AMC has formally bought the rights to Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles and Mayfair Witches.
The cable community immediately introduced that it has entered into an settlement to amass Anne Rice’s main literary works, The Vampire Chronicles Collection and The Lives of the Mayfair Witches Collection, encompassing 18 titles, together with such beloved and celebrated works as Interview With The Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, and The Witching Hour.
AMC Networks will maintain the excellent rights for this world famend and globally coveted mental property to develop for its personal tv networks and streaming companies below the AMC Studios umbrella, in addition to exterior accomplice licensing, with Anne Rice and son Christopher Rice serving as government producers on all sequence and movies.
Collectively, The Vampire Chronicles and The Lives of the Mayfair sequence have bought greater than 150 million copies worldwide.
Rolin Jones (Perry Mason, Friday Evening Lights), who just lately signed an total improvement cope with AMC Studios, might be immediately concerned in creating initiatives based mostly on the Anne Rice catalog for tv.
“There is no such thing as a scarcity of content material in immediately’s aggressive setting, however confirmed IP that has captivated thousands and thousands of followers around the globe is one thing very particular and uncommon, and that’s what Anne Rice has created,” stated Sarah Barnett, president of AMC Networks Leisure Group and AMC Studios.
“These exceptional tales and characters are huge of their enchantment and we’re privileged to take over stewardship of those legendary works and collaborate with a expertise like Rolin Jones to search out methods for brand spanking new generations of followers to expertise these worlds.”
“It is all the time been my dream to see the worlds of my two greatest sequence united below a single roof in order that filmmakers may discover the expansive and interconnected universe of my vampires and witches,” stated Anne Rice.
“That dream is now a actuality, and the end result is likely one of the most vital and thrilling offers of my lengthy profession.”
The Anne Rice catalog that AMC Networks is buying is The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Story of the Physique Thief, Memnoch The Satan, The Vampire Armand, Pandora, Vittorio the Vampire, Blood and Gold, Prince Lestat, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, and Blood Communion: A Story of Prince Lestat, The Lives Of The Mayfair Witches Collection: The Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos, and The Vampire Chronicles/The Lives Of The Mayfair Witches- Crossover Novels: Merrick, Blackwood Farm and Blood Canticle.
“AMC Studios is chargeable for creating among the most iconic tv sequence of the fashionable period and has, at instances, single-handedly outlined this period we name ‘peak TV,'” added Christopher Rice.
“All of the members of Workforce Anne, together with my long-term producing accomplice, New York Instances Bestselling novelist Eric Shaw Quinn, are each thrilled and comforted to know that a few of our most cherished kin, from the vampire Lestat and the witch Rowan Mayfair, to the paranormal investigators on the Order of the Talamasca and the highly effective spirit Lasher, at the moment are safely within the fingers of those vastly completed innovators who possess each international attain and deep reservoirs of expertise.”
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