IFC Films has acquired from Topic Studios the North American rights to “The Nowhere Inn,” the film starring, co-written by and centered on indie rock guitarist St. Vincent.
Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent, wrote the screenplay with “Portlandia” star and fellow musician Carrie Brownstein. The film is a genre-bending mockumentary of sorts that premiered at Sundance in the Midnight section back in 2020. IFC will now release “The Nowhere Inn” later this fall.
“The Nowhere Inn” is a metafictional story about how real-life friends Clark and Brownstein decide to make a documentary film about St. Vincent’s tour that Brownstein would direct. The movie within the movie examines St. Vincent’s music, touring life and public persona behind the scenes. But they quickly discover that in their effort to make the film and understand the person behind the St. Vincent guise, the real Annie Clark and the stage persona of St.
Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent, wrote the screenplay with “Portlandia” star and fellow musician Carrie Brownstein. The film is a genre-bending mockumentary of sorts that premiered at Sundance in the Midnight section back in 2020. IFC will now release “The Nowhere Inn” later this fall.
“The Nowhere Inn” is a metafictional story about how real-life friends Clark and Brownstein decide to make a documentary film about St. Vincent’s tour that Brownstein would direct. The movie within the movie examines St. Vincent’s music, touring life and public persona behind the scenes. But they quickly discover that in their effort to make the film and understand the person behind the St. Vincent guise, the real Annie Clark and the stage persona of St.
- 3/1/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Deadline has learned that IFC Films has just taken North American rights to The Nowhere Inn from Topic Studios. The pic, a fractured commentary on reality, identity, and authenticity, is produced, written by, and stars Carrie Brownstein and Grammy winner Annie “St. Vincent” Clark. The Nowhere Inn also reps the feature directorial debut of frequent Portlandia collaborator and scribe Bill Benz.
The movie, which made its world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, marks the first feature length film in which Clark has simultaneously produced, starred and composed all the original music. A fall 2021 release is currently planned.
The Nowhere Inn is a metafictional account of two creative forces banding together to make a documentary about St. Vincent’s music, touring life, and public persona. But they quickly discover unpredictable forces lurking within subject and filmmaker that threaten to derail the friendship, the project, and the duo’s creative lives.
The movie, which made its world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, marks the first feature length film in which Clark has simultaneously produced, starred and composed all the original music. A fall 2021 release is currently planned.
The Nowhere Inn is a metafictional account of two creative forces banding together to make a documentary about St. Vincent’s music, touring life, and public persona. But they quickly discover unpredictable forces lurking within subject and filmmaker that threaten to derail the friendship, the project, and the duo’s creative lives.
- 3/1/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
A small round of layoffs has hit Topic Studios this week in the television division, insiders familiar with the company told Variety.
One of the insiders said three executives at the New York-based producer and distributor are out: senior vice president of scripted programming and Viacom alum Lisa Leingang, vice president of development Mona Panchal and scripted programming director Kate Zabinsky.
A spokesperson for Topic Studios declined to comment on personnel, but said the scripted television division is in the process of relocating to Los Angeles. Topic operates as an arm of Pierre Omidyar’s First Look Media, and has been making cost-cutting moves since HBO vet Maria Zuckerman replaced Adam Pincus as executive vice president in May.
In late June, First Look shuttered the studio’s digital publication Topic Magazine, dedicated to nonfiction storytelling, and cut off funding to the political cartoon website the Nib. In mid-July, New York...
One of the insiders said three executives at the New York-based producer and distributor are out: senior vice president of scripted programming and Viacom alum Lisa Leingang, vice president of development Mona Panchal and scripted programming director Kate Zabinsky.
A spokesperson for Topic Studios declined to comment on personnel, but said the scripted television division is in the process of relocating to Los Angeles. Topic operates as an arm of Pierre Omidyar’s First Look Media, and has been making cost-cutting moves since HBO vet Maria Zuckerman replaced Adam Pincus as executive vice president in May.
In late June, First Look shuttered the studio’s digital publication Topic Magazine, dedicated to nonfiction storytelling, and cut off funding to the political cartoon website the Nib. In mid-July, New York...
- 9/21/2019
- by Matt Donnelly and Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all worldwide rights, excluding France and German-speaking Europe, to Michael Angelo Covino’s buddy comedy “The Climb.”
The film premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Un Certain Regard Heart Prize alongside “A Brother’s Love” on Friday.
Covino directed, co-wrote (with Kyle Marvin) and stars in the film with Marvin, Gayle Rankin, Talia Balsam, George Wendt and Judith Godrèche.
The story centers on two best friends who share a close bond — until one sleeps with the other’s fiancée. The movie follows the tumultuous, but enduring relationship between the men across many years of laughter, heartbreak and rage.
Topic Studios produced and financed the movie. The producers are Noah Lang, Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin. The executive producers are Michael Bloom, Ryan Heller Adam Pincus and Gilda Moratti.
“To know my first movie will open...
The film premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Un Certain Regard Heart Prize alongside “A Brother’s Love” on Friday.
Covino directed, co-wrote (with Kyle Marvin) and stars in the film with Marvin, Gayle Rankin, Talia Balsam, George Wendt and Judith Godrèche.
The story centers on two best friends who share a close bond — until one sleeps with the other’s fiancée. The movie follows the tumultuous, but enduring relationship between the men across many years of laughter, heartbreak and rage.
Topic Studios produced and financed the movie. The producers are Noah Lang, Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin. The executive producers are Michael Bloom, Ryan Heller Adam Pincus and Gilda Moratti.
“To know my first movie will open...
- 5/24/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
The Match Factory announces territory sales on The Traitor.
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up worldwide rights excluding France and German-speaking Europe to Michael Angelo Covino’s comedy and Un Certain Regard selection The Climb.
The distributor additionally confirmed on Friday (24) that it had acquired Marco Bellocchio’s Competition entry The Traitor from Match Factory, which announced a string of territory sales.
Covino and Kyle Marvin wrote The Climb based on their own experiences. The story tells of best friends and cycling enthusiasts whose close bond is strained when one sleeps with the other’s girlfriend. Covino and Marvin star alongside Gayle Rankin,...
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up worldwide rights excluding France and German-speaking Europe to Michael Angelo Covino’s comedy and Un Certain Regard selection The Climb.
The distributor additionally confirmed on Friday (24) that it had acquired Marco Bellocchio’s Competition entry The Traitor from Match Factory, which announced a string of territory sales.
Covino and Kyle Marvin wrote The Climb based on their own experiences. The story tells of best friends and cycling enthusiasts whose close bond is strained when one sleeps with the other’s girlfriend. Covino and Marvin star alongside Gayle Rankin,...
- 5/24/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired worldwide rights excluding France and German-speaking Europe to The Climb, the Michael Angelo Covino-directed buddy comedy that premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival.
The deal comes after Spc acquired Marco Bellocchio’s The Traitor, another Cannes pic, after its premiere Thursday.
Covino wrote the screenplay for The Climb with Kyle Marvin, and the two star along with Gayle Rankin, Talia Balsam, George Wendt and Judith Godrèche. They play best friends who share a close bond — until Mike sleeps with Kyle’s fiancée. The pic about a tumultuous but enduring relationship between two men across many years of laughter, heartbreak and rage. It is also the story of real-life best friends who turn their profound connection into a rich, humane and frequently uproarious film about the boundaries (or lack thereof) in all close friendships.
Topic Studios produced and financed the film.
The deal comes after Spc acquired Marco Bellocchio’s The Traitor, another Cannes pic, after its premiere Thursday.
Covino wrote the screenplay for The Climb with Kyle Marvin, and the two star along with Gayle Rankin, Talia Balsam, George Wendt and Judith Godrèche. They play best friends who share a close bond — until Mike sleeps with Kyle’s fiancée. The pic about a tumultuous but enduring relationship between two men across many years of laughter, heartbreak and rage. It is also the story of real-life best friends who turn their profound connection into a rich, humane and frequently uproarious film about the boundaries (or lack thereof) in all close friendships.
Topic Studios produced and financed the film.
- 5/24/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all worldwide rights to Michael Angelo Covino’s “The Climb” (excluding France and German-speaking Europe), the distributor announced Friday.
The film premiered at this month’s Cannes Film Festival and stars Covino, Kyle Marvin, Gayle Rankin, Talia Balsam, George Wendt and Judith Godrèche. Covino and Marvin wrote the screenplay.
The film follows Kyle and Mike, who are best friends — until Mike sleeps with Kyle’s fiancée. Topic Studios produced and financed the film. Covino, Marvin and Noah Lang produced, while Michael Bloom, Ryan Heller Adam Pincus and Gilda Moratti executive produced.
Also Read: Cannes Report, Day 10: 'Mektoub, My Love' Trolls, 'The Traitor' Sells Out
“To know my first movie will open with the same logo as so many of my favorites is hard to fathom,” Covino said, offering praise for Sony Classics co-presidents Tom Bernard and Michael Barker. “I can’t wait to work with Tom,...
The film premiered at this month’s Cannes Film Festival and stars Covino, Kyle Marvin, Gayle Rankin, Talia Balsam, George Wendt and Judith Godrèche. Covino and Marvin wrote the screenplay.
The film follows Kyle and Mike, who are best friends — until Mike sleeps with Kyle’s fiancée. Topic Studios produced and financed the film. Covino, Marvin and Noah Lang produced, while Michael Bloom, Ryan Heller Adam Pincus and Gilda Moratti executive produced.
Also Read: Cannes Report, Day 10: 'Mektoub, My Love' Trolls, 'The Traitor' Sells Out
“To know my first movie will open with the same logo as so many of my favorites is hard to fathom,” Covino said, offering praise for Sony Classics co-presidents Tom Bernard and Michael Barker. “I can’t wait to work with Tom,...
- 5/24/2019
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
The title is born out of Covino’s short film of the same name which screened in Sundance in 2018.
Memento Films International (Mfi) has acquired international sales rights to Us filmmaker Michael Covino’s comedy-drama The Climb ahead of its premiere in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25).
Born out of Covino’s short film of the same name, which screened in Sundance in 2018, the feature revolves around the enduring but tumultuous relationship between best friends Kyle and Mike.
The pair share a life-long close bond but this is shaken to the core when Mike sleeps with Kyle’s fiancée.
Memento Films International (Mfi) has acquired international sales rights to Us filmmaker Michael Covino’s comedy-drama The Climb ahead of its premiere in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25).
Born out of Covino’s short film of the same name, which screened in Sundance in 2018, the feature revolves around the enduring but tumultuous relationship between best friends Kyle and Mike.
The pair share a life-long close bond but this is shaken to the core when Mike sleeps with Kyle’s fiancée.
- 4/24/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Adam Pincus, First Look Media’s executive VP of programming and content, has left the New York-based film and TV company.
A First Look spokesperson told Variety that Pincus is no longer with the organization, founded by eBay billionaire Pierre Omidyar, and that a search is underway for his replacement. Reasons for his exit are unknown.
Pincus did not immediately respond to request for comment. Interim leadership was not clear at the studio behind films like Oscar best picture winner “Spotlight,” the acclaimed “Leave No Trace” starring Ben Foster and directed by Debra Granik, and the Sony release “Roman J. Israel, Esq.,” with Denzel Washington. In early 2017 the studio brought in AMC and Paramount TV executive Jason Fisher to head production, as well as Ryan Heller to take the lead on acquisitions.
In addition to film and TV arms, First Look counts an editorial and activist division that includes web publication the Intercept,...
A First Look spokesperson told Variety that Pincus is no longer with the organization, founded by eBay billionaire Pierre Omidyar, and that a search is underway for his replacement. Reasons for his exit are unknown.
Pincus did not immediately respond to request for comment. Interim leadership was not clear at the studio behind films like Oscar best picture winner “Spotlight,” the acclaimed “Leave No Trace” starring Ben Foster and directed by Debra Granik, and the Sony release “Roman J. Israel, Esq.,” with Denzel Washington. In early 2017 the studio brought in AMC and Paramount TV executive Jason Fisher to head production, as well as Ryan Heller to take the lead on acquisitions.
In addition to film and TV arms, First Look counts an editorial and activist division that includes web publication the Intercept,...
- 10/4/2018
- by Matt Donnelly and Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Grey Matter Productions and Topic Studios have set writer-director Oren Moverman to adapt The Good Girl, the debut novel from Mary Kubica, into a thriller drama series. Topic’s Adam Pincus and Lisa Leingang, along with Grey Matter’s Lawrence Grey and Ben Everard, will executive produce.
The Good Girl is a twisting and suspenseful thriller about the kidnapping-gone-wrong of Mia Dennett, the perfect daughter of a prominent Chicago judge. When she is abducted as part of a wild extortion plot, her kidnapper unexpectedly decides to hide her in a remote cabin for months, evading both the police and the criminals who want to use her to get to her father. Alternating timelines and the shifting points of view of Mia’s mother, her kidnapper, and the detective tasked with finding her, constantly circle the question of what really happened to Mia and how, even in the perfect family, nothing is as it seems.
The Good Girl is a twisting and suspenseful thriller about the kidnapping-gone-wrong of Mia Dennett, the perfect daughter of a prominent Chicago judge. When she is abducted as part of a wild extortion plot, her kidnapper unexpectedly decides to hide her in a remote cabin for months, evading both the police and the criminals who want to use her to get to her father. Alternating timelines and the shifting points of view of Mia’s mother, her kidnapper, and the detective tasked with finding her, constantly circle the question of what really happened to Mia and how, even in the perfect family, nothing is as it seems.
- 9/13/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Grey Matter Productions and Topic Studios are set to produce a new television drama series based on Mary Kubica’s novel “The Good Girl,” with Oren Moverman adapting. Topic Studios’ Adam Pincus and Lisa Leingang will executive produce with Grey Matter’s Lawrence Grey and Ben Everard. Grey Matter’s Seana Diemer Iwanyk sourced the project.
“The Good Girl” tells the story of the kidnapping-gone-wrong of Mia Dennett, the perfect daughter of a prominent Chicago judge. When she is abducted as part of a wild extortion plot, her kidnapper unexpectedly decides to hide her in a remote cabin for months, evading both the police and the criminals who want to use her to get to her father. Alternating timelines and the shifting points of view of Mia’s mother, her kidnapper, and the detective tasked with finding her, constantly circle the question of what really happened to Mia and how,...
“The Good Girl” tells the story of the kidnapping-gone-wrong of Mia Dennett, the perfect daughter of a prominent Chicago judge. When she is abducted as part of a wild extortion plot, her kidnapper unexpectedly decides to hide her in a remote cabin for months, evading both the police and the criminals who want to use her to get to her father. Alternating timelines and the shifting points of view of Mia’s mother, her kidnapper, and the detective tasked with finding her, constantly circle the question of what really happened to Mia and how,...
- 9/13/2018
- by Daniel Holloway
- Variety Film + TV
Mary Kubica’s source material centres on botched abduction.
Oren Moverman will adapt and direct the TV series The Good Girl for Topic Studios and Grey Matter Productions.
Based on Mary Kubica’s debut novel, the story tells of the botched kidnapping of a prominent Chicago judge.
Topic Studios’ Adam Pincus and Lisa Leingang, along with Grey Matter’s Lawrence Grey and Ben Everard, will serve as executive producers. Grey Matter’s Seana Diemer Iwanyk sourced the material.
Moverman earned a 2019 best original screenplay nod for The Messenger. His directing credits include Rampart and The Dinner.
“Oren Moverman is one...
Oren Moverman will adapt and direct the TV series The Good Girl for Topic Studios and Grey Matter Productions.
Based on Mary Kubica’s debut novel, the story tells of the botched kidnapping of a prominent Chicago judge.
Topic Studios’ Adam Pincus and Lisa Leingang, along with Grey Matter’s Lawrence Grey and Ben Everard, will serve as executive producers. Grey Matter’s Seana Diemer Iwanyk sourced the material.
Moverman earned a 2019 best original screenplay nod for The Messenger. His directing credits include Rampart and The Dinner.
“Oren Moverman is one...
- 9/13/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: John Lyons, the former Focus Features President of Production who steered such Oscar-winning films as Milk, Brokeback Mountain and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, has signed a multi-year first look production deal at Topic Studios.
Under the agreement, Lyons will develop and produce feature film projects for the Oscar-winning Spotlight studio to finance. At Focus, Lyons was also behind such acclaimed features as Joel and Ethan Coen’s Burn After Reading and A Serious Man, Cary Fukanaga’s Sin Nombre and Jane Eyre. Lyons’ independent producing credits include Paul Thomas Anderson’s Hard Eight and Boogie Nights, Peter Hedges’ Pieces of April, and Universal’s Sisters as well as the HBO series The Young Pope with Paolo Sorrentino.
“John has been involved with so many great films and filmmakers, from the Coen brothers and Raising Arizona to Paul Thomas Anderson and Boogie Nights, to all his work during...
Under the agreement, Lyons will develop and produce feature film projects for the Oscar-winning Spotlight studio to finance. At Focus, Lyons was also behind such acclaimed features as Joel and Ethan Coen’s Burn After Reading and A Serious Man, Cary Fukanaga’s Sin Nombre and Jane Eyre. Lyons’ independent producing credits include Paul Thomas Anderson’s Hard Eight and Boogie Nights, Peter Hedges’ Pieces of April, and Universal’s Sisters as well as the HBO series The Young Pope with Paolo Sorrentino.
“John has been involved with so many great films and filmmakers, from the Coen brothers and Raising Arizona to Paul Thomas Anderson and Boogie Nights, to all his work during...
- 9/4/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Roster includes crime series Merchant Of Doubt, feature America Reloaded.
Topic Studios on Wednesday (August 22) announced it has put into development a slate of film and TV projects based on articles from its First Look Studios stablemate The Intercept.
The roster includes the feature America Reloaded, based on Ryan Devereaux and Trevor Aaronson’s article that tells the story of a fake documentary devised by the FBI about the family of cattle rancher Cliven Bundy, as part of a larger effort to build criminal cases against the Bundys and their supporters, who engaged in a stand-off with law enforcement at...
Topic Studios on Wednesday (August 22) announced it has put into development a slate of film and TV projects based on articles from its First Look Studios stablemate The Intercept.
The roster includes the feature America Reloaded, based on Ryan Devereaux and Trevor Aaronson’s article that tells the story of a fake documentary devised by the FBI about the family of cattle rancher Cliven Bundy, as part of a larger effort to build criminal cases against the Bundys and their supporters, who engaged in a stand-off with law enforcement at...
- 8/22/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Topic Studios is set to finance and produce The Climb, a comedic drama from Kyle Marvin and Michael Covino based on their short film that debuted at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. The film tells the story of the friendship between two lifelong friends (Covino and Marvin will also star) spanning several years, marriages, heartbreaks and conflicts. It is now set to begin production in August.
Topic had already acquired the short for its Topic.com. The feature treatment will expand on the story and characters, and Covino will direct in his feature debut. He and Marvin co-wrote the script, and the pair is producing with Topic Studios.
“We loved The Climb when we saw the short at Sundance, and knew Mike and Kyle had a lot more to say about their relationship, with a truly unique voice,” said Adam Pincus, Evp Programming & Content for Topic Studios/Flm. “We think audiences...
Topic had already acquired the short for its Topic.com. The feature treatment will expand on the story and characters, and Covino will direct in his feature debut. He and Marvin co-wrote the script, and the pair is producing with Topic Studios.
“We loved The Climb when we saw the short at Sundance, and knew Mike and Kyle had a lot more to say about their relationship, with a truly unique voice,” said Adam Pincus, Evp Programming & Content for Topic Studios/Flm. “We think audiences...
- 6/28/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Topic Studios has come on board to finance and produce “The Climb,” a comedic drama from the filmmaking team of Kyle Marvin and Michael Covino.
“The Climb” expands on the story and characters from the short film of the same title that premiered in the narrative competition at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and was acquired by Topic for its digital storytelling platform, Topic.com. In his feature film directorial debut, Covino will direct from a script he wrote with Marvin.
The film tells the story of the friendship between two lifelong friends, played by Covino and Marvin, over several chapters and spanning numerous years, marriages, heartbreaks and conflicts.
“We loved ‘The Climb’ when we saw the short at Sundance, and knew Mike and Kyle had a lot more to say about their relationship, with a truly unique voice,” said Adam Pincus, exec VP for Topic Studios. “We think audiences are going to love their oversharing,...
“The Climb” expands on the story and characters from the short film of the same title that premiered in the narrative competition at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and was acquired by Topic for its digital storytelling platform, Topic.com. In his feature film directorial debut, Covino will direct from a script he wrote with Marvin.
The film tells the story of the friendship between two lifelong friends, played by Covino and Marvin, over several chapters and spanning numerous years, marriages, heartbreaks and conflicts.
“We loved ‘The Climb’ when we saw the short at Sundance, and knew Mike and Kyle had a lot more to say about their relationship, with a truly unique voice,” said Adam Pincus, exec VP for Topic Studios. “We think audiences are going to love their oversharing,...
- 6/28/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Production scheduled to kick off in August.
Topic Studios will finance and produce comedy drama The Climb from filmmaking team Kyle Marvin and Michael Covino, based on the short film of the same name that premiered in Sundance.
The Climb chronicles an epic lifelong friendship over several chapters and spans numerous years, marriages, heartbreaks and conflicts. Marvin and Covino star.
Topic acquired the short at this year’s festival in Park City for its digital storytelling platform, Topic.com. Covino will direct his feature directorial debut from a screenplay he wrote with Marvin.
“We loved The Climb when we saw the short at Sundance,...
Topic Studios will finance and produce comedy drama The Climb from filmmaking team Kyle Marvin and Michael Covino, based on the short film of the same name that premiered in Sundance.
The Climb chronicles an epic lifelong friendship over several chapters and spans numerous years, marriages, heartbreaks and conflicts. Marvin and Covino star.
Topic acquired the short at this year’s festival in Park City for its digital storytelling platform, Topic.com. Covino will direct his feature directorial debut from a screenplay he wrote with Marvin.
“We loved The Climb when we saw the short at Sundance,...
- 6/28/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
As viewers continue to balance increasing television options on shrinking screens, the Emmys have begun to celebrate exemplary content tailor-made for rapid consumption with its short- form categories. Likewise, network executives behind this burgeoning digital content are recognizing the importance of talent, both on and off camera, who can successfully jump from one platform to another.
For AMC’s Lyle Underkoffler, senior VP of new digital business, the key to ensuring talent will resonate both on its long-form programming, like “Fear the Walking Dead,” and on its short-form content like the Emmy-nominated “Fear the Walking Dead: Passage,” is to keep enough of the talent in-house in order to maintain a through-line for its shorter spinoffs and their parent series.
“What we allowed [with “Passage”] is folks on the show to expand their creative capacities to a different location and a different setting that wouldn’t work in the show itself,” Underkoffler says.
For AMC’s Lyle Underkoffler, senior VP of new digital business, the key to ensuring talent will resonate both on its long-form programming, like “Fear the Walking Dead,” and on its short-form content like the Emmy-nominated “Fear the Walking Dead: Passage,” is to keep enough of the talent in-house in order to maintain a through-line for its shorter spinoffs and their parent series.
“What we allowed [with “Passage”] is folks on the show to expand their creative capacities to a different location and a different setting that wouldn’t work in the show itself,” Underkoffler says.
- 6/19/2018
- by Ellis Clopton
- Variety Film + TV
Distributors plan autumn release.
Roadside Attractions and Topic Studios have partnered on North American rights to dark comedy The Oath starring Tiffany Haddish and Ike Barinholtz.
The film from QC Entertainment and first time director Barinholtz and David Stassen’s 23/34 Productions centres on a married couple who hold two federal agents captive over the Thanksgiving holidays.
Barinholtz write the screenplay and the cast includes John Cho, Carrie Brownstein, Billy Magnussen, Meredith Hagner, Jon Barinholtz, Nora Dunn, and Chris Ellis.
Sean McKittrick and Ray Mansfield of QC Entertainment are producing The Oath with Barinholtz and David Stassen of 23/34 Pictures, and Andrew Robinson of Aperture Media Productions.
Roadside Attractions and Topic Studios have partnered on North American rights to dark comedy The Oath starring Tiffany Haddish and Ike Barinholtz.
The film from QC Entertainment and first time director Barinholtz and David Stassen’s 23/34 Productions centres on a married couple who hold two federal agents captive over the Thanksgiving holidays.
Barinholtz write the screenplay and the cast includes John Cho, Carrie Brownstein, Billy Magnussen, Meredith Hagner, Jon Barinholtz, Nora Dunn, and Chris Ellis.
Sean McKittrick and Ray Mansfield of QC Entertainment are producing The Oath with Barinholtz and David Stassen of 23/34 Pictures, and Andrew Robinson of Aperture Media Productions.
- 6/13/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Roadside Attractions announced on Wednesday that the studio has partnered with Topic Studios to acquire North American rights to Ike Barinholtz’s hilariously dark directorial debut “The Oath.”
The film, from QC Entertainment and Barinholtz as well as David Stassen’s 23/34 Productions, stars 2017 breakout star Tiffany Haddish along with Barinholtz.
Roadside is eyeing a fall release for the film.
“We are thrilled to partner with Roadside Attractions to bring ‘The Oath’ to audiences everywhere,” said Topic executive vice president of programming and content Adam Pincus in a statement. “Ike’s film flips the traditional Thanksgiving table into a sharp, entertaining statement that’s all too relatable given the times we find ourselves in.”
Also Read: James Bond 25 Distribution Rights Go to MGM Domestically and Universal Overseas
Based on an script penned by Barinholtz, “The Oath” centers around a man (Barinholtz) and his wife (Haddish) whose Thanksgiving takes a turn when...
The film, from QC Entertainment and Barinholtz as well as David Stassen’s 23/34 Productions, stars 2017 breakout star Tiffany Haddish along with Barinholtz.
Roadside is eyeing a fall release for the film.
“We are thrilled to partner with Roadside Attractions to bring ‘The Oath’ to audiences everywhere,” said Topic executive vice president of programming and content Adam Pincus in a statement. “Ike’s film flips the traditional Thanksgiving table into a sharp, entertaining statement that’s all too relatable given the times we find ourselves in.”
Also Read: James Bond 25 Distribution Rights Go to MGM Domestically and Universal Overseas
Based on an script penned by Barinholtz, “The Oath” centers around a man (Barinholtz) and his wife (Haddish) whose Thanksgiving takes a turn when...
- 6/13/2018
- by Trey Williams
- The Wrap
“I hope James Mattis sees this film,” says Michael Epstein, director of House 2, a feature doc about the Haditha massacre and the subsequent criminal investigation, which was the most expensive in Marine history. “I hope he realizes truly how fucked up it is and goes in and fixes it. Now as Secretary of Defense, he’s in a position to something, he can find out what really happened and hopefully he really will.”
House 2 tells the story of a criminal defense attorney and an NCIS special agent turned whistleblower who seek to exonerate a Marine charged with 18 counts of murder in Haditha, Iraq, and, in so doing, uncover the truth about one of the furthest-reaching cover-ups in U.S. military history.
The documentary, which is playing at the Tribeca Film Festival, saw Epstein join the defense team of Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, one of eight Marines charged in a civilian...
House 2 tells the story of a criminal defense attorney and an NCIS special agent turned whistleblower who seek to exonerate a Marine charged with 18 counts of murder in Haditha, Iraq, and, in so doing, uncover the truth about one of the furthest-reaching cover-ups in U.S. military history.
The documentary, which is playing at the Tribeca Film Festival, saw Epstein join the defense team of Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, one of eight Marines charged in a civilian...
- 4/24/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Studio deal excludes France on Debra Granik follow-up to Winter’s Bone.
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (Spwa) has pounced on all international rights excluding France to Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace.
Granik’s follow-up to Winter’s Bone premiered on Saturday night in Premieres and centres on a father and daughter living off the grid. Ben Foster and newcomer Thomasin Harcourt McKenzieas star. Bron Creative and Topic Studios produced.
Winter’s Bone won the grand jury prize back in Sundance 2010 and went on to earn four Oscar nods including one for best picture and another for the film’s then-unknown star, Jennifer Lawrence.
The deal excludes North America. Endeavor Content and Bron’s Adam Davids and Anjay Nagpal brokered the deal on behalf of the filmmakers with Spwa’s Michael Helfand and Jon Freedberg.
Anne Harrison, Linda Reisman, and Anne Rosellini served as producers, and executive producers are Michael Bloom, Adam Pincus, Aaron L. Gilbert, [link...
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (Spwa) has pounced on all international rights excluding France to Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace.
Granik’s follow-up to Winter’s Bone premiered on Saturday night in Premieres and centres on a father and daughter living off the grid. Ben Foster and newcomer Thomasin Harcourt McKenzieas star. Bron Creative and Topic Studios produced.
Winter’s Bone won the grand jury prize back in Sundance 2010 and went on to earn four Oscar nods including one for best picture and another for the film’s then-unknown star, Jennifer Lawrence.
The deal excludes North America. Endeavor Content and Bron’s Adam Davids and Anjay Nagpal brokered the deal on behalf of the filmmakers with Spwa’s Michael Helfand and Jon Freedberg.
Anne Harrison, Linda Reisman, and Anne Rosellini served as producers, and executive producers are Michael Bloom, Adam Pincus, Aaron L. Gilbert, [link...
- 1/21/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Slate includes hour-long drama from Channing Tatum’s production company Free Association.
First Look Media’s Topic studio has unveiled its development slate for scripted TV series, with projects from Alex Garcia Lopez, Erin Foley-Chan and Channing Tatum’s production company Free Association.
Hunger, written by Garcia Lopez, is a geopolitical thriller about the powerful, covert and dangerous business of the global food industry. With nods to Traffic and The Night Manager, the hour-long series promises to be a provocative, uncompromising and international drama exposing an urgent and imminent crisis relatively unknown to the world.
Trying, written by Foley-Chan, is part of a first look deal with executive producer Daniel Powell. The half hour comedy follows Erin Foley-Chan, a chronic people-pleaser who can’t resist helping everyone around her. When told that she is infertile and cannot have a child without arduous treatments, she’s forced to deal with her own problems, for once.
Company...
First Look Media’s Topic studio has unveiled its development slate for scripted TV series, with projects from Alex Garcia Lopez, Erin Foley-Chan and Channing Tatum’s production company Free Association.
Hunger, written by Garcia Lopez, is a geopolitical thriller about the powerful, covert and dangerous business of the global food industry. With nods to Traffic and The Night Manager, the hour-long series promises to be a provocative, uncompromising and international drama exposing an urgent and imminent crisis relatively unknown to the world.
Trying, written by Foley-Chan, is part of a first look deal with executive producer Daniel Powell. The half hour comedy follows Erin Foley-Chan, a chronic people-pleaser who can’t resist helping everyone around her. When told that she is infertile and cannot have a child without arduous treatments, she’s forced to deal with her own problems, for once.
Company...
- 8/17/2017
- ScreenDaily
Colin Farrell also stars in untitled project by Nightcrawler director Dan Gilroy.
Topic, the entertainment studio owned by First Look Media, is to co-produce and co-finance the upcoming untitled Denzel Washington legal drama written and directed by Dan Gilroy.
Washington, who directed and starred in last year’s Oscar nominee Fences, stars as a liberal attorney who takes on a life-changing case at a prestigious firm after the death of his longtime partner. The project has been referred to by the title Inner City.
Colin Farrell, recently in Cannes with world premieres of The Beguiled and The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, also stars in the feature, which has wrapped in anticipation of a release later this year. This is Gilroy’s second film and follow-up to 2014 cult hit Nightcrawler.
Topic joins previously announced Sony Pictures, Cross Creek, Macro, Image Nation, and Bron on the financier and producer roster.
Jennifer Fox and Escape Artists’ Todd Black serve...
Topic, the entertainment studio owned by First Look Media, is to co-produce and co-finance the upcoming untitled Denzel Washington legal drama written and directed by Dan Gilroy.
Washington, who directed and starred in last year’s Oscar nominee Fences, stars as a liberal attorney who takes on a life-changing case at a prestigious firm after the death of his longtime partner. The project has been referred to by the title Inner City.
Colin Farrell, recently in Cannes with world premieres of The Beguiled and The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, also stars in the feature, which has wrapped in anticipation of a release later this year. This is Gilroy’s second film and follow-up to 2014 cult hit Nightcrawler.
Topic joins previously announced Sony Pictures, Cross Creek, Macro, Image Nation, and Bron on the financier and producer roster.
Jennifer Fox and Escape Artists’ Todd Black serve...
- 6/12/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Colin Farrell also stars in untitled project.
Topic, the entertainment studio owned by First Look Media, is to co-produce and co-finance the upcoming untitled Denzel Washington legal drama written and directed by Dan Gilroy.
Washington, who directed and starred in last year’s Oscar nominee Fences, stars as a liberal attorney who takes on a life-changing case at a prestigious new firm after the death of his longtime partner. The project has been referred to by the title Inner City.
Colin Farrell, recently in Cannes with world premieres of The Beguiled and The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, also stars in the feature, which has wrapped in anticipation of a release later this year. This is Gilroy’s second film and follow-up to 2014 cult hit Nightcrawler.
Topic joins Sony Pictures, Cross Creek, Macro, Image Nation, and Bron on the financier and producer roster.
Jennifer Fox and Escape Artists’ Todd Black serve as producers, while [link=co...
Topic, the entertainment studio owned by First Look Media, is to co-produce and co-finance the upcoming untitled Denzel Washington legal drama written and directed by Dan Gilroy.
Washington, who directed and starred in last year’s Oscar nominee Fences, stars as a liberal attorney who takes on a life-changing case at a prestigious new firm after the death of his longtime partner. The project has been referred to by the title Inner City.
Colin Farrell, recently in Cannes with world premieres of The Beguiled and The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, also stars in the feature, which has wrapped in anticipation of a release later this year. This is Gilroy’s second film and follow-up to 2014 cult hit Nightcrawler.
Topic joins Sony Pictures, Cross Creek, Macro, Image Nation, and Bron on the financier and producer roster.
Jennifer Fox and Escape Artists’ Todd Black serve as producers, while [link=co...
- 6/12/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Vietnam War-era film set to begin production in spring 2018.
Topic, the content studio owned by First Look Media, announced on Thursday that it will co-produce and finance On The Other Side.
Carey Mulligan will star in and produce the film, alongside producers Margot Hand of Picture Films and Edet Belzberg of Ebm Productions.
First Look Media’s executive vice-president of programming and content Adam Pincus and senior vice-president of narrative film Annie Marter will oversee for Topic.
Based on the book On The Other Side: 23 Days With The Vietcong, On The Other Side centres on Kate Webb, the female war correspondent who was held in captivity during the Vietnam War. The journalist survived fierce battles and 23 days of captivity in the jungles of Cambodia.
Mulligan was nominated for an Oscar and won a BAFTA for her break out role in An Education. She has gone on to star in films including The Great Gatsby, Drive, and Inside Llewyn Davis...
Topic, the content studio owned by First Look Media, announced on Thursday that it will co-produce and finance On The Other Side.
Carey Mulligan will star in and produce the film, alongside producers Margot Hand of Picture Films and Edet Belzberg of Ebm Productions.
First Look Media’s executive vice-president of programming and content Adam Pincus and senior vice-president of narrative film Annie Marter will oversee for Topic.
Based on the book On The Other Side: 23 Days With The Vietcong, On The Other Side centres on Kate Webb, the female war correspondent who was held in captivity during the Vietnam War. The journalist survived fierce battles and 23 days of captivity in the jungles of Cambodia.
Mulligan was nominated for an Oscar and won a BAFTA for her break out role in An Education. She has gone on to star in films including The Great Gatsby, Drive, and Inside Llewyn Davis...
- 6/1/2017
- ScreenDaily
Later today, Chelsea Manning will celebrate her release from maximum-security U.S. military prison. In doing so, the embattled former U.S. Army intelligence analyst will enter a very different world than the one she left when she was sentenced to 35 years in an all-men’s, maximum-security, military prison for convictions related to leaking documents back in 2010.
She will also enter a world as the subject of a brand new documentary. Billed as “the journey of her fight for survival and dignity, and her transition from prisoner to a free woman,” Manning and her life will be the focus of a new feature from Pulse Films.
Pulse Films CEO Thomas Benski today announced the production of the documentary “Xy Chelsea,” complete with exclusive rights to Chelsea Manning’s story, Pulse has reportedly enjoyed “unique access to her team for two years to make the film.”
Read More: ‘Risk’ Takes On...
She will also enter a world as the subject of a brand new documentary. Billed as “the journey of her fight for survival and dignity, and her transition from prisoner to a free woman,” Manning and her life will be the focus of a new feature from Pulse Films.
Pulse Films CEO Thomas Benski today announced the production of the documentary “Xy Chelsea,” complete with exclusive rights to Chelsea Manning’s story, Pulse has reportedly enjoyed “unique access to her team for two years to make the film.”
Read More: ‘Risk’ Takes On...
- 5/17/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The film recently won awards at HotDocs in Toronto.
Topic, First Look Media’s newly branded entertainment studio, will acquire Us rights to Tali Shemesh and Asaf Sudry’s Death In The Terminal.
The deal is being negotiated by Ryan Heller, vice-president of acquisitions for First Look Media, with CAA on behalf of the filmmakers.
On October 18, 2015, a terrorist armed with a gun and a knife entered a bus terminal in the Southern Israeli city of Beersheba. Using surveillance footage, cellphone cameras, and eyewitness and participant testimonies, the film presents a real-time account of the series of tragic events that unfolded over the ensuing 18 minutes.
The documentary won top prizes at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam and Israel’s Academy Awards.
“This film is a powerful portrayal of how storytelling shifts our perception of people, events and even our own preconceptions,” Adam Pincus, First Look Media’s executive vice-president of programming and content said. “Death In The Terminal is a perfect...
Topic, First Look Media’s newly branded entertainment studio, will acquire Us rights to Tali Shemesh and Asaf Sudry’s Death In The Terminal.
The deal is being negotiated by Ryan Heller, vice-president of acquisitions for First Look Media, with CAA on behalf of the filmmakers.
On October 18, 2015, a terrorist armed with a gun and a knife entered a bus terminal in the Southern Israeli city of Beersheba. Using surveillance footage, cellphone cameras, and eyewitness and participant testimonies, the film presents a real-time account of the series of tragic events that unfolded over the ensuing 18 minutes.
The documentary won top prizes at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam and Israel’s Academy Awards.
“This film is a powerful portrayal of how storytelling shifts our perception of people, events and even our own preconceptions,” Adam Pincus, First Look Media’s executive vice-president of programming and content said. “Death In The Terminal is a perfect...
- 5/10/2017
- ScreenDaily
Rodrigo Prieto, the esteemed cinematographer who has worked on films such as Martin Scorcese's Silence and Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, is set to make his directorial debut with revenge thriller Bastard. La La Land's Jordan Horowitz is set to produce via his Original Headquarters banner while Scorsese and Emma Tillinger Koskoff are exec producing. Topic, First Look Media's entertainment studio, is financing and the company's Adam Pincus and Annie Marter are both…...
- 3/23/2017
- Deadline
Feature marks long-time cinematographer Prieto’s directorial debut. La La Land’s Jordan Horowitz to produce; Martin Scorsese and Emma Tillinger Koskoff executive producers.
Topic, the content studio owned by First Look Media, announced on Thursday that it will finance Oscar-nominated cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto’s feature directorial debut.
Bastard is based on a script by Bill Gullo and principal photography is set to begin in the first quarter of 2018.
The revenge thriller is set against a looming flood that will ravage the small town of Bird’s Point, Missouri. Wme Global brokered the deal and will represent the film for North America.
Prieto (pictured) is a prolific cinematographer, having shot such films as Alejandro González Iñárritu’s 21 Grams and Babel, Ben Affleck’s Argo, Oliver Stone’s Alexander and Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, for which he was nominated for an Oscar.
The cinematographer-turned-director has an extensive working relationship with Martin Scorsese after working with the director...
Topic, the content studio owned by First Look Media, announced on Thursday that it will finance Oscar-nominated cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto’s feature directorial debut.
Bastard is based on a script by Bill Gullo and principal photography is set to begin in the first quarter of 2018.
The revenge thriller is set against a looming flood that will ravage the small town of Bird’s Point, Missouri. Wme Global brokered the deal and will represent the film for North America.
Prieto (pictured) is a prolific cinematographer, having shot such films as Alejandro González Iñárritu’s 21 Grams and Babel, Ben Affleck’s Argo, Oliver Stone’s Alexander and Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, for which he was nominated for an Oscar.
The cinematographer-turned-director has an extensive working relationship with Martin Scorsese after working with the director...
- 3/23/2017
- ScreenDaily
Production on father-daughter drama set for April start in Portland, Oregon.
The star of Oscar-nominated Hell Or High Water will play the lead for Winter’s Bone director Debra Granik.
Bron Creative and First Look Media will co-finance and serve as executive producers on the drama, which is scheduled to begin shooting in Portland, Oregon, in April.
Granik and Anne Rosellini adapted the screenplay from Peter Rock’s novel of the same name about a 13-year-old and her father who are plucked from the peaceful idyll in a temperate rainforest adjoining Portland and must find a new home.
Newcomer Thomasin McKenzie from The Hobbit: Battle Of The Five Armies will star alongside Foster.
Bron group of companies president and CEO Aaron L Gilbert made the announcement on Wednesday with First Look Media president Michael Bloom.
Anne Harrison is producing through her Harrison Productions with Linda Reisman of Reisman Productions and Anne Rosellini for Still Rolling Productions.
Gilbert...
The star of Oscar-nominated Hell Or High Water will play the lead for Winter’s Bone director Debra Granik.
Bron Creative and First Look Media will co-finance and serve as executive producers on the drama, which is scheduled to begin shooting in Portland, Oregon, in April.
Granik and Anne Rosellini adapted the screenplay from Peter Rock’s novel of the same name about a 13-year-old and her father who are plucked from the peaceful idyll in a temperate rainforest adjoining Portland and must find a new home.
Newcomer Thomasin McKenzie from The Hobbit: Battle Of The Five Armies will star alongside Foster.
Bron group of companies president and CEO Aaron L Gilbert made the announcement on Wednesday with First Look Media president Michael Bloom.
Anne Harrison is producing through her Harrison Productions with Linda Reisman of Reisman Productions and Anne Rosellini for Still Rolling Productions.
Gilbert...
- 2/22/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The move comes as the Los Angeles-based film and TV company ramps up operations.
The Los Angeles-based film and TV company that co-financed last year’s best picture Oscar winner Spotlight has named Jason Fisher senior vice-president and head of production and Ryan Heller vice-president of acquisitions.
The new hires come as First Look Media continues to expand its programming and content team. The company has just boarded the Ben Foster drama My Abandonment with Bron Creative.
Fisher (main picture) will oversee a growing number of scripted and unscripted productions for digital, television and film, while Heller takes the lead on forging new partnerships and ramping up acquisitions to complement original programming.
Both will report to First Look Media executive vice-president of programming and content Adam Pincus.
Fisher, who began his career as a film producer, served as senior vice-president and head of production at AMC Networks where he helped create the in-house studio behind The Walking Dead, Mad Men...
The Los Angeles-based film and TV company that co-financed last year’s best picture Oscar winner Spotlight has named Jason Fisher senior vice-president and head of production and Ryan Heller vice-president of acquisitions.
The new hires come as First Look Media continues to expand its programming and content team. The company has just boarded the Ben Foster drama My Abandonment with Bron Creative.
Fisher (main picture) will oversee a growing number of scripted and unscripted productions for digital, television and film, while Heller takes the lead on forging new partnerships and ramping up acquisitions to complement original programming.
Both will report to First Look Media executive vice-president of programming and content Adam Pincus.
Fisher, who began his career as a film producer, served as senior vice-president and head of production at AMC Networks where he helped create the in-house studio behind The Walking Dead, Mad Men...
- 2/22/2017
- ScreenDaily
First Look Media, which co-financed the Best Picture Oscar winner “Spotlight” as its first project and helped produce Laura Poitras’ upcoming Julian Assange documentary “Risk,” has hired Todd Green as its Senior Vice President of Content Distribution and Licensing and Carrie Lieberman as Director of Content Distribution and Licensing.
Read More: Cannes: With ‘Risk,’ Laura Poitras Ignites Demand For Julian Assange’s Release
Green and Lieberman will identify and secure distribution partnerships and licensing deals for content produced and acquired by First Look across film, television and short form digital. Green was previously a Senior Vice President of Digital Distribution at the now-defunct Alchemy, prior to which he was a General Manager at Tribeca Film and a Senior Vice President of Marketing and Advertising at AMC Networks.
“Todd brings a wealth of experience with a range of distribution deals, partners and models from his extensive time at AMC Networks and Tribeca Film,...
Read More: Cannes: With ‘Risk,’ Laura Poitras Ignites Demand For Julian Assange’s Release
Green and Lieberman will identify and secure distribution partnerships and licensing deals for content produced and acquired by First Look across film, television and short form digital. Green was previously a Senior Vice President of Digital Distribution at the now-defunct Alchemy, prior to which he was a General Manager at Tribeca Film and a Senior Vice President of Marketing and Advertising at AMC Networks.
“Todd brings a wealth of experience with a range of distribution deals, partners and models from his extensive time at AMC Networks and Tribeca Film,...
- 9/21/2016
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Though Morgan Spurlock (“Super Size Me”) keeps himself busy with his CNN documentary series “Morgan Spurlock Inside Man,” he still avidly directs and produces films, such as a documentary about the “Patriot” movement in the United States. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Spurlock has signed on to produce the so-far untitled doc for First Look Media, the financier for the Best Picture-winning film “Spotlight.” The documentary is directed by David Byars, who went inside the 2016 occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon by Ammon Bundy and a group of armed militants.
Read More: Watch: Morgan Spurlock Wants You to ‘Call Bullsh*t’ on the Presidential Debates
“From the first moment I saw the raw footage David captured in Oregon, I knew I had to make this movie,” said Spurlock. “Audiences will be blown away. It’s so timely and beyond powerful.”
The documentary will look at the causes of the movement’s rise,...
Read More: Watch: Morgan Spurlock Wants You to ‘Call Bullsh*t’ on the Presidential Debates
“From the first moment I saw the raw footage David captured in Oregon, I knew I had to make this movie,” said Spurlock. “Audiences will be blown away. It’s so timely and beyond powerful.”
The documentary will look at the causes of the movement’s rise,...
- 9/10/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
The company has hired Annie Marter as senior vice-president, feature film, as it seeks to broaden its activities.
First Look Media, who co-financed best picture Oscar-winner Spotlight, also announced it is developing a screenplay from Dirty Wars writer David Riker.
Marter served in executive roles on films like Sunshine Cleaning, Let Me In, Traitor, and The Visitor.
She also produced Transcendence and reports to First Look Media executive vice-president of programming and content Adam Pincus.
The Riker script is based on unpublished reporting by investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill, a founding editor of The Intercept, which is dedicated to producing adversarial journalism.
First Look Media is involved in Laura Poitras’ Cannes selection Risk, which Praxis Films produced in association with First Look Media and Field of Vision.
First Look Media, who co-financed best picture Oscar-winner Spotlight, also announced it is developing a screenplay from Dirty Wars writer David Riker.
Marter served in executive roles on films like Sunshine Cleaning, Let Me In, Traitor, and The Visitor.
She also produced Transcendence and reports to First Look Media executive vice-president of programming and content Adam Pincus.
The Riker script is based on unpublished reporting by investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill, a founding editor of The Intercept, which is dedicated to producing adversarial journalism.
First Look Media is involved in Laura Poitras’ Cannes selection Risk, which Praxis Films produced in association with First Look Media and Field of Vision.
- 5/10/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
First Look Media, whose first project was acting as a co-financier on this year’s Best Picture Oscar winner Spotlight, has hired veteran executive Annie Marter as Svp Feature Film, with an eye on growing the studio's film slate. She will report to Adam Pincus, First Look’s Evp Programming and Content. The news comes as First Look hits Cannes with the Laura Directors’ Fortnight title Risk, exec produced by Mr. Robot‘s Sam Esmail. As part of the feature film ramp-up, First…...
- 5/10/2016
- Deadline
First Look Media continues to signal a push in original series with the hire of former Comedy Central Svp Original Programming and Development Lisa Leingang. She will serve as Svp, Scripted Programming, based in New York. Leingang’s appointment comes two weeks after First Look Media tapped another Viacom Media Networks alum, Adam Pincus, as Evp Programming and Content, overseeing feature films, TV and digital programming. Reporting to Pincus, Leingang will head up the…...
- 12/2/2015
- Deadline TV
TORONTO -- The Sundance Channel said Monday that it has hired veteran Canadian TV programmer Laura Michalchyshyn as executive vp programming and marketing. Michalchyshyn, who moved to New York from Toronto, where she was senior vp dramatic programming at domestic broadcaster Alliance Atlantis Communications, will report to Sundance Channel founder Robert Redford and president and CEO Larry Aidem. While at Alliance Atlantis, Michalchyshyn was responsible for the broadcaster's drama-based specialty channels, including the Independent Film Channel Canada. Michalchyshyn will oversee on-air and off-air programming and promotion at the Sundance Channel, with senior vp original programming Adam Pincus and vp film programming Christian Vesper reporting to her.
- 1/11/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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