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Content Partners, Film and TV IP Owner, Secures Capital From Carlyle

Content Partners, Film and TV IP Owner, Secures Capital From Carlyle

Published by Daniella Wilson

For an investment firm with only 14 employees and a name that intentionally flys under-the-radar, Content Partners has an outsized impact as a blue chip Hollywood rightsholder. The Mid-Wilshire-based L.A. company, founded by ex-Brillstein exec Steven Blume and former William Morris Agency COO Steven Kram, owns half of the entire C.S.I. procedural franchise (800-plus episodes) as part of its 3,000 hours of TV and counts chunks of a studio film library that totals upwards of 800 movies, including the entire Revolution Studios catalog (military actioner Black Hawk Down, Martin Scorsese feature Hugo, Natalie Portman drama Black Swan and Vin Diesel’s xXx action series among them). Since 2006, the firm has quietly worked with all the major studios and many of the power players in town to buy out backend profit participation from talent and production companies after projects have completed their initial run, amassing a large holding of titles in the process. Taking a stake in what it sees premium film, TV or music IP to monetize in the long tail is its stock-in-trade. And its partial or outright holdings …

A Long, Glamorous History of British Royals at The Carlyle Hotel

A Long, Glamorous History of British Royals at The Carlyle Hotel

Published by Sam Flores

The first royal to really be linked to The Carlyle was Princess Diana. While it’s entirely possible that Charles stayed there during his trips to New York in the ’80s and ’90s, it was the paparazzi-plagued princess who first got photographed outside the hotel in December 1995. She was in town to accept United Cerebral Palsy’s humanitarian award at its black-tie gala. But a few weeks earlier, she’d given an explosive interview in which she’d revealed to BBC reporter Martin Bashir the extent of Charles’s affair with Camilla Parker Bowles. (“There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded,” she told Bashir on the BBC news program Panorama.) A 2021 investigation found that Bashir had deceived Charles Spencer, Diana’s brother, in order to gain an introduction to the princess and persuade her to do the tell-all—with Bashir showing Spencer fabricated bank statements that made it seem that people in his and Diana’s circles were getting paid to spy on her for the press. (The BBC subsequently apologized, as did Bashir, …

Line Of Duty Adds Robert Carlyle To Season 7 Cast

Line Of Duty Adds Robert Carlyle To Season 7 Cast

Published by Sam Flores

Robert Carlye has been announced as a new addition to the cast of Line Of Duty ahead of production beginning on the much-hyped seventh season. On Thursday morning, the BBC announced that the Trainspotting actor will play a new detective constable character, Shaun Massie, when the award-winning crime drama returns to our screens next year. “Having been a huge admirer of [Line Of Duty creator] Jed Mercurio’s work for many years, I’m delighted to be given the opportunity to join such an exceptional cast for series seven of Line Of Duty,” he enthused. “The scripts for the series are excellent and will absolutely maintain the quality that the audience have come to expect from this fantastic show. DC Massie is an extraordinary character and I look forward to bringing him to life.” Robert’s other work includes his Bafta-winning performance in The Full Monty, an Emmy-nominated stint in the miniseries Human Trafficking, the horror sequel 28 Weeks Later and the family fantasy drama Once Upon A Time, in which he played Rumplestiltskin. More recently, he’s appeared …