Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable, the documentary that catches the world up on Hamilton, the pro surfer who returned to competition a year after she lost an arm in a shark attack when she was just 13. The film...
With hyper-realistic visuals, The Weather Channel connects with viewers in harm’s way. By Paula Hendrickson for Emmy magazine. Early in last year's coverage of hurricanes Florence and Michael, viewers of The Weather Channel saw meteorologist Erika Navarro surrounded in the studio by a very realistic depiction of...
By Angela Betancourt for L'etage On Sunday, February 24, Byron Allen and his Entertainment Studios held the third annual Oscar Gala and viewing party at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel to benefit the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. The Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is a 501(c)(3) non-profit institution...
Byron Allen has turned to NBCUniversal and Nexstar alum Tom O’Brien to serve as president of the Weather Channel, the cable stalwart that Allen’s Entertainment Studios acquired for $300 million last March. O’Brien replaces Dave Shull, who left the company in October after serving as president-CEO of the...
Byron Allen hosted his 3rd Annual Oscars Gala viewing party and charity event at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, and holy hell was the red carpet teeming with legends, darling. The event, which was thrown by Allen’s Entertainment Studios, was a fundraiser for the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles,...
Getty Images Byron Allen hosted his third annual Oscars gala benefitting Children’s Hospital Los Angeles at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on Sunday evening where stars like Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, Quincy Jones and Stevie Wonder dined and danced while raising money for a worthy cause on Hollywood’s biggest night. The exclusive, black-tie affair emceed by Jamie Foxx is the hottest...
Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios will launch what it calls the first Spanish-language weather streaming service: The Weather Channel en Español. Entertainment Studios, whose assets include TV networks, syndicated TV series and a film distribution company, bought the Weather Channel linear network and its streaming service, Local...
Some big things have come from sharks — Discovery Channel’s Shark Week, Steven Spielberg’s career and “Sharknado,” to name a few. Showbiz mogul Byron Allen used one to launch his theatrical distribution company, Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures. “I studied all of the release patterns, genres and movies, and noticed that...
The Weather Channel is a locomotive in Entertainment Studios’ portfolio of businesses generating sizable cash-flow profit, enlarging entrée to advertisers because of its heft and, in what is often unappreciated by outsiders, serving as a media-technology engine. To keep the Weather Channel cable network relevant in an era when information is...
To truly understand how Byron Allen, the guy from “Real People,” became Byron Allenthe media mogul that owns the Weather Channel, you have to hear his story about the courtroom set that needed a home. The CEO and president of Entertainment Studios, one of the largest distributors and independent...
