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Exclusive: Sony Pictures Television – Nonfiction is building up its nonfiction roster.

The division, which is behind series including American Idol and 90 Day Fiancé has struck two overall deals with Nick Rigg’s Brass Monkeys Media and Royal Malloy’s Royal Entertainment Group.

The deal sees Brass Monkeys Media and Royal Entertainment Group use Sony’s infrastructure and production capabilities and gives Sony access to Rigg’s lifestyle formats and competition shows, and Malloy’s expertise in male-driven programming.

Rigg was previously Head of Unscripted for Diga Studio, where he oversaw series such as Selling the Hamptons for Max, Million Dollar Beach House for Netflix, America’s Big Deal for USA, Hot Ones: The Game Show for truTV, and The Flipping El Moussas for HGTV. Before that, he was President of ITV joint venture Loud Television, which was behind Tiny House Nation for Fyi and A&e, and Netflix’s Girls Incarcerated,...

Indican Pictures will distribute Jonathan Holbrook's Beloved Beast. To show in theatres and on Digital platforms, Beloved Beast takes a note from John Carpenter's Halloween (1979) as a deranged individual escapes from a local mental hospital. On the loose, this strange character goes on a murder spree, in a small town. Beloved Beast stars: Meredith Binder (The Oregonian), Tabitha Bastien (The Wonderland Murders), Sheila Houlahan and Lance Carver. A trailer and the artwork are here ahead of the film's October release. The official synopsis mentions another character, Nina (Sanae Loutsis). Only twelve years old, Nina invites this lunatic into her home, only to find her Aunt Erma has gone missing, shortly after. Now, Nina is alone with this murderer, with nowhere to escape to. Beloved Beast is nearly three hours along. Set to show on October 11th, this title will show in several theatres, across the United States. In Los Angeles,...

Larry Brand, a writer-director whose credits include Halloween: Resurrection and several Roger Corman films, died peacefully February 9 at his home in Hollywood. He was 69.

Brand was born in New York City on December 16, 1949. He grew up in the Forest Hills neighborhood of Queens and attended City College in New York before making his way to Los Angeles in 1974. His first job in the film industry was as driver and production assistant to the legendary Orson Welles. Brand wrote his first feature film, the psychological thriller Backfire with frequent collaborator Rebecca Reynolds. From there, he expanded his skills in directing and acting. He collaborated with indie film producer Roger Corman on movies including The Drifter, Masque of the Red Death and Overexposed.

He continued his indie streak with award-winning films such as Paranoia and Christina. He also had a hand in studio productions such as Hard Luck starring Wesley Snipes as...

Kate Johnson was sexually assaulted and murdered in her own dorm room by her acquaintance Deniz Aydiner, The Wonderland Murders examines this tragic and brutal case. May 29, 2001, and Kate was found by friends dead in her dorm room, she’d been sexually assaulted and strangled. Kate had only just moved into the room to act as a hall monitor over the summer and had hoped to teach music at high school. Detectives began gathering DNA from anyone who might have come into contact with Kate and one of those people was Turkish citizen Deniz Aydiner. However, but the time […]

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Jaime Lyn Larson was raped, murdered and mutilated on Christmas Day by mentally ill man Michael James Kirkland, The Wonderland Murders examines this disturbing case. Christmas Day, 2012, in Southwest Portland and 33-year-old Jaime Lyn Larson was found dead in her apartment around 10:00 P.M. in the evening. A medical examination found that she’d been raped, sodomized and then suffocated. A forensic examination of the scene helped identify 37-year-old Michael James Kirkland and U.S. Marshalls arrested him on January 4. He was initially charged with aggravated murder, but later charges of burglary, first-degree-rape and first-degree sodomy were added. Detectives believed […]

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Mayra Sophia Cruz Rodriguez and Nikayla Powell were both sexually assaulted and murdered by homeless man Mark Beebout, Det. Molly Daul recounts how she helped bring the sexual predator to justice on The Wonderland Murders. June 26, 2012, and the body of 15-year-old Mayra Sophia Cruz Rodriguez was found in Washington Park, Portland. Initially police were unable to establish who she was or how she’d been killed. They did know she’d been murdered and they also knew she’d been raped. Then in July the same year another woman was raped and murdered, 32-year-old Nikayla Jaedon Powell was found dead in […]

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