Alcon Entertainment

As the weeks go on.

Yeah, I don't have the budget right here, but as the weeks go on and to your point of it also, it's a Columbia Pictures, Alcon Entertainment is the studio to your earlier point.

They reproduced some of the January 6th Storming of the Capitol scenes.

That can't have been cheap, as I mentioned.

Social Reckoning opened to 5.5 million in the U.S., $9 million globally on a reported $30 million record.

Production spend there at Sony and Alcon, kind of below all expectations.

Chris, what happened to the social reckoning this weekend?

It never got to the point where why does this exist was answered, I feel like.

Could you walk us through how you got involved with this project?

So I had heard that Alcon, who made 2049 and who are the guardians of all things Blade Runner, were thinking about doing a television show set in the world.

They didn't have a specific mandate.

They were meeting with a bunch of writers.

What's on the ITV Studios scripted slate for MIPCOM this year? First up, I believe, is a six-part drama, First Woman.

That's a lunar thriller from ITV Studios' own Mammoth Screen, makers of Code of Silence, co-produced with Blade Runner owner Alcon Entertainment and Germany's ZDF.

That's destined for ITV.

Tell us about that show.

And I was hooked up with that with Titan Books, my bad buddy Jonathan Mayberry.

And then... titanbooks started to work with alcon entertainment the producers of blade runner um and and several other things and they had this great idea where they've got ideas for original ip but if you hire a screenwriter at union rates that's like you know that's at least six figures it gets up pretty high and then if they don't get funding or make it then they've got to they've invested a lot into a project that doesn't get made that's kind of a straight law so their idea was well we're going to hire sci-fi horror novelists to write these we'll give them the idea work on an outline together and then they'll write the novel then they'll use the novel to pitch both internally and externally to get people attached to it and to get funding and hopefully get a movie made

right and worst case scenario you have a cool novel

Yeah.

So what I'm going to do is play for you a little bit of the beginning of that book so you can get a flavor for it and see if it's something you're interested in.

The book is published by Titan and Alcon Entertainment.

Recorded Books is the one who did the audiobook for this, and they were kind enough to give us permission to run these files for you.

I will read you the synopsis of Beast Beyond the River, and then you can listen to Ray tickle your ears with his deep, mellifluous voice.