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Electric Entertainment, the LA-based production, distribution and post-production company, has acquired North American rights to crime-thriller Heavy, starring Sophie Turner (Game of Thrones) and Daniel Zovatto (Penny Dreadful: City of Angels)

Electric Entertainment and Arrowstorm Entertainment said Monday they’ll resume production in Serbia for the third season of the CW’s fantasy-adventure series The Outpost. Production was halted at the onset of the coronavirus outbreak in mid-March.

Dean Devlin, John Rogers and Chris Downey’s cult 2008 crime drama series Leverage is coming back with a new lead. IMDb TV, Amazon’s free, ad-supported streaming service, has ordered a Leverage reimagining, headlined by Noah Wyle in a reunion with Rogers and Devlin after their collaboration on The Librarian/The Librarians franchise. It marks the first major original series for IMDb TV, whose content team recently moved under the Amazon Studios umbrella.

For Dean Devlin, the idea of the new WGN series Almost Paradise came about 14 years ago during his honeymoon in Hawaii. He connected with the island and was intoxicated by island culture, island justice and island spirituality — and wanted to make a show set in Hawaii. His soulful connection to island life made sense considering he is of Filipino descent. With that in mind, the idea for the show shifted.

Chances are, if you're trying to escape something, that's the last thing you'll be able to do.

Veteran star Harvey Keitel has been in Malta recently, starring as a British army officer in Just Noise which is being sold at the AFM by Electric Entertainment.

Electric Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights to psychological thriller Penthouse A starring Bella Thorne and will launch international sales at AFM.

The Los Angeles-based production company Electric Entertainment has launched a new podcast network, Electric Surge, which will be home to a variety of shows, including The Rebel & The Rogue: A Star Wars Podcast.

“Buyers and viewers alike would want to tune in every week, or binge-watch the entire season because our series all take place in imaginative locations,” says Sonia Mehandjiyska, head of international distribution at Electric Entertainment. “Our TV lineup is showing audiences places and settings they rarely, if ever, see.”