Amazon Studios has signed a new overall deal for television with the Academy and Emmy Award-winning team at Plan B Entertainment, the film and TV production company headed by Brad Pitt and co-presidents Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner. Under the exclusive new agreement, its first ever devoted to television production, Plan B will develop and produce series to premiere on Amazon Prime Video in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. Plan B is currently in production with Academy Award-winning director Barry Jenkins on the upcoming Amazon Original series The Underground Railroad, and will also produce the new Amazon Original series Outer Range, created by Brian Watkins. Plan B is also working with Amazon Studios, along with Legendary Television, to develop Paper Girls, a dramatic series based on Brian K. Vaughan’s best-selling graphic novel.
A joint statement from Gardner and Kleiner read, “Amazon has become a home for such ambitious talent in our industry, pushing cutting-edge storytelling and intellectual property to increasingly exciting, global places. We have loved working with Jen and the Amazon Studios team and can’t wait to keep going.”
Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon Studios, said of Plan B, “Their incredible eye for groundbreaking creative material and their track record of success speaks for itself.”
The new thriller Outer Range centers on a rancher fighting for his land and family, who discovers an unfathomable mystery at the edge of Wyoming’s wilderness. Outer Range is from creator and executive producer Watkins, with executive producers Zev Borow, Heather Rae, and Plan B Entertainment.
Oscar and Golden Globe Award-winner Jenkins (Moonlight) will direct all episodes of the Amazon Original series The Underground Railroad. Based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling novel “The Underground Railroad,” which also won the National Book Award and was an Oprah Winfrey Book Club pick, the series is executive produced by Jenkins’ PASTEL, and Plan B Entertainment.
Creativity unleashed: D&AD releases free annual showcase and trend analysis
D&AD has released its highly sought after Annual available for free as part of its ongoing commitment to nurturing creativity across different communities.
The organization is sharing full access to the D&AD Annual--a summary of the insights, strategies and campaigns that powered the best creative work at the D&AD Awards 2024--and the D&AD Trend Report which explores the themes from the Annual and how they might shape the future.
The D&AD Annual goes “behind the work” of this year’s award-winning creative campaigns across 32 categories and provides exclusive insider insights from the people who brought them to life. Judged by over 300 world-leading designers, advertising executives and skilled creatives, the D&AD Awards represent one of the annual high points of the creative calendar with all winners presented with a D&AD Pencil.
From how conspiracy theory tactics were co-opted to make skincare brand CeraVe go viral, to how Channel 4 worked with multiple directors to portray vignettes of British life, and Apple found inspiration in the transparency of glass to inform the design of their Vision OS, the D&AD Annual shines a light on all the 2024 shortlisted and winning work.
As part of the Annual, D&AD Voices also invites perspectives on major themes represented in the winning work; from the lucrative rise of women’s football penned by journalist and broadcaster Zing Tsjeng and an exploration of how to brand a cultural institution by Art Review’s Louise Benson, to unpacking the new generation of magazines with MagCulture, and climate advertising with Creatives for Climate. The D&AD Annual is available here.
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