Power sells its new flagship dramas to Universal at LA screenings

The six new mini series, which head Power's significant drama slate at this year's LA Screenings, comprise the five VFX-laden End Of The World titles, each of which sees mankind pitted against a different "extinction level" catastrophe, and Power's action-thriller co-production Air Force One Is Down.

Power's deal with Universal Networks International Latin America encompasses: Air Force One Is Down, in which rogue Serbian militants hijack the US President's plane, starring Jeremy Sisto (Suburgatory, Law and Order), Linda Hamilton (Terminator 2), Rupert Graves (Sherlock, V For Vendetta), Jamie Thomas King (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) and Emilie de Ravin (Lost); cyber epic Delete, which charts the chillingly plausible catastrophic situation that unfolds when a global software system becomes self-aware and turns on mankind, penned by Stargate SG-1 writers Joesph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie, directed by Steve Barron (Merlin, Treasure Island) and starring Seth Green (Family Guy) and Janet Kidder (The Killing); Exploding Sun, in which a passenger spacecraft is sent hurtling towards the sun, threatening a collision that would unleash a solar flare powerful enough to blow Earth back into the Stone Age, starring David James Elliot (J.A.G.) and Julia Ormond (Mad Men) and Cat. 8, the story of a global defence breakthrough that becomes the irreversible catalyst in bringing about Armageddon, starring The Dark Knight's Matthew Modine.

Power also sold volcanic thriller Ring of Fire, which sees an oil drilling accident trigger a cataclysmic series of worldwide eruptions, starring Michael Vartan (Alias), Terry O'Quinn (Lost) and Lauren Lee Smith (CSI) and Eve of Destruction, in which the scientific discovery of a source of limitless energy threatens to destroy life as we know it, starring Christina Cox (The Chronicles of Riddick) and Aleks Paunovic (Battlestar Galactica).

Pepe Echegaray, Power's Senior Sales Representative for Latin America, said: ‘Since we launched our five End Of The World titles this year the response from the market has been excellent. I am so pleased to announce they have all been licensed alongside Air Force One Is Down pan regionally to such prestigious broadcasters during the Screenings’.

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