Los Angeles, USA – MGM International Television Distribution announces an exciting MIPCOM 2016 slate features the launch of new drama series’ The Handmaid’s Tale, based on the classic and critically acclaimed Margaret Atwood novel starring Elizabeth Moss; Get Shorty, a reimagining of Elmore Leonard’s best-selling novel starring Ray Romano and Chris O’Dowd; and Condor based on the critically acclaimed feature Three Days of the Condor. New season highlights include the third instalment of the multi-award winning series Fargo starring Ewan McGregor and Carrie Coon, the 6th and final season of the hit series Teen Wolf and season 5 of the international hit series Vikings.
Now #1 in unscripted network television in the US, MGM Television’s new unscripted series highlights include The Celebrity Apprentice hosted by Arnold Schwarzenegger and the new Steve Harvey’s Funderdome, where entrepreneurs will competitively pitch their ideas head to head in front of a live studio audience, who then vote on the outcome.
Theatrical highlights are led by “The Magnificent Seven” where a diverse group of outlaws and gunslingers band together to defend a community’s helpless citizens in the American west, “Me Before You,” the international box office hit based on the bestselling novel starring Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin, and “Ben-Hur,” the epic story of Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston), a prince falsely accused of treason by his adopted brother Messala (Toby Kebbell), an officer in the Roman army and. MGM is currently in production on the original romance “Everything Everything,” based on Nicola Yoon’s best-selling novel of the same name, and in pre-production on “Tomb Raider,” starring Academy Award winner Alicia Vikander; “Death Wish,” starring Bruce Willis and directed by Eli Roth, along with “Sherlock Gnomes,” a co-production with Paramount produced by Elton John’s Rocket Pictures.
