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Prior to the pandemic, London and Los Angeles headquartered production house Pulse Films was experiencing something of a golden period. Founded by Thomas Benski and Marisa Clifford in 2005, the company had three divisions firing on all cylinders: non-fiction had seen success with Netflix docs The Disappearance Of Madel…

EXCLUSIVE: From writers rooms to board meetings and Friday night cocktail hours, the world of virtual meetings has boomed during the coronavirus lockdown. Here's one that might be an industry first – last night the cast and crew of Sky's upcoming series Gangs Of London got together to toast the show ahead of TX on…

Riz Ahmed is a multi-talented man. Alongside being a name actor on both sides of the pond – with recent credits including HBO’s The Night Of, Marvel movie Venom and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – Ahmed is also a successful rapper, as well as a vocal activist for race and cultural issues. In new movie Mogul Mowgli,…

Here's the first trailer for Gangs Of London, the upcoming Sky Atlantic drama from The Raid director Gareth Evans. Joe Cole leads a cast also featuring Sope Dirisu, Colm Meaney, Lucian Msamati and Michelle Farley. The show depicts the gritty underbelly of a fictional London controlled by international gangs, with…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix and Pulse Films have been served with a legal letter about a breach of copyright on Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator, their documentary on the downfall of hot yoga founder Bikram Choudhury. Martha Engel, a trademark attorney at law firm Marjen, has written to the companies on behalf of Ghosh's Yoga…

Vice Media Group has all-but ruled out buying more production companies to bolster Vice Studios, as it focuses on achieving “organic” double-digit revenue growth at the content division in 2020. In a wide-ranging breakfast discussion with journalists from the UK’s Broadcasting Press Guild on Thursday, Vice’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winner Nicolas Cage and Hereditary‘s Alex Wolff have boarded Michael Sarnoski’s Pig. The feature project, which began production today, follows a truffle hunter, played by Cage, who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness. When his beloved foraging pig is kidnapped, he must journey into Portland – and…

Hell on Wheels star Colm Meaney, Press' Paapa Essiedu and Harry Potter's David Bradley are the latest names to be added to Sky and Cinemax drama Gangs of London. The trio will join Peaky Blinders star Joe Cole and Humans' Sope Dirisu in the crime thriller, which was created by Gareth Evans. Rounding out the cast are…

Netflix has released a trailer for its long-gestating documentary series The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann about the missing British child, the day before its release. The SVOD is to launch the multi-part series on 15 March. It tells the story of the disappearance of 3-year-old McCann, who vanished from the…

EXCLUSIVE: Pulse Films and Infernal Affairs director Andrew Lau have optioned English-language screen rights to Chinese comic book series Teddy Boy, the source material for Lau’s hit 90’s crime movie franchise Young And Dangerous. Thomas Benski, Dimitra Tsingou and Brian Levy will be producing for Pulse. Lau and his…

EXCLUSIVE: Emma Cooper, Global President of Non-Fiction at Pulse Films, has left the XY Chelsea and Shut Up And Play The Hits producer as it restructures its TV arm. I hear that she recently departed the Vice-owned company, having joined in 2015. Cooper is responsible for a raft of UK and U.S. series including 10-part…

EXCLUSIVE: Shut Up and Play The Hits producer Pulse Films has teamed with Paramount Television to option the rights to Dan Hancox's grime book Inner City Pressure. The two companies are to adapt the book, which tells the story of the British music genre that spawned the likes of Dizzee Rascal, Stormzy and Skepta, for…