Anne Rice

DARK WINDS Renewed for a Second Season on AMC/AMC+

Produced by AMC Studios, the six-episode second season will arrive on AMC+ and AMC next year. The season one premiere on June 12 attracted an audience of 2.2 million viewers on AMC in Nielsen live+3 ratings, becoming the #5 cable drama premiere of the current broadcast TV season. Dark Winds is also the #1 new series launch in AMC+ history.

AMC Networks Greenlights STRAIGHT MAN Starring Emmy-Nominated Bob Odenkirk

AMC Networks has announced that it had greenlit a new series starring Bob Odenkirk for 2023 called Straight Man, with partners Sony Pictures’ Television TriStar TV and Gran Via. The project was announced as fast-track development earlier this month in advance of AMC Networks’ upfront event in New York City, and that turned out to be one fast track.

AMC Networks Greenlights ORPHAN BLACK: ECHOES

Produced and distributed by Boat Rocker, Orphan Black: Echoes will have a 10-episode first season. Anna Fishko (Pieces of Her, Fear the Walking Dead) is creator, writer, showrunner and executive producer with John Fawcett, the co-creator of the original series who directed 17 episodes across all five seasons, on as director and executive producer.

AMC Networks Fast-Track Developing New Series STRAIGHT MAN Starring Bob Odenkirk

Aaron Zelman and Paul Lieberstein, who are adapting the project from the novel of the same name by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo, would serve as co-showrunners. Straight Man would be Odenkirk’s third series on AMC, following Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.

Eric Bogosian Joins Cast of ANNE RICE'S INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE

Eric Bogosian has been cast in Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire as “Daniel Molloy,” a journalist nearing the end of his career who’s given a second chance at the interview of a lifetime. Based on Anne Rice’s novel, the series follows Louis de Pointe, Lestat De Lioncourt and Claudia’s epic story of love, blood and the perils of immortality.

AMC Networks Greenlights New Series THE DRIVER Starring Giancarlo Esposito

AMC Networks today announced that it had greenlit a new dramatic series for 2023 starring Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul), The Driver. Produced by AMC Studios, in association with A+E Studios and Thruline Entertainment, The Driver will have a six-episode first season.

AMC Networks Greenlights New THE WALKING DEAD Spinoff Series

AMC Networks today announced that it has greenlit a new series set in The Walking Dead Universe, starring Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.  Isle of the Dead envisions the popular Maggie and Negan characters traveling into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan long ago cut off from the mainland.

Super Bowl Sunday Was the Biggest Day for AMC+ Since Launch

In its first three days of availability, The Walking Dead episode “No Other Way” has already become the most watched episode of any series on AMC+ to date. This week’s episode also became the #1 season launch for customer acquisition, with double-digit growth from the prior season.

AMC Greenlights INVITATION TO A BONFIRE & DEMASCUS Series

AMC Networks today announced that it has greenlit two new original series for 2023, Demascus and Invitation to a Bonfire. Both shows were developed as part of AMC’s “scripts-to-series” model, which opens writers’ rooms to develop prospective series that, in success, move straight-to-series.

Acclaimed Drama HALT & CATCH FIRE Coming to AMC+

“Halt and Catch Fire” captures the rise of the PC era in the early 1980s, focusing on four primary characters attempting to innovate against the changing backdrop of technology and Texas’ Silicon Prairie. Starring Lee Pace as Joe MacMillan; Scoot McNairy as Gordon Clark; Kerry Bishé as Donna Clark; Mackenzie Davis as Cameron Howe.

Focus Features has shared the first trailer for THE YOUNG MESSIAH, hitting theaters in time for Easter on March 11, 2016. Get a first look below!

In this clip from her exclusive interview on THE DINNER PARTY SHOW WITH CHRISTOPHER RICE AND ERIC SHAW QUINN, literary icon ANNE RICE reveals that her next novel will feature the return of one of the most popular vampires of all time, Lestat de Lioncourt. Check out the video below!

Primary Stages will present the New York premiere of Motherhood Out Loud, conceived by Susan R. Rose and Joan Stein. Directed by Lisa Peterson, the cast will feature Mary Bacon, Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Randy Graff and James Lecesne. On press day, August 23, the cast spoke to Givenik about the new show. Hear what they have to say below!

Sam Scalamoni served as the Associate Director of Disney's Beauty and the Beast for more than three years, setting and maintaining companies on Broadway, the United Kingdom, Brazil, and Korea. He most recently served as the Associate Director for Elton John's recent Broadway musical Lestat based on Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. He brings that professional theatrical experience to the Fidelity FutureStage program as director of its performance production finale.