TORONTO -- (Business Wire)
Leading global distributor Kew Media Distribution (KMD), part of KEW
MEDIA GROUP INC. (“KEW MEDIA,” “KEW” or the “Company”) (TSX:KEW and
KEW.WT), today announced it will be distributing the upcoming
documentary Laurel Canyon from director Alison Ellwood (History
of the Eagles). KMD launched sales for the title at the MIPTV
international television market and will be showcasing the film at the
Cannes Film Festival thereafter.
Laurel Canyon will pull back the curtain on a mythical world and
provide an up-close look at the lives of the musicians who inhabited it.
Through a wealth of rare and newly unearthed footage and audio
recordings, the documentary will feature an intimate portrait of the
artists who created a music revolution. Celebrating the music of Linda
Ronstadt, Joni Mitchell, The Doors, the Mamas and the Papas, The Byrds,
Crosby, Stills & Nash, Neil Young, Eagles, Jackson Browne, Frank Zappa
and more, the film takes us back to a time when a rustic canyon in the
heart of Los Angeles became a musical petri dish.
Laurel Canyon is being executive produced by Frank Marshall, The
Kennedy/Marshall Company; Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey, Amblin
Television; Craig Kallman and Mark Pinkus, Warner Music Group; Alex
Gibney, Stacey Offman and Richard Perello, Jigsaw Productions; and Jeff
Pollack. The film is produced by Ryan Suffern, The Kennedy/Marshall
Company, and Erin Edeiken, Jigsaw Productions. It will premiere in late
2019 on EPIX in the US.
About KEW MEDIA GROUP INC.
KEW MEDIA GROUP is a leading publicly-listed content company that
produces and distributes multi-genre content worldwide. Companies
included in the KEW family are the production companies: Architect
Films, Awesome Media & Entertainment, Bristow Global Media, Collins
Avenue Productions, Essential Media Group, 4East Media, Frantic Films,
Jigsaw Productions, Media Headquarters, Our House Media, Sienna Films,
Spirit Digital Media, and Two Rivers Media; and the distribution
companies: KEW Media Distribution and TCB Media Rights.
With primary offices in London, Los Angeles, New York, Sydney and
Toronto, the KEW MEDIA GROUP companies develop, produce and distribute
more than 2,200 hours of content every year, as well as manage a library
of more than 14,000 hours of content, for almost every available viewing
platform worldwide. KEW aspires to offer great content from all over the
world to viewers of all ages and tastes. KEW promotes transparency,
equality, respect, and inclusiveness and plans to grow with the benefit
of people from a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds.
About The Kennedy/Marshall Company
Established in 1991 by veteran producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank
Marshall, The Kennedy/Marshall Company is behind award-winning films
like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Lincoln, Jurassic
World, and Sully. In 2012, the Documentary Division led by
Ryan Suffern, was created to tell non-fiction stories with the same
passion and expertise. Recent projects include commissioned pieces for
ESPN Films’ 30 for 30 series, HBO’s Frank Sinatra series, Finding
Oscar, The China Hustle and A Final Cut for Orson.
Kennedy/Marshall is currently producing a feature documentary on country
legend Johnny Cash.
About Jigsaw Productions
Jigsaw Productions is helmed by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Alex
Gibney, considered one of the most prolific and thought-provoking
documentary filmmakers of our generation. Jigsaw has produced some of
the most acclaimed documentary films including Going Clear: Scientology
and the Prison of Belief, Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side,
Oscar-nominated Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,Zero
Days, Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes and Alex Gibney’s
latest feature, The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
which premiered on HBO in March 2019. Jigsaw's slate of highly visible
TV series includes Dirty Money a six-part investigative series on
Netflix that delves into corporate corruption and scandal, highly
acclaimed Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat based on Samin Nosrat’s book of
the same name on Netflix, The Clinton Affair on A&E and Enemies:
The President, Justice & the FBI on Showtime. Whether the
company is creating a documentary or narrative film, a scripted or
unscripted series, Jigsaw adheres to a particular ethos: well-told,
insightful, scrupulously researched, and visually poignant stories,
which ignite and engage our curiosity. Reaching audiences on screens
small or large, on platforms digital or traditional, Jigsaw aims to
achieve critical and commercial success without sacrificing style or
authenticity.
About Amblin Television
Amblin Television, a long-time leader in quality programming, is a
division of Amblin Partners, a content creation company led by Steven
Spielberg. Amblin Television’s co-presidents, Darryl Frank and Justin
Falvey, oversee all development, production and programming for the
company. Amblin Television currently has ten projects in various stages
of production including Bull for CBS, Roswell, New Mexico
for the CW, the adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill
House for Netflix, Amazing Stories for Apple, Halo for
Showtime, Cortes and Montezuma for Amazon, Animaniacs for
Hulu, Why We Hate, for Discovery, pilot Resident Alien for
SYFY and the documentary film Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind
for HBO.
Some of Amblin Television’s previous credits include the Emmy and Golden
Globe Award-winning drama The Americans for FX, Emmy-nominated
HBO movie All The Way starring Bryan Cranston, Smash for
NBC, Under the Dome for CBS, Falling Skies for TNT, The
Borgias and The United States of Tara for Showtime, and Las
Vegas for NBC.
About EPIX
EPIX, an MGM company, is a premium television network delivering a broad
line-up of quality original series and documentaries, the latest movie
releases and classic film franchises – all available on TV, on demand,
online and across devices. A destination for premium content, EPIX is
tripling the amount of original programming on the network beginning in
2018, with a roster of original series including Get Shorty
starring Chris O’Dowd and Ray Romano, spy thrillers Berlin Station
and Deep State, the return of Mark Burnett’s boxing competition
series The Contender and late night stand-up comedy series Unprotected
Sets from executive producer Wanda Sykes. In 2019, the network will
premiere new series Godfather of Harlem starring and executive
produced by Forest Whitaker, Pennyworth, the origin story of
Batman’s butler Alfred, from DC, and Our Lady, LTD starring
Sir Ben Kingsley. Launched in October 2009, EPIX is available nationwide
through cable, telco, satellite and emerging digital distribution
platforms providing more movies than any other network with thousands of
titles available for streaming.
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