THR:
There is fallout from producer Stanley M. Brooks' financial troubles ahead of settlement talks planned for Monday with AFTRA, DGA and the WGA West. All three guilds have him on their "strike" (do not work) lists over unpaid salaries or residual payments.
The fallout involves Lifetime, to which Brooks had been a frequent supplier for the past decade -- up until a week or so ago. THR has learned he has quietly sold his interest in the only two projects he still has with the A&E Television Networks division, apparently to clear any obstacle to their production and to raise money to pay his union obligations -- and salvage his reputation.
Waking Up To Danger is your usual run-of-the-mill thriller that really doesn't deliver much.
TVF
Acting and producing have made way for Kyra Sedgwick's directorial debut on Lifetime this Sunday thanks to the network's Broad Focus Initiative. Read on!
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Production has begun on I Am Elizabeth Smart, Lifetime’s authorized original movie about the harrowing 2002 kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart, who serves as producer and narrator on the project. Announced during Lifetime’s March upfront, the film will air later this year as part of a cross-network event along with A&E Network’s new two-part Biography nonfiction special, Elizabeth Smart: Autobiography (working title).
