58 October 2014 Doing Lunch at Hollywood Studios of Jeff Schlesinger, president of WB Worldwide TV Distribution. Tuesday was Sony Pictures Studios’ turn to serve lunch in Culver City. The studio had nine new series to screen, including three sitcoms and a “dramedy” (comedic drama). As in previous years, breakfast and screenings for the Latin buyers were held inside Soundstage 22, while lunch for some 200 guests was held in the nearby [Frank] Capra Park gardens. The menu was unusual, just like the series, presented under the theme “Light It Up.” There were BBQ chicken sandwiches, short rib hamburgers, truffle macaroni and cheese, French fries and grilled vegetables. For dessert there was apple cobbler and chocolate chip cookies. Similar to Warner Bros., no alcoholic beverages were served to any of the groups, only soft drinks, there were fresh tropical fruits and an assortment of fruit tarts. The catering was prepared by Café Bon Appetite with their chef, Peter Alfaro, based on the Disney Studios lot. No alcoholic beverages were served to some 200 Latin buyers, but other buyers enjoyed wine. Given that the theme of the event was Star Wars, guests were greeted by Darth Vader and a stormtrooper. Among the drama series screened was How To Get Away With Murder, a drama about law school students who become involved in a murder case. By Dom Serafini water, coffee and tea. One unusual aspect of the Screenings was that three of the series presented — the “dramedy” Mozart In The Jungle, the sitcomTransparent and the drama The After — were produced on behalf of Amazon, not for traditional TV networks. The stars from the cast of two series produced in Spanish — En la boca del lobo and Señorita Polvora— were on-hand to greet guests. Wednesday was our final screenings and lunch at Disney in Burbank, which presented 12 new series including six sitcoms (only four were fully screened), at the studio’s Main Theatre, while the lunch was held in a reserved wing of the studio’s cafeteria. Themenuwas quite eclectic: pasta aglio and olio, rice, herb grilled chicken paillard and grilled skirt steak. As a side dish: spinach salad, chopped salad and baked potatoes. For dessert, VideoAgewith various executives at the studio lunches: NBCUniversal Int’l TV Distribution’s SVP Marketing and Communications, Pauline Bohm CBSSI’s SVP for Italy, Giovanni Pedde Sony Pictures TV Int’l’s SVP LATAM Alexander Marin TwentiethCenturyFoxTVDistribution’sSVPLATAM&Caribbean,ElieWahba Disney Media Distribution Latin America’s SVP Distribution and Production LATAM Fernando Barbosa, VP Henri Ringel (Continued from Page 56)
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