipped away at the mystery surrounding the death of Raleigh and Evelyn Latimer… mankind’s first line of defense against the supernatural.
Hunted, unprepared, and on the run, their children–Josiah and Zoe Latimer–take up the family mantle as they figure out who killed their parents and why.
Check out the synopsis and trailer below, and if you’ve missed the single issues of Goners, be sure to grab the TPB at your local comic book store this Wednesday!
Synopsis: "In a world where the mortal co-exists with the mythic, a single family through the ages stands as the first line of defense against all that go bump in the night. The latest generation has turned the ancestral tradition into a profitable brand. They are the Family Latimer…and this is the end of their story.""
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The Grand Guignol Automaton: Press Release -- "The Laudanum Project are back to unleash their most nightmarish work thus far - The Grand Guignol Automaton. From out of their harrowing stew of visceral poetry and musical dissonance, The Laudanum Project will bring to life the hideous story of Sandrine Moreaux, a tormented young woman with a terrifying past and an unspeakable future.
Somebody once said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Of course this is true providing that the scrutinizing eye sees what is actually there. For if beauty is merely truth’s smile caught in a perfect mirror, what then happens when that smile finally dies and fades? Ask The Laudanum Project.
Set in Paris in 1920 this one act play explores the obsessions, phobias and waking nightmares of a young woman whose inverse perceptions of beauty and love lead her all the way from her sleepy village of Coulon and onto the neon smeared boulevards of Pigalle. Within this labyrinth of sleaze and danger Sandrine Moreaux hunts down the sanctified temple that has always haunted her dreams, the infamous Théâtre Du Grand Guignol. Taking refuge inside a darkened room within the theatre’s foyer Sandrine begins a terrifying journey that will leave her transformed and reborn. As narrator Alphonse Cheese-Probert pores over the hideously surgical minutiae of Sandrine Moreaux’s monstrous story the impossibly intense soundtrack created by Lady Sophronia Lick-Penny (Keyboards), Barnabas Oral (Percussion), and Shiny Helen (Accordion) forms an ever shifting musical tapestry that envelopes the entire story from beginning to end.
With The Grand Guignol Automaton The Laudanum Project have once more ventured behind the curtain and conjured up a disturbing world where fear begets beauty, obsession begets love and ugliness is merely truth’s smile caught in a perfect mirror.
“Evoking Jean Genet and the penny dreadful, it both thrills and repulses, and will haunt you for days.” -- Christopher Fieldus, Hana Theatre Journal
“The Grand Guignol Automaton may be an unsettling piece of raconteur theatre but it is also a great piece of theatre.” -- Myron My, Theatre Press
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DATE: 17th of May Time: 8:00pm
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Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
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