Range Media, the management and production company that’s quickly establishing a foothold in Hollywood, is expanding its sports division.
Range, led by CEO Pete Micelli, said Monday that it has acquired veteran agent Lowell Taub’s boutique sports company Stoked Management Group. Taub will join Range as chief revenue officer and head of athlete marketing for the sports unit. All five employees of Stoked are moving over to the Santa Monica-based company.
Taub launched Stoked Management nearly at the same time that former CAA, UTA and WME agents decamped to found Range in 2020 during the pandemic when production was shut down in Hollywood. Stoked touts a roster of Olympic stars and pro athletes in action sports, including surfer John Florence, Peloton instructor Kendall Toole and track athlete Gabrielle Thomas, who will move over to Range.
“Lowell is a uniquely talented leader with an impeccable reputation,” stated Range Sports co-presidents Will Funk and Greg Luckman.
Range, led by CEO Pete Micelli, said Monday that it has acquired veteran agent Lowell Taub’s boutique sports company Stoked Management Group. Taub will join Range as chief revenue officer and head of athlete marketing for the sports unit. All five employees of Stoked are moving over to the Santa Monica-based company.
Taub launched Stoked Management nearly at the same time that former CAA, UTA and WME agents decamped to found Range in 2020 during the pandemic when production was shut down in Hollywood. Stoked touts a roster of Olympic stars and pro athletes in action sports, including surfer John Florence, Peloton instructor Kendall Toole and track athlete Gabrielle Thomas, who will move over to Range.
“Lowell is a uniquely talented leader with an impeccable reputation,” stated Range Sports co-presidents Will Funk and Greg Luckman.
- 9/25/2023
- by Erik Hayden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Inspired by a personal memory of writer and director Olivia Silver, her feature debut wistfully recalls the formative period between childhood simplicity and the painful awareness of adulthood. With redeeming moments of incredible warmth, Arcadia won Crystal Bear at Berlin Int’l Film Festival and Official Selection at Sarasota Film Festival, but tells the ultimately uninventive story of a family journeying 3,000 miles in an old station wagon to their new California home.
The grueling road trip, absent mother and flawed father may bring to mind, purposefully or otherwise, Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas. Much like Harry Dean Stanton’s perfectly lined face, Academy Award nominee John Hawkes has a weathered look of experience – but drawing such a comparison to Paris, Texas’ profoundly enigmatic Travis only underlines the impenetrable surface and unexacting characterization in Arcadia. Rather than challenging expectations of paternity or embracing vulnerability, Tom is carefully rendered as the too-perfect balance...
The grueling road trip, absent mother and flawed father may bring to mind, purposefully or otherwise, Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas. Much like Harry Dean Stanton’s perfectly lined face, Academy Award nominee John Hawkes has a weathered look of experience – but drawing such a comparison to Paris, Texas’ profoundly enigmatic Travis only underlines the impenetrable surface and unexacting characterization in Arcadia. Rather than challenging expectations of paternity or embracing vulnerability, Tom is carefully rendered as the too-perfect balance...
- 7/23/2013
- by Caitlin Coder
- IONCINEMA.com
Writer-director Olivia Silver's Arcadia is conveyed reflectively from the perspective of Greta (Ryan Simpkins), a 12-year-old who is being forcibly relocated from New England to California by her dad (John Hawkes). Greta shares the cramped backseat of her dad's beat up station wagon with her 9-year-old brother, Nat (Ty Simpkins), while her older sister, Caroline (Kendall Toole), rides shotgun and navigates. Despite their dad's repeated promises of sunshine, horses and swimming pools awaiting them in California, the kids are sad that they had to leave their mom behind; but after six months without a job, their dad just could not turn down a dream job offer, even if it meant relocating his family 3,000 miles across country. While the kids' dad promises that their mom will join them soon, Greta grows increasingly suspicious that he is lying to them. Greta overhears her dad engaging in heated arguments while noticing that...
- 7/23/2013
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
When you’re a young teenager and your dad tells you that you’re moving across the country to California, you kind of have to listen. Even if your mother is mysteriously not joining.
In Arcadia, director Olivia Silver takes viewers on an atmospheric, sun-soaked road trip with Greta (Ryan Simpkins), Caroline (Kendall Toole), and Nat (Ty Simpkins) and their father Tom, played by Oscar-nominee John Hawkes. The reason for the move is cloaked in secrecy. There’s a job in California, and they have to go, but it’s not entirely clear why their mother isn’t there. As the middle child,...
In Arcadia, director Olivia Silver takes viewers on an atmospheric, sun-soaked road trip with Greta (Ryan Simpkins), Caroline (Kendall Toole), and Nat (Ty Simpkins) and their father Tom, played by Oscar-nominee John Hawkes. The reason for the move is cloaked in secrecy. There’s a job in California, and they have to go, but it’s not entirely clear why their mother isn’t there. As the middle child,...
- 7/22/2013
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
Winner of the Crystal Bear at the 2012 Berlin Film Festival, Olivia Silver’s debut feature Arcadia puts a more intimate spin on the road movie. In the film, father Tom (the always excellent John Hawkes) takes his three kids, teenager Caroline (Kendall Toole), 12-year-old Greta (Ryan Simpkins) and nine-year-old Nat (Ty Simpkins) on a 3,000-mile cross-country road trip to California, saying that their mother will join them soon in their new home. However, as the journey progresses, it is clear that the situation is much different than it seems. To coincide with Arcadia‘s opening today at the reRun Theater, Brooklyn-based …...
- 4/12/2013
- by Nick Dawson
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
The coming-of-age story is a well-worn, indeed over-familiar mode of narrative, especially in films, but director Olivia Silver's feature debut Arcadia overcomes this pitfall by bringing great sensitivity and a nicely-honed sense of poignancy, as well as some fine performances to the proceedings. Arcadia unfolds mostly through the eyes of 12-year old Greta (Ryan Simpkins) who, along with her older sister Caroline (Kendall Toole) and younger brother Nat (Ty Simpkins, Ryan's real-life brother), are woken up in the very early morning hours by their father Tom (John Hawkes). Tom piles them all in a battered station wagon, setting them off on a 3,000 mile journey from New England to their new home in California. Tom desperately tries to allay his children's fears about being so...
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- 3/11/2013
- Screen Anarchy
#05. Arcadia - Olivia Silver Besides the labs, you'll often hear about how Sundance supports young filmmakers in the creative process. As case in point, they often select a short film and a couple of years later re-invite the filmmaker when a feature film version of the given short is made. Last year we had Little Birds and Pariah, and if finished in time (filming was completed in September), this year we could find the feature version based on Olivia Silver's 209 accepted short Little Canyon (see pic above - watch here). Arcadia sees Sundance regular John Hawkes play father to a trio of children which includes Kendall Toole (who once again plays the same role) and the film's Pov, the child in the car's backseat played by an actress (Ryan Simpkins) who might be poised to break out bigger in Park City as a thirteen year-old than the toddler part...
- 11/7/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
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