Exclusive: Burgeoning British podcast studio Novel is making a big U.S. play, hiring senior execs from The Daily and Today in Focus, striking a partnership with UTA and opening up conversations over TV and film adaptations.
The London-headquartered outfit, which calls itself the “biggest independent podcast company in Europe,” launched six years ago and has created around 41 shows for the likes of the BBC, Spotify and Audible including the award-winning Bellingcat Podcast and The Superhero Complex. With staff numbers increasing almost tenfold since the pandemic started, Novel is now pivoting focus across the pond and it already makes around half its revenue in the U.S.
In comes The Daily Senior Audio Producer Austin Mitchell as Creative Director, Production, while The Guardian’s Today In Focus’ Joint Exec Mythili Rao, who used to work for The New Yorker, will soon join as Managing Editor.
A Communications and Marketing Lead,...
The London-headquartered outfit, which calls itself the “biggest independent podcast company in Europe,” launched six years ago and has created around 41 shows for the likes of the BBC, Spotify and Audible including the award-winning Bellingcat Podcast and The Superhero Complex. With staff numbers increasing almost tenfold since the pandemic started, Novel is now pivoting focus across the pond and it already makes around half its revenue in the U.S.
In comes The Daily Senior Audio Producer Austin Mitchell as Creative Director, Production, while The Guardian’s Today In Focus’ Joint Exec Mythili Rao, who used to work for The New Yorker, will soon join as Managing Editor.
A Communications and Marketing Lead,...
- 4/21/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Nocturnal Animals is the second film directed by fashion bigwig Tom Ford, an adaptation of Austin Mitchell’s celebrated 1993 novel Tony and Susan. Amy Adams plays an art gallery owner who is disturbed by the manuscript of a novel her former husband sends her: it’s about an academic (played by Jake Gyllenhaal) whose family is assaulted while on a road trip across Texas. Ford, Adams, and co-star Aaron Taylor Johnson talk about adapting the book, what Ford’s background in fashion brought to the film, and how his childhood in Texas influenced the script.
•Nocturnal Animals is released on 4 November in the UK, 10 November in Australia, and 18 November in the Us
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•Nocturnal Animals is released on 4 November in the UK, 10 November in Australia, and 18 November in the Us
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- 11/2/2016
- by Andrew Pulver and Jonross Swaby
- The Guardian - Film News
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