English Entertainment
Fox Reality inks deal with Zig Zag Productions for ‘My Bare Lady’
MUMBAI: Fox Reality has entered into a deal with US/UK co-production with Zig Zag Productions. The new Fox Reality original, My Bare Lady is a series of three, one-hour shows slated to air on the US cable and satellite network in the latter half of 2006.
The series will follow top US female porn stars who want to see if they can give leading British thespians a run for their money.
Many adult film stars think they can act, but can they make it in the refined and stuffy world of an English acting school? My Bare Lady is a reality series in which viewers find out if four female US adult stars can make it as legitimate actors in a matter of weeks, informs an official release.
After a casting call in Los Angeles, an established British theatre director will select his performers. He will bring them to London and put them through an intensive three week transformation. It shows what happens when you take a group of American porn stars and thrust them on stage in London’s famous theatre-land to perform a classic play.
Fox Reality CEO & general manager David Lyle said, “We look forward to working with this great British production company and creating an ambitious docu-soap. And it is a wonderful concept to have a production that shoots on both sides of the Atlantic, highlighting a humorous and all-too-real culture clash.”
“Zig Zag is very excited about this new and irreverent series for Fox Reality,” said Zig Zag managing director Danny Fenton. “We are really pleased to be making one of the first original commissions for the channel and appreciate their boldness and distinct new flavor. It typifies the freshness of Fox Reality to seize on an idea likeMy Bare Lady.”
English Entertainment
Ellison takes his Paramount-Warner Bros case straight to theater owners
The Skydance chief goes to CinemaCon with promises and a skeptical crowd waiting
CALIFORNIA: David Ellison strode into a room packed with thousands of cinema owners and executives at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Thursday and did something rather bold: he looked them in the eye and asked them to trust him.
The chief executive of Paramount Skydance vowed that his company would release a minimum of 30 films a year if regulators greenlight its proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, a deal that has made theater owners deeply, and loudly, nervous.
“I wanted to look every single one of you in the eye and give you my word,” Ellison told the crowd. “Once we combine with Warner Bros, we are going to make a minimum of 30 films annually across both studios.”
It was a confident pitch. Whether it landed is another matter. Cinema operators have already called on regulators to block the deal, and scepticism in the room was hardly concealed.
Ellison pushed back by pointing to recent form. Paramount, born from the merger of Paramount Global and Skydance Media last August, plans to release 15 films this year, nearly double the eight it put out in 2025. Progress, he argued, was already underway.
He also threw theater owners a bone they have long been chasing: all films, he pledged, would run exclusively in cinemas for a minimum of 45 days, drawing applause from a crowd that has spent years fighting for exactly that commitment across the industry.
“People can speculate all they want,” Ellison said, “but I am standing here today telling you personally that you can count on our complete commitment. And we’ll show you we mean it.”
Fine words. The regulators, however, will have the last one.
