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Exclusive: Adam Barth has left his role as Director of Co-Productions, Development and Acquisitions at European distributor Eccho Rights and its parent Night Train Media.

We’ve got word of the news less than a week ahead of MIPCOM Cannes, where Eccho Rights will be shopping Safe Harbor, the buzzy crime drama from Ozark co-creator Mark Williams. Barth will remain as an exec producer on the show.

Barth has been with Eccho Rights since 2021, having joined after exiting Nent Studios UK (aka Drg), where he was SVP for Emea. Further back, he worked at New Media Vision, acting as an executive producer on international formats adaptations of shows such as NBC procedural Mysteries of Laura.

Eccho confirmed his departure to Deadline this week.

At Eccho, he has worked on shows such as Sundance and Virgin Media drama Vanishing Triangle and BBC drama Granite Harbour. He has worked as an exec producer on Safe Harbor,...

Exclusive: Night Train Media is launching a digital label.

Industry veteran Caitlin Meek-o’Connor will lead Night Train Digital, having joined Herbert L. Kloiber’s production and financing business last year.

The unit will focus on producing and managing TV and digital-first content across a number of platforms. It will manage all existing YouTube and social channels for Eccho Rights, the London-based distribution business owned by Night Train, and will take a broader look at the wider Night Train group and external clients.

“Night Train Digital represents our commitment to expanding our digital footprint and enhancing our content strategy,” said Kloiber, CEO of Night Train Media. “With Caitlin Meek-o’Connor at the helm, we are poised to explore new opportunities and deliver engaging digital-first content to global audiences.”

Meek-o’Connor had joined Eccho Rights a year ago as Digital Commercial Director, overseeing the scripted distributor’s direct-to-consumer offers. Prior to that,...

Burgess and Ruzek's engagement in Chicago Pd season 11 will have a happy ending, despite their past failed attempts at marriage. Squerciati reassures fans that this time, the couple will be committed to each other and will not break it off. Tying the knot this season seems like the perfect payoff for the pair's long romance, especially after Ruzek's near-death experience.

After a couple of failed attempts, Marina Squerciati discusses why Kim Burgess and Adam Ruzek's engagement in Chicago Pd season 11 will finally have a happy ending. To say that Intelligence's original romance has been through so much in the last decade would be an understatement. Still, it has always been clear that Burgess and Ruzek have loved each other from the start. So it was a major milestone for the couple when they take a major step in being committed to each other in Chicago Pd season 11, episode 3, "Safe Harbor.

Exclusive: Alfie Allen, Charlie Murphy and Jack Gleeson are to star in a Dutch-Belgian thriller series from Ozark co-creator Mark Williams, Night Train Media and Submarine.

They are starring alongside emerging Dutch star Martijn Lakemeier in the eight-part drama, which is for Dutch streamer Videoland and Belgium’s Streamz.

Production has begun in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, with Williams directing along with Arne Toonen, and we hear the ambition is for Safe Harbor to be a returner that aims to balance edge-of-the-seat thrills with character-based stories and a twisty plot line. Further shooting will take place in Belgium and Ireland, Deadline understands.

The series follows gifted hacker Tobias (Allen) and his ambitious best friend Marco (Lakemeier), who are intent on cracking into the tech billionaires club. They are plucked from quiet obscurity and plunged headfirst into...

Exclusive: Fox has put in development Interceptor, a one-hour Coast Guard drama, from The Nacelle Company and Kimberly Harrison’s Based On A True Story Productions.

Written by Katie J. Stone, David Daitch and John Pruitt, in Interceptor, a rookie Coast Guard Special Forces team, as diverse as the nation they are sworn to protect, must battle the drug infested waters off the coast of Florida, and navigate the streets of Miami, all while working through the trials of their personal lives.

Nacelle’s Brian Volk-Weiss, Matt Ochacher and Michael Pelmont executive produce with Harrison for Based On A True Story. Fox Entertainment is the studio.

The writing team of Stone and Daitch have credits that include USA’s Shooter, Call of Duty, and previously developed drama Adversaries at ABC via Sony TV.

Pruitt is a retired Coast Guard Captain who commanded three cutters and led boarding parties in Iraq.

This is the sixth installment of Rolling Stone’s series At Work, in which we explore the fast-changing music business from the perspective of a different industry leader each week. Read earlier pieces in the series here.

Dina Lapolt’s law firm was born because Tupac’s mother Afeni Shakur, in 2001, started telling others in the music industry that Lapolt was opening her own practice. Today, Lapolt Law — which has worked with artists like deadmau5 and Britney Spears — is the only major, music-focused law firm owned by a single female attorney.

“The Walking Dead” star Andrew Lincoln is set to star opposite Naomi Watts in “Penguin Bloom,” the upcoming adaptation of Bradley Trevor Greive and Cameron Bloom’s bestseller.

The film will be directed by Glendyn Ivin (“Safe Harbor”) and written by Shaun Grant and Harry Cripps and is set to begin production in Australia at the beginning of August.

Watts will also produce alongside Emma Cooper and Made Up Stories’ Bruna Papandrea, Jodi Matterson and Steve Hutensky.

Also Read: 'Walking Dead' Movie With Andrew Lincoln to Be Released In Theaters (Video)

Lincoln will star as Cameron Bloom, the husband of Sam Bloom (Watts), in a true story about a little bird that saves a family. A family struggles to come to terms with a near-fatal accident that left their mother paralyzed and they have to adjust to their situation until an injured Magpie chick comes along.

Cameron Bloom, Sam Bloom...

The Walking Dead star Andrew Lincoln has joined Naomi Watts in Penguin Bloom, the Glendyn Ivin-directed adaptation of the bestseller written by Bradley Trevor Greive. Shaun Grant and Harry Cripps wrote the script and production begins in Sydney, Australia in August.

Watts is producing alongside Emma Cooper and Made Up Stories’ Bruna Papandrea, Jodi Matterson and Steve Hutensky.

Set on Sydney’s northern beaches, Penguin Bloom is the true story of a unique little bird that saves a family. Cameron and Sam Bloom and their three boys were an everyday family until a shocking, near-fatal accident left Sam paralyzed. She fell from a balcony while on holiday in Thailand, and was left paralyzed from the chest down. As the family struggled to adjust to her new situation, an unlikely ally entered their lives in the form of an injured Magpie chick which the Bloom clan called Penguin. The wild...

Lynn Collins (Manhunt: Unibomber) has been cast in the lead role of ABC’s cop drama pilot Safe Harbor, with Aasif Mandvi (Shut Eye) and Kris D. Lofton (Ballers) set to co-star. Written by Jason Richman and directed by Michael Offer, Safe Harbor chronicles the colorful, complicated lives of cops on and off the beat as we follow them into harrowing, emotional and often humorous situations. It centers on Oriana “Ori” Cloverfield (Collins), who gave up a legal career to…...

The rise of the award-winning David Oyelowo continues with the news that Paramount Pictures has snapped up the global distribution rights to the Selma star’s latest film, Captive. The story is based on the real events that are told in the book Unlikely Angel: The Untold Story of the Atlanta Hostage Hero, by Ashley Smith and Stacy Mattingley.

Kate Mara (House Of Cards) plays the lead role of Ashley Smith – a single mother struggling with drug addiction and a battle for custody of her daughter. Smith is thrust into the spotlight, however, when prison escapee Brian Nichols forces his way into her apartment and holds her captive for seven hours. Nichols had been awaiting trial for multiple counts of kidnapping, assault and rape of a former girlfriend, when he overpowered law enforcement officers in the courthouse and shot the judge – Rowland Barnes – and a court reporter named Julie Brandau.

In today's casting news, David Oyelowo (Jack Reacher) and Kate Mara (House of Cards) are set to star in the thriller, Captive, for director Jerry Jameson (Walker, Texas Ranger). Written by Brian Bird and Reinhard Denke, and based on Ashley Smith's book, "An Unlikely Angel", Captive is based on the true events of an escaped prisoner who takes revenge on the people who put him in jail and takes a young woman hostage. Oyelowo will play the convict, Brian Nichols, while Mara will play Smith, the woman Nichols takes hostage. Leonor Varela (Dallas) and Mimi Rogers (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery) round out the cast. Captive is scheduled to begin principal photography this month. Hit the jump for more. Check out the full details in the press release below: David Oyelowo & Kate Mara To Star In ‘Captive’ Bn Films To Produce And Finance Los Angeles (Tuesday, October 15) – Bn Films...

Bn Films announced today that David Oyelowo and Kate Mara would be boarding the thriller Captive. Leonor Varela and Mimi Rogers will be rounding out this ensemble. Captive is written by Brian Bird and Reinhard Denke, based on Ashley Smith. Alex Garcia, Lucas Akoskin, Terry Botwick, David Oyelowo, and Ken Wales will produce along with Katrina Wolfe, Jonathan Gray, Ralph Winter, Elliott Lester, and Brian Bird who are set as executive producers. The film is set to begin principal photography later this month.

The movie will be directed by Jerry Jameson (Safe Harbor, Raise the Titanic) and is being produced in association with Brightside Entertainment, 1019 Entertainment and Oyelowo's Yoruba Saxon Productions. This will also mark Bn's second venture with Oyelowo, who starred in Nightingale, set for a festival run next year.

Captive is a thriller based on true events that occurred in Atlanta, Ga., on March 11, 2005. Brian Nichols (Oyelowo) breaks...

Treat Williams and Nancy Travis have been tapped to star in "Safe Harbor," a Hallmark Channel original movie.

The telefilm, set to air this year, is based on a true story. It revolves around a couple about to sail around the world who take a couple of juvenile delinquents under their wing and learn about hope, second chances and living their dreams. Orson Bean co-stars.

"Harbor" is directed by Jerry Jameson from a script by Josef Anderson, and the two co-executive produced. The telefilm, from Daniel L. Paulson Prods. and Bright World, is executive produced by Paulson and also co-exec produced by Norton Wright.

Williams has starred on the WB Network's "Everwood" and TNT's "Heartland." Travis co-stars on TBS' "The Bill Engvall Show."...