Exclusive: Verve has signed Jeff Howard, best known for his work as a supervising producer on the Netflix horror series The Haunting of Hill House, and currently co-executive producer on an upcoming franchise at Netflix.
Howard is a veteran of the horror genre and a frequent collaborator of Mike Flanagan, and is exec producer on the filmmaker’s upcoming Netflix series Midnight Mass. Together they wrote such horror films as the Stephen King adaptation Gerald’s Game, Oculus, Ouija: Origin Of Evil, and Before I Wake. He is in development on Reparations, the script he wrote with Andre Owens that Screen Gems bought at year’s end.
Howard, who moves from Apa, continues to be repped by Brillstein Entertainment Partners and attorney Joel VanderKloot.
Howard is a veteran of the horror genre and a frequent collaborator of Mike Flanagan, and is exec producer on the filmmaker’s upcoming Netflix series Midnight Mass. Together they wrote such horror films as the Stephen King adaptation Gerald’s Game, Oculus, Ouija: Origin Of Evil, and Before I Wake. He is in development on Reparations, the script he wrote with Andre Owens that Screen Gems bought at year’s end.
Howard, who moves from Apa, continues to be repped by Brillstein Entertainment Partners and attorney Joel VanderKloot.
- 3/11/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: We hear that Screen Gems has preemptively bought Reparations, a script by Jeff Howard and Andre Owens described as an action heist movie interwoven with a socially conscious theme.
Various details about the script are being kept under wraps, but the pitch is: When a lost cache of Confederate gold falls into the wrong hands, an amateur crew comes together to get the gold and use it to fund long overdue reparations. A search for a director is currently underway. Craig Flores, who was behind last summer’s profitable Paramount hit Crawl, is producing under his Bread & Circuses Entertainment label. Crawl received a shout-out on the Viacom investor call Thursday from boss Bob Bakish as one of three hits from the Melrose lot to make money alongside Rocketman and Dora the Explorer. Crawl, off a budget of $13.5 million, yielded global ticket sales near $91M.
Flores’ feature credits include Sean Carter’s Keep Watching,...
Various details about the script are being kept under wraps, but the pitch is: When a lost cache of Confederate gold falls into the wrong hands, an amateur crew comes together to get the gold and use it to fund long overdue reparations. A search for a director is currently underway. Craig Flores, who was behind last summer’s profitable Paramount hit Crawl, is producing under his Bread & Circuses Entertainment label. Crawl received a shout-out on the Viacom investor call Thursday from boss Bob Bakish as one of three hits from the Melrose lot to make money alongside Rocketman and Dora the Explorer. Crawl, off a budget of $13.5 million, yielded global ticket sales near $91M.
Flores’ feature credits include Sean Carter’s Keep Watching,...
- 11/15/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
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