Blueprint Expands Team

LOS ANGELES/TORONTO, March 27: Blueprint Entertainment has
added two new executives to its operations as it looks to expand its production
and development capabilities: Marla Ginsburg and Ellie Hannibal.

Marla Ginsburg joins Blueprint as senior VP, where she will
be responsible for developing, packaging and managing a slate of content
targeting both traditional television platforms and new media platforms,
focusing on the U.S. and international marketplaces. She will jointly report to
Blueprint’s founders, John Morayniss (chairman and CEO) and Noreen Halpern
(president). Ginsburg spent 15 years in Europe, running the international
television division for French studio Gaumont and working with such companies
as Canal+, TF1 and M6, before returning to the U.S. where she worked as a
consultant with a number of film, television and internet companies including
GoFish, Kaplan Thaler Agency, Landscape and MGM. While at Gaumont, Ginsburg was
responsible for developing and executive producing Highlander: The Series. She also developed La Femme Nikita based on the feature film by Luc Besson.

Ellie Hannibal comes on board as SVP of creative affairs,
where she will primarily focus on development and production of one hour and
half-hour television series for the U.S. cable and broadcast networks. Hannibal
will report to Halpern. Previously, she was the head of development for Rick
Berman’s Paramount based small screen shingle, where she developed programming
for his self-titled company. Prior to that, she was SVP for Jersey Television,
where she was involved in all aspects of development and production for
Jersey’s slate of comedy, drama, reality and long-form programming.