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EXCLUSIVE: Rolin Jones, developer, executive producer and showrunner of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire, has signed a new multi-year overall with AMC Studios, which is behind the gothic horror drama. This is an encouraging sign for the future of the series, which is currently airing its second…

Dan McDermott, President of Entertainment and AMC Studios, says the studio is positioned to do more third-party productions like Silo, though he noted that “it’s not our primary business.” The big-budget dystopian drama was renewed last year for a second season on Apple TV+. Production for Season 2…

EXCLUSIVE: The Walking Dead spinoffs Daryl Dixon and The Ones Who Live and Interview with the Vampire are set to resume production after AMC Networks struck agreements with SAG-AFTRA. The three shows are part of interim agreements with the Breaking Bad broadcaster that will allow filming to resume on…

EXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks‘ genre streamer Shudder and indie distributor IFC Films have firmed up release plans for the Argentinian horror When Evil Lurks, ahead of its world premiere in the Midnight Madness section of the 2023 Toronto Film Festival. The latest feature from Demián Rugna, on the heels of his…

EXCLUSIVE: AMC Studios is in early development on Diligence, a drama from Sheldon Turner and Jennifer Klein's Vendetta Productions, for AMC and AMC+. Written by Turner, in Diligence, when a former investigative journalist begins working for private intelligence firm Diligence, he finds himself…

EXCLUSIVE: Under The Shadow and Wounds duo Babak Anvari and Lucan Toh of Two & Two Pictures have renewed their first look TV deal with AMC Studios. The filmmakers first struck a deal with The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad network in 2017. Two & Two, which is in post-production on Anvari’s third feature, the Netflix…

AMC Studios has opened writers’ rooms on two new projects — Invitation to a Bonfire based on Adrienne Celt’s novel and inspired by the famed Nabokov marriage, from Rachel Caris Love (Physical); and Demascus, a comedic sci-fi series from Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm (Boomerang) and executive produced by Better Call Saul…

Colman Domingo’s Dot will go from stage to screen after AMC Networks’ streamer ordered West Philly, Baby, a drama series inspired by the play. The series, which will co-produced by AMC Studios and AllBlk, will follow the journey of a Philadelphia family forced to grapple with their matriarch's declining memory amidst…

AMC Studios has greenlit AMC+ original Firebite, an Australian vampire fantasy series from See-Saw Films, the UK and Aussie producer behind AMC’s Top Of The Lake. Created, written, and directed by Australia's Indigenous auteur Warwick Thornton (Samson and Delilah) and Brendan Fletcher (Mad Bastards), Firebite is…

EXCLUSIVE: "I try to think big!' says Tura Satana's Varla in Russ Meyer's cult classic Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!, and that's exactly what Norman Reedus and AMC Studios plan to do. The Walking Dead star's bigbaldhead production company and AMC Studios are developing a small-screen series version of Meyer’s 1965…

EXCLUSIVE: AMC Studios has opened a writers' room for Moonhaven, an AI drama from writer-producer Peter Ocko (Lodge 49, Black Sails). The project is being developed as part of AMC's scripts-to-series model, which includes the commissioning of a writers' room to develop additional material and produce backup scripts…

EXCLUSIVE: The Walking Dead writer-producer Jim Barnes is expanding his relationship with AMC Studios, signing an exclusive, multi-year overall deal with the studio behind the hit zombie apocalypse series. Under the pact, Barnes will develop and produce new series for AMC’s television networks and streaming platforms…