Abacus Media Rights (AMR), an Amcomri Entertainment company, announces sales of Butchers of the Bayou, a 4 x 60’ uncompromising documentary mini-series set in America’s Deep South, to Prime Video for UK and Ireland. In addition, A&E has licensed the series for the rest of the world. Produced by Peninsula Television for A&E Network and Prime Video and directed by David Harvey (Bloodline Detectives, Green Eyed Killers), Butchers of the Bayou is executive produced by Elaine Frontain … [Read more...] about Abacus Media Rights sells true crime documentary mini-series ‘Butchers of the Bayou’ to Prime Video, A+E
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Abacus Media Rights appoints Will Stapley as Head of Acquisitions
Abacus Media Rights (AMR), a member of the Amcomri Media Group, has appointed Will Stapley as Head of Acquisitions across both scripted and unscripted programming. Will has worked in international distribution for twelve years in acquisitions and sales in all territories worldwide. As Head of Acquisitions and Partnerships for TVF International since 2016, Will has been responsible for managing and developing the acquisitions and content partnerships strategy across all programme genres. He has … [Read more...] about Abacus Media Rights appoints Will Stapley as Head of Acquisitions
Abacus Media Rights acquires worldwide rights to factual series ‘The Frontier’
Abacus Media Rights (AMR), an Amcomri Entertainment company, has secured worldwide distribution rights for The Frontier, a high-end factual series created and produced by Emmy®-nominated Daniel Sharp at Dash Pictures. Financed by Amcomri Productions, The Frontier is a lavish 6 x 60’ documentary series which will dispel the legends of the Wild West. With filming currently taking place in Texas USA, each episode of The Frontier is carefully crafted … [Read more...] about Abacus Media Rights acquires worldwide rights to factual series ‘The Frontier’
Abacus Media Rights retains Flame content sales and acquisitions director Fiona Gilroy
Abacus Media Rights (AMR), an Amcomri Entertainment company, which recently acquired Flame Media has announced today that Fiona Gilroy, former Content Sales & Acquisitions Director at Flame Media, will be working with Abacus Media Rights moving forward, managing producer relations and acquisitions throughout Australia and New Zealand and looking at funding models. AMR Managing Director, Jonathan Ford comments “Fiona has been an integral part of … [Read more...] about Abacus Media Rights retains Flame content sales and acquisitions director Fiona Gilroy
Abacus Media rights signs deal with Legend Media China
Abacus Media Rights (AMR), an Amcomri Entertainment company, has sold jaw-dropping documentary series Evolve to Chinese content aggregator Legend Media, ahead of MIP China. The deal, brokered by Still Road Media (SRM), also includes the intriguing Hitler’s Secret Sex Life. Legend Media has secured exclusive Free VOD (FVOD/AVOD), Transactional VOD, Subscription VOD, and NVOD rights for both series. Evolve (6 x 1 hour), produced by Beach House Pictures for Curiosity in … [Read more...] about Abacus Media rights signs deal with Legend Media China
Amcomri Entertainment acquires Flame Media
Amcomri Entertainment Inc. announced it has acquired the assets of Flame Media, a global distributor and library owner of factual and documentary TV content. Flame Media, with offices in Australia and the UK, has approximately 2,200 hours and more than 500 titles of high-end factual programming in its content library. Increasing the company’s TV library offering to 4,750 hours of programming, Flame will be operated by Amcomri’s TV content distribution business Abacus Media … [Read more...] about Amcomri Entertainment acquires Flame Media