Andrew Haber, a 25-year industry veteran of the international sales business, has died aged 56, according to his family.
Haber worked his entire career at Alfred Haber Distribution, the New Jersey-based company owned by his uncle Alfred Haber. He oversaw sales for the TV and film company in territories including Latin America, Asia and Europe.
Alfred Haber, President of Alfred Haber Distribution, said: “It is with deep sadness that I share with you news of the sudden passing of my nephew and beloved business associate, Andrew Haber. Andrew, a 25-year industry veteran, oversaw sales for Alfred Haber Distribution in various territories throughout the world, including Latin America, Asia and Europe. He had a large network of industry friends from all over the globe he met during the course of his travels…Andrew never met a stranger! His professionalism, kind words, magnetic smile and caring personality touched all he met, and will not be forgotten.
Haber worked his entire career at Alfred Haber Distribution, the New Jersey-based company owned by his uncle Alfred Haber. He oversaw sales for the TV and film company in territories including Latin America, Asia and Europe.
Alfred Haber, President of Alfred Haber Distribution, said: “It is with deep sadness that I share with you news of the sudden passing of my nephew and beloved business associate, Andrew Haber. Andrew, a 25-year industry veteran, oversaw sales for Alfred Haber Distribution in various territories throughout the world, including Latin America, Asia and Europe. He had a large network of industry friends from all over the globe he met during the course of his travels…Andrew never met a stranger! His professionalism, kind words, magnetic smile and caring personality touched all he met, and will not be forgotten.
- 4/14/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
HBO and Sky drama Chernobyl was a double winner at the Rose D’Or awards. The event, which was held in London and presented by Lenny Henry, awarded The Golden Rose Award to the Sister Pictures-produced limited series, which also picked up the best drama award, ahead of Killing Eve, Succession, Years and Years, 8 Days and Escape at Dannemora. The Studio Entertainment award was won by BBC One’s Michael McIntyre’s Big Show, with the Comedy category going to Canadian series Baroness von Sketch Show and the Comedy Drama and Sitcom to Spanish series Arde Madrid. Orphans of a Nation, the Brazilian drama from Globo, won in the Soaps and Telenovelas category, while the Children and Youth award was presented to Norwegian series ZombieLars, which pairs slapstick gags with social commentary. The Reality and Factual Entertainment category was won by BBC2’s The Repair Shop, the Arts category...
- 12/2/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Russell Jay Kagan, a prominent distribution executive known to his associates at Mip and Mipcom as the “Mayor of Cannes,” died on March 27 after a battle with cancer. He was 65.
Kagan, whose career spanned four decades and earned him widespread recognition, is best known for producing major television series and co-productions, including TNT’s “Joseph,” which earned him an Emmy Award for Best Mini-Series and Discovery Channel’s “Great Wall of Iron,” for which he received a Peabody Award.
Through his international work – with offices in New York, Hollywood and Europe – the respected executive forged strong relationships with many in the industry and was a board member for Natpe and the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Kagan began his career with Alfred Haber distribution before forming his own company International Program Consultants. It was at Ipc that Kagan produced Discovery Channel’s first co-production “Beyond 2000” and “Beyond Tomorrow,...
Kagan, whose career spanned four decades and earned him widespread recognition, is best known for producing major television series and co-productions, including TNT’s “Joseph,” which earned him an Emmy Award for Best Mini-Series and Discovery Channel’s “Great Wall of Iron,” for which he received a Peabody Award.
Through his international work – with offices in New York, Hollywood and Europe – the respected executive forged strong relationships with many in the industry and was a board member for Natpe and the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Kagan began his career with Alfred Haber distribution before forming his own company International Program Consultants. It was at Ipc that Kagan produced Discovery Channel’s first co-production “Beyond 2000” and “Beyond Tomorrow,...
- 3/29/2019
- by Anna Tingley
- Variety Film + TV
The new Disney-distributed talk show fronted by Tamron Hall has reached the 70% national clearance threshold now that stations from Sinclair Broadcast Group, Tribune Broadcasting, Cox and Meredith have signed on for the topical talker. Hall, the former “Today” anchor, is making the rounds at Natpe on Tuesday in preparation for the show’s fall launch. “The success we’ve had is a testament to the confidence these stations share with us that Tamron is the right host at the right time,” said Jed Cohen, exec VP and g.m. of Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer and International. Also Tuesday, Disney announced that Bill Geddie, longtime executive producer of ABC’s “The View” and producing partner of Barbara Walters, will serve as exec producer of Hall’s still-untitled series.
Indie distributor FilmRise has inked a deal with HBO for TV rights to the Sundance fave “The Miseducation of Cameron Post,” starring Chloe Grace Moretz.
Indie distributor FilmRise has inked a deal with HBO for TV rights to the Sundance fave “The Miseducation of Cameron Post,” starring Chloe Grace Moretz.
- 1/22/2019
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
NBC’s upcoming Elvis Presley tribute special, which will see Ed Sheeran, Shawn Mendes and others pay tribute to the rock ‘n’ roll legend, will be taken out internationally by Alfred Haber Television.
The distributor has landed the rights to the one-off show, which goes out on the U.S. network on Feb. 17. The special celebrates the 50th anniversary of the 1968 NBC special that helped Presley climb back up to the top of the charts.
Jennifer Lopez, Keith Urban, Josh Groban, Carrie Underwood and Blake Shelton will all be in the new show. The modern-day stars will perform Elvis classics including “Heartbreak Hotel,” “Hound Dog,” “All Shook Up” and “Blue Suede Shoes.”
There will also be outtakes from the 1960s special and interviews from those involved in that original broadcast. Veteran music producer Ken Ehrlich will produce the new show.
“We all know Elvis Presley as the king of Rock ‘n’ Roll,...
The distributor has landed the rights to the one-off show, which goes out on the U.S. network on Feb. 17. The special celebrates the 50th anniversary of the 1968 NBC special that helped Presley climb back up to the top of the charts.
Jennifer Lopez, Keith Urban, Josh Groban, Carrie Underwood and Blake Shelton will all be in the new show. The modern-day stars will perform Elvis classics including “Heartbreak Hotel,” “Hound Dog,” “All Shook Up” and “Blue Suede Shoes.”
There will also be outtakes from the 1960s special and interviews from those involved in that original broadcast. Veteran music producer Ken Ehrlich will produce the new show.
“We all know Elvis Presley as the king of Rock ‘n’ Roll,...
- 1/14/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
The Golden Globes are again going global with Alfred Haber Distribution closing deals for the three-hour awards ceremony in more than 160 territories worldwide. The 71st Golden Globes, which Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will again co-host, is set to air live on NBC on January 12. Dick Clark Productions are producing together with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Alfred Haber has closed deals for the Globes with multiple channels around the world including France's Canal Plus, E! Entertainment in the U.K., Denmark's TV2, Viacom 18 Media in India, the CCTV Movie Channel in China, Axn in
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- 12/9/2013
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
More Mipcom coverage
Cannes -- How hungry the international market is for Hollywood fare -- and how much bobbing and weaving it must do in response to cancellations and downgrades in the U.S. -- becomes apparent today as 12,500 attendees flock to Mipcom, the Riviera rendezvous where shows and formats from around the world are bought and sold.
The annual confab, which runs through Friday, arguably is the most important date on the small-screen calendar outside the U.S., and the money Hollywood heavyweights pocket from sales abroad arguably never has been as crucial for buttressing those fraught bottom lines back home.
Plus, a lot has been spent on original content by the U.S. networks, including the once penny-pinching NBC and those once-cautious cablers that used to rely on reruns. A big part of the broadcast nets' deficits now have to be made up in "foreign," as veterans still...
Cannes -- How hungry the international market is for Hollywood fare -- and how much bobbing and weaving it must do in response to cancellations and downgrades in the U.S. -- becomes apparent today as 12,500 attendees flock to Mipcom, the Riviera rendezvous where shows and formats from around the world are bought and sold.
The annual confab, which runs through Friday, arguably is the most important date on the small-screen calendar outside the U.S., and the money Hollywood heavyweights pocket from sales abroad arguably never has been as crucial for buttressing those fraught bottom lines back home.
Plus, a lot has been spent on original content by the U.S. networks, including the once penny-pinching NBC and those once-cautious cablers that used to rely on reruns. A big part of the broadcast nets' deficits now have to be made up in "foreign," as veterans still...
- 10/3/2010
- by By Elizabeth Guider
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Indie TV distributor Alfred Haber has racked up a number of key deals with broadcasters abroad for a package of three-dozen Imax doc titles.
The package includes four Academy Award nominees: "The Living Sea," "Dophins," "Alaska:Spirit of the Wild" and "Amazon" as well as boxoffice hits "Africa:The Serengeti" and "To the Limit."
Among the buyers are Germany's RTL2, Scandi's Non-Stop, China's CCTV6, Mexico's Azteca, Italy's Fox Channel, Poland's Tvp and Canada's Hifi.
"The international demand for this type of programming is extensive and growing," Haber, who also licenses the main American award shows, beauty pageants and other reality fare, said.
No details on pricing were available.
There are 400 Imax and other giant screen theaters in 40 countries outside North America.
The package includes four Academy Award nominees: "The Living Sea," "Dophins," "Alaska:Spirit of the Wild" and "Amazon" as well as boxoffice hits "Africa:The Serengeti" and "To the Limit."
Among the buyers are Germany's RTL2, Scandi's Non-Stop, China's CCTV6, Mexico's Azteca, Italy's Fox Channel, Poland's Tvp and Canada's Hifi.
"The international demand for this type of programming is extensive and growing," Haber, who also licenses the main American award shows, beauty pageants and other reality fare, said.
No details on pricing were available.
There are 400 Imax and other giant screen theaters in 40 countries outside North America.
- 6/28/2010
- by By Elizabeth Guider
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TV distributor Alfred Haber has closed a number of international deals for the 2001 CBS special "Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration," which was produced by David Gest.
New licensing deals have been inked with Channel 5 in the U.K., Nhk in Japan, Televisa in Mexico, A&E Mundo in Latin America, Nrk in Norway, e.tv in South Africa, Abs-cbn in the Philippines and Rcti in Indonesia. No financial details were available.
The two-hour special, owned by Gest's World Events, is one of the highest-rated musical specials in TV history. No word on whether CBS plans its own rerun.
At the time of its 2001 broadcast, the show repped the King of Pop's first live U.S. performance in 11 years and the first reunion with his brothers in 17. According to Nielsen Media Research, 45 million people watched all or part of the special.
Jackson performed solo hits including "Billie Jean," "The Way You Make Me Feel,...
New licensing deals have been inked with Channel 5 in the U.K., Nhk in Japan, Televisa in Mexico, A&E Mundo in Latin America, Nrk in Norway, e.tv in South Africa, Abs-cbn in the Philippines and Rcti in Indonesia. No financial details were available.
The two-hour special, owned by Gest's World Events, is one of the highest-rated musical specials in TV history. No word on whether CBS plans its own rerun.
At the time of its 2001 broadcast, the show repped the King of Pop's first live U.S. performance in 11 years and the first reunion with his brothers in 17. According to Nielsen Media Research, 45 million people watched all or part of the special.
Jackson performed solo hits including "Billie Jean," "The Way You Make Me Feel,...
- 8/31/2009
- by By Elizabeth Guider
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Arriving merely two decades after the original, the new version of The Hitcher continues the craze for remakes of horror movies geared to a new generation of teenagers. Sadly, it also continues the tendency of them to be even worse than the originals. While the 1986 edition was no classic, it's light years better than this update, which naturally opened without being screened for those ultimate villains, the critics.
Sean Bean steps into the formidable shoes of the truly creepy Rutger Hauer in the title role of the hitchhiker from hell. While the actor delivers a performance of requisite fierceness, his efforts are hamstrung by the screenplay's increasing level of silliness -- like the fact that his character manages to decimate nearly the entire police population of the American Southwest.
Tautly paced and signaling its level of sadism in the opening seconds with a shot of a cute bunny being reduced to road kill, the film depicts the efforts of a pair of hapless college students on a road trip, Jim (Zachary Knighton) and Grace (Sophia Bush), to avoid becoming victims of their pickup, who seems particularly focused on making their lives hell even at the expense of his own safety. Not content to merely terrorize them, he also manages to frame them for a series of murders, with the result that they wind up becoming fugitives from justice.
The screenplay's level of laziness is signaled by this observation by Grace while being pursued by a dozen police cars and a swooping helicopter: This is bad.
The scene from the original most cherished by horror fans, involving one of the characters threatened with being torn apart by two trucks, is dutifully reprised, with a predictable upping of the ante.
Knighton and Bush are reasonably effective as the would-be victims, though the latter is less than convincing when forced to go into vengeful Lara Croft mode. Neal McDonough, as a sympathetic police lieutenant, wears his Stetson in convincing fashion.
The inevitable hard rock soundtrack includes classics of nihilism like Nine Inch Nails' Closer.
Probably the nerviest move on filmmaker Dave Meyers' part was to include a clip from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, well demonstrating just how far we've descended when it comes to cinematic suspense.
THE HITCHER
Rogue Pictures
A Rogue Pictures and Intrepid Pictures presentation in association with Michael Bay of a Platinum Dunes production
Credits:
Director: Dave Meyers
Screenwriter: Eric Red, Jade Wade Wall, Eric Bernt
Producers: Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller, Charles Meeker, Alfred Haber
Director of photography: James Hawkinson
Production designer: David Lazan
Editor: Jim May
Music: Steve Jablonsky
Costume designer: LeeAnn Radeka
Cast:
John Ryder: Sean Bean
Grace Andrews: Sophia Bush
Jim Halsey: Zachary Knighton
Lt. Esteridge: Neal McDonough
Bufords' store clerk: Kyle Davis
Running time -- 90 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Sean Bean steps into the formidable shoes of the truly creepy Rutger Hauer in the title role of the hitchhiker from hell. While the actor delivers a performance of requisite fierceness, his efforts are hamstrung by the screenplay's increasing level of silliness -- like the fact that his character manages to decimate nearly the entire police population of the American Southwest.
Tautly paced and signaling its level of sadism in the opening seconds with a shot of a cute bunny being reduced to road kill, the film depicts the efforts of a pair of hapless college students on a road trip, Jim (Zachary Knighton) and Grace (Sophia Bush), to avoid becoming victims of their pickup, who seems particularly focused on making their lives hell even at the expense of his own safety. Not content to merely terrorize them, he also manages to frame them for a series of murders, with the result that they wind up becoming fugitives from justice.
The screenplay's level of laziness is signaled by this observation by Grace while being pursued by a dozen police cars and a swooping helicopter: This is bad.
The scene from the original most cherished by horror fans, involving one of the characters threatened with being torn apart by two trucks, is dutifully reprised, with a predictable upping of the ante.
Knighton and Bush are reasonably effective as the would-be victims, though the latter is less than convincing when forced to go into vengeful Lara Croft mode. Neal McDonough, as a sympathetic police lieutenant, wears his Stetson in convincing fashion.
The inevitable hard rock soundtrack includes classics of nihilism like Nine Inch Nails' Closer.
Probably the nerviest move on filmmaker Dave Meyers' part was to include a clip from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, well demonstrating just how far we've descended when it comes to cinematic suspense.
THE HITCHER
Rogue Pictures
A Rogue Pictures and Intrepid Pictures presentation in association with Michael Bay of a Platinum Dunes production
Credits:
Director: Dave Meyers
Screenwriter: Eric Red, Jade Wade Wall, Eric Bernt
Producers: Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller, Charles Meeker, Alfred Haber
Director of photography: James Hawkinson
Production designer: David Lazan
Editor: Jim May
Music: Steve Jablonsky
Costume designer: LeeAnn Radeka
Cast:
John Ryder: Sean Bean
Grace Andrews: Sophia Bush
Jim Halsey: Zachary Knighton
Lt. Esteridge: Neal McDonough
Bufords' store clerk: Kyle Davis
Running time -- 90 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 1/22/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sean Bean is thumbing his way to The Hitcher, Rogue Pictures' remake of the 1986 horror film being produced by Platinum Dunes. Sophia Bush also is on board the film, which is being directed by veteran music video helmer Dave Meyers. The script follows a young couple driving across the country who become prey for a serial killer, who blames all of his murders on the young man. Eric Bernt wrote the current draft. Bean will carve out the serial killer role made famous by Rutger Hauer in the original. Bush (WB Network's One Tree Hill) has been cast as the young woman; casting is imminent on the young man. Producing are Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller as well as Charles Meeker and Alfred Haber. Production is scheduled to start this month in Austin and Santa Fe, N.M. Bean, repped by CAA and ICM London, is shooting Outlaw, directed by Nick Love. The series of historical telepics produced in the 1990s that featured Bean in the star-making role of British army Lt. Richard Sharpe recently aired for the first time in the U.S. on BBC America. He is best known here for his appearances in The Lord of the Rings trilogy as well as recent features Flightplan and North Country.
Sean Bean is thumbing his way to The Hitcher, Rogue Pictures' remake of the 1986 horror film being produced by Platinum Dunes. Sophia Bush also is on board the film, which is being directed by veteran music video helmer Dave Meyers. The script follows a young couple driving across the country who become prey for a serial killer, who blames all of his murders on the young man. Eric Bernt wrote the current draft. Bean will carve out the serial killer role made famous by Rutger Hauer in the original. Bush (WB Network's One Tree Hill) has been cast as the young woman; casting is imminent on the young man. Producing are Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller as well as Charles Meeker and Alfred Haber. Production is scheduled to start this month in Austin and Santa Fe, N.M. Bean, repped by CAA and ICM London, is shooting Outlaw, directed by Nick Love. The series of historical telepics produced in the 1990s that featured Bean in the star-making role of British army Lt. Richard Sharpe recently aired for the first time in the U.S. on BBC America. He is best known here for his appearances in The Lord of the Rings trilogy as well as recent features Flightplan and North Country.
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