Andrew Sumner
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Sumner wrote for John Brown's comics news magazine, Speakeasy, in the late 80s. He was a movie critic for the NME
NME
The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...
, Vox and Future Publishing
Future Publishing
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's Total Film
Total Film
Total Film is a British film magazine published 13 times a year by Future Publishing. The magazine was launched in 1997 and offers film, DVD and Blu-ray news, reviews and features...
throughout the 1990s and wrote regularly for IPC Media
IPC Media
IPC Media , a wholly owned subsidiary of Time Inc., is a consumer magazine and digital publisher in the United Kingdom, with a large portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year.- Origins :...
's music and movie magazine, Uncut.
Sumner published various Emap
EMAP
Emap Limited is a British media company, specialising in the production of business-to-business magazines, and the organisation of business events and conferences...
magazines at this time and launched Celebrity Bodies, a title that caused a brief media sensation in the spring of 2001.
Sumner joined IPC Media
IPC Media
IPC Media , a wholly owned subsidiary of Time Inc., is a consumer magazine and digital publisher in the United Kingdom, with a large portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year.- Origins :...
as publisher of men's magazine Loaded in May 2002, also becoming publisher of Uncut in 2004. He was the launch publisher of IPC's men's weekly Nuts in 2004 and launched Uncut DVD in October 2005.
From May 2005 to December 2005, Sumner presented The Uncut Film on Turner Classic Movies (UK)
Turner Classic Movies (UK)
Turner Classic Movies is a subscription digital television channel featuring classic movies, mostly from the Turner Entertainment and Warner Bros. film libraries, which include many MGM, United Artists, RKO and Warner Bros. titles...
, a series of contemporary classic movies selected by Uncut that ran (uninterrupted and uncut) on TCM UK at 9pm Wednesdays.
Sumner became publishing director of IPC's celebrity weekly Now
NOW magazine (UK)
NOW is a British weekly entertainment magazine.It is a weekly magazine in the UK, with a regular circulation of 384,356. It is a mix of celebrity news, gossip and fashion and is primarily aimed at women...
in January 2006, launching www.nowmagazine.co.uk in August of that year.
Sumner currently runs Titan Merchandise, a division of the Titan Entertainment Group
Nick Landau
Nick Landau is a British media figure, currently co-owner of the Titan Entertainment Group, which publishes Titan Magazines and Titan Books.-2000 AD:...
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