Exclusive: Fast-rising rep Norris Brooks has pivoted from agenting to literary management, having departed CAA to join Echo Lake Entertainment, where she will continue to represent comedians, writers, directors, producers and book properties.
Brooks joined CAA in 2017, as a publishing department assistant based out of New York, and eventually made her way back to her native Los Angeles, where she became an agent in the TV Scripted and Book Rights departments.
A specialist in the comedy space with a penchant for bolstering female talent and underrepresented voices, her clients have worked on such acclaimed series as Shrinking, Ted Lasso, Archer, Physical, and The Afterparty, among others. Brooks orchestrated the sale of Daniel Ricciardo’s scripted Formula 1 series at Hulu and has sold book adaptions to various networks. Clients expected to join her at Echo Lake include writers Miles Woods (Paramount+’s Frasier revival) and Sofi Selig (Ted Lasso), How I Met Your Father...
Brooks joined CAA in 2017, as a publishing department assistant based out of New York, and eventually made her way back to her native Los Angeles, where she became an agent in the TV Scripted and Book Rights departments.
A specialist in the comedy space with a penchant for bolstering female talent and underrepresented voices, her clients have worked on such acclaimed series as Shrinking, Ted Lasso, Archer, Physical, and The Afterparty, among others. Brooks orchestrated the sale of Daniel Ricciardo’s scripted Formula 1 series at Hulu and has sold book adaptions to various networks. Clients expected to join her at Echo Lake include writers Miles Woods (Paramount+’s Frasier revival) and Sofi Selig (Ted Lasso), How I Met Your Father...
- 9/27/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Joey Bragg, Tyler Alvarez, Genevieve Hannelius star.
Premiere Entertainment Group has acquired international rights to American High and Ld Entertainment’s teen comedy Sid Is Dead starring Joey Bragg, Tyler Alvarez and Genevieve Hannelius and is kicking off talks in Cannes this week.
Eli Gonda directed the film from Peter Warren’s screenplay based on a novel by Drew Frist and Tom Dolby. The story centres on a high school senior (Bragg) who fears for his life after getting the school bully suspended and creates a bucket list of everything he will miss out on when he expects his life...
Premiere Entertainment Group has acquired international rights to American High and Ld Entertainment’s teen comedy Sid Is Dead starring Joey Bragg, Tyler Alvarez and Genevieve Hannelius and is kicking off talks in Cannes this week.
Eli Gonda directed the film from Peter Warren’s screenplay based on a novel by Drew Frist and Tom Dolby. The story centres on a high school senior (Bragg) who fears for his life after getting the school bully suspended and creates a bucket list of everything he will miss out on when he expects his life...
- 5/15/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
"Freeridge", the new supernatural teen comedy-drama series directed by Arlyn Richardson and Eli Gonda, as spin-off of "On My Block", is now streaming on Netflix:
"...four teen friends work to reverse a curse after a peculiar old box seems to bring misfortune — and more — into their lives..."
Cast includes Bryana Salaz as 'Ines', Keyla Monterroso Mejia as 'Gloria...
...Ciara Riley Wilson as 'Demi', Tenzing Norgay Trainor as 'Cameron'.
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"...four teen friends work to reverse a curse after a peculiar old box seems to bring misfortune — and more — into their lives..."
Cast includes Bryana Salaz as 'Ines', Keyla Monterroso Mejia as 'Gloria...
...Ciara Riley Wilson as 'Demi', Tenzing Norgay Trainor as 'Cameron'.
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- 2/2/2023
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Elizabeth Henstridge and her character on Agents of Shield, Jemma Simmons, have both been fan favorites for as long as the show has been on the air. It’s a role Henstridge landed just a year after coming to the U.S. with only a passion for acting and a few professional connections, but now with her success on the Marvel series she has made it all the way to the director’s chair. Her helming debut will be seen this week in the season 7 episode, “As I Have Always Been,” an installment that finds the team experiencing a Groundhog Day style time loop which they must escape or perish.
Henstridge welcomed the chance to take on such a story, and she gave a lot of the credit to the episode’s writer. “It was a very welcome challenge,” she said. “As a director, it’s kind of the best...
Henstridge welcomed the chance to take on such a story, and she gave a lot of the credit to the episode’s writer. “It was a very welcome challenge,” she said. “As a director, it’s kind of the best...
- 7/22/2020
- by Michael Ahr
- Den of Geek
Sneak Peek the new "Agents of Shield" episode "After, Before", directed by Eli Gonda, airing July 15, 2020 on ABC:
"...with the 'Zephyr' time drive malfunctioning, the team is quite literally hurling towards disaster and 'Yo-Yo' may be their only hope.
"The only problem? To get her powers back, she'll need to enlist the help of an old adversary and revisit part of her past long hidden away..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Agents of Shield: After, Before"...
"...with the 'Zephyr' time drive malfunctioning, the team is quite literally hurling towards disaster and 'Yo-Yo' may be their only hope.
"The only problem? To get her powers back, she'll need to enlist the help of an old adversary and revisit part of her past long hidden away..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Agents of Shield: After, Before"...
- 7/10/2020
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Eden Brolin will join Vince Vaughn, Liam Hemsworth, and Clark Duke in Duke’s directorial debut film, Arkansas, which follows a pair of low level drug runners in the Dixie Mafia, Kyle (Hemsworth) and Swin (Duke), who live by the orders of an Arkansas-based drug kingpin Frog (Vaughn). The film, also written by Duke, is set to be presented at the American Film Market, which starts on October 31. Patrick Hibler, Jeff Rice, Martin Sprock, and Storyboard Media are producing. Jd Beaufils and Julie Paquit of Vmi Worldwide will handle sales in conjunction with Elisabeth Costa de Beauregard of Storyboard Media. Brolin (daughter of Josh Brolin) starred in Freeform’s supernatural series, Beyond, and co-stars in upcoming indie films Back Fork and King Fish with Molly Ringwald. She’s repped by Paradigm, Grandview, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
Actress Elyse Levesque (CW’s The Originals) is set for the role of Charity...
Actress Elyse Levesque (CW’s The Originals) is set for the role of Charity...
- 10/24/2018
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Joey Bragg (Liv and Maddie), Tyler Alvarez (American Vandal) Jack Griffo (The Thundermans), and Genevieve Hannelius (American Vandal) are set to topline Sid Is Dead, a comedy from American High. Eli Gonda is directing the film, which is slated to being shooting this month. The script is by Ghost Team writer Peter Warren.
The story centers on a socially invisible high school senior, Sid (Bragg) who, after slipping up and getting the school’s biggest bully suspended, realizes he may only have two weeks left to experience everything he’s ever missed out on.
Alvarez will play Jim, Sid’s best friend who is desperately trying to fit in with the popular kids while also eyeing all the girls at school. Hannelius is Tiff, the hottest girl in school, girlfriend of the school bully, and Sid’s long-time crush. Griffo will play Eric, the captain of the hockey team...
The story centers on a socially invisible high school senior, Sid (Bragg) who, after slipping up and getting the school’s biggest bully suspended, realizes he may only have two weeks left to experience everything he’s ever missed out on.
Alvarez will play Jim, Sid’s best friend who is desperately trying to fit in with the popular kids while also eyeing all the girls at school. Hannelius is Tiff, the hottest girl in school, girlfriend of the school bully, and Sid’s long-time crush. Griffo will play Eric, the captain of the hockey team...
- 10/17/2018
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Fullscreen Films has some celebrating to do. The movie branch of the YouTube multi-channel network Fullscreen debuted the feature film The Outfield, starring Vine celebrities Cameron Dallas and Nash Grier, on November 10, 2015 exclusively on iTunes. And within two days of release, the social media star-led flick landed the #1 spot on the iTunes drama movie chart.
Directed by Eli Gonda and Michael Goldfine, The Outfield features Dallas and Grier, along with Joey Bragg, as three high school baseball stars whose lives all start going different directions than they intended during senior year. The Fullscreen flick, which was produced by Goldfine alongside Gil Kruger, not only landed at the top of the drama films chart in Apple’s iTunes Store, but The Outfield also became the best-selling movie on the platform’s indie films chart.
However, The Outfield can’t claim the same top-level honors for the overall U.S. movies chart on iTunes.
Directed by Eli Gonda and Michael Goldfine, The Outfield features Dallas and Grier, along with Joey Bragg, as three high school baseball stars whose lives all start going different directions than they intended during senior year. The Fullscreen flick, which was produced by Goldfine alongside Gil Kruger, not only landed at the top of the drama films chart in Apple’s iTunes Store, but The Outfield also became the best-selling movie on the platform’s indie films chart.
However, The Outfield can’t claim the same top-level honors for the overall U.S. movies chart on iTunes.
- 11/12/2015
- by Bree Brouwer
- Tubefilter.com
Fullscreen has a release date for its newest feature film. The multi-channel network owned by Chernin Group and At&T announced its movie The Outfield, starring Vine celebrities Cameron Dallas and Nash Grier, will debut exclusively on iTunes on November 10, 2015.
Directed by Eli Gonda and Michael Goldfine, The Outfield features Dallas and Grier as high school baseball stars Frankie and Jake, respectively. The two friends, along with their buddy Austin (played by Joey Bragg of Disney’s Liv and Maddie), seem to have their futures lined up and ready to go. But senior year brings changes which make them all question what they’re truly meant to do with their lives. Produced by Goldfine and Gil Kruger, The Outfield marks Grier’s debut performance, while it’s Dallas’s second film credit to date (the Viner previously starred in AwesomenessTV’s Expelled).
Originally announced back in , The Outfield is only...
Directed by Eli Gonda and Michael Goldfine, The Outfield features Dallas and Grier as high school baseball stars Frankie and Jake, respectively. The two friends, along with their buddy Austin (played by Joey Bragg of Disney’s Liv and Maddie), seem to have their futures lined up and ready to go. But senior year brings changes which make them all question what they’re truly meant to do with their lives. Produced by Goldfine and Gil Kruger, The Outfield marks Grier’s debut performance, while it’s Dallas’s second film credit to date (the Viner previously starred in AwesomenessTV’s Expelled).
Originally announced back in , The Outfield is only...
- 10/16/2015
- by Bree Brouwer
- Tubefilter.com
- Sounds a little premature to be speaking about it this early in the game, but what's more fun than predicting and prognosticating some of the choice offerings that we'll be seeing at the next Oscar ceremonies. There are less than 10 months to go before the next round of noms and plenty of film offerings ahead will easily change all this speculating below. Today we begin with what I think will be the Best Non-Fiction nominations for 08’. Always a tough nut to crack – simply put, the Academy are predictable in selecting some obscure choices, this in part due to the voters whose agenda relates more to what a 60+ year old might consider of value. This year we should see some clearer, more popular choices that are part of broader critical consensus. Stay tuned for tomorrow's next Oscar category. Best Documentary Predictions: Four Noms: American Teen (Paramount Vantage) Nanette Burstein, Eli Gonda,
- 3/24/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
Sundance Film Festival
PARK CITY -- Since Rebel Without a Cause, high school kids have been trying to figure out who they are in movies and documentaries. In American Teen, Nanette Burstein chronicles the senior year of four 17-year-olds in Warsaw, Ind. Perhaps because the issues never really change for teenagers, the film seems both revealing and superficial. It's a slickly made and entertaining slice of life that could be a big hit among kids who never get tired of seeing themselves on screen. Paramount Vantage picked up the film at Sundance.
Burstein was searching for an economically mixed town with one high school in the Midwest that reflected American values. She found it in Warsaw Community High School and proceeded to film four students and their friends for the next 10 months.
For her subjects, Burstein chose a rich popular girl, a nerdy guy, an artistic outsider and a jock, following them into locker rooms, classrooms, parties and hang outs. Her patience pays off, and she manages to insinuate herself into their lives, sometimes too much so. To watch the free-spirited and good-natured Hannah, who dreams of going to California to make movies, sobbing after she's broken up with her boyfriend feels a little like an invasion of privacy.
One wonders if events are ever the same when the camera watches them. Intimate scenes, like when Gordy's father explains to him that either he excels on the basketball court and gets a college scholarship or else he's going into the Army, seem more staged than spontaneous. And in the interest of keeping the film breezy and tying the stories together, the editing style tends to smooth out the rough edges. So even when the kids are having serious meltdowns, it doesn't feel like it matters that much.
Soul searching here is reduced to a series of animated segments where we literally get to move inside the characters' eyes to supposedly see what makes them tick. It's a clever device, looks great and it's fun, but it isn't very revealing.
So what if Megan, the privileged rich kid, has more problems then you might imagine and a dark secret that explains her psychic wounds? Perhaps the least interesting character is Jake, the video game geek and marching band member who has an awful case of adolescent acne that is probably going to scar him for life, but it's not explored.
For all of its access and exposure, American Teen seems skin-deep. It's well shot, with good production values and lots of cool music. But it's fun and facile in much the same way reality TV is. You may have a good time, but you'll hate yourself in the morning.
AMERICAN TEEN
A&E IndieFilms
Credits:
Director: Nanette Burstein
Producers: Nanette Burstein, Jordan Roberts, Eli Gonda, Chris Huddleston
Executive producers: Elisa Pugliese, Patrick Morris, Molly Thompson, Nancy Dubuc, Rob Sharenow
Directors of cinematography: Laela Kilbourn, Wolfgang Held, Robert Hanna
Music: Michael Penn
Editors: Mary Manhardt, Tom Haneke, Nanette Burstein
Running time -- 95 minutes
No MPAA rating...
PARK CITY -- Since Rebel Without a Cause, high school kids have been trying to figure out who they are in movies and documentaries. In American Teen, Nanette Burstein chronicles the senior year of four 17-year-olds in Warsaw, Ind. Perhaps because the issues never really change for teenagers, the film seems both revealing and superficial. It's a slickly made and entertaining slice of life that could be a big hit among kids who never get tired of seeing themselves on screen. Paramount Vantage picked up the film at Sundance.
Burstein was searching for an economically mixed town with one high school in the Midwest that reflected American values. She found it in Warsaw Community High School and proceeded to film four students and their friends for the next 10 months.
For her subjects, Burstein chose a rich popular girl, a nerdy guy, an artistic outsider and a jock, following them into locker rooms, classrooms, parties and hang outs. Her patience pays off, and she manages to insinuate herself into their lives, sometimes too much so. To watch the free-spirited and good-natured Hannah, who dreams of going to California to make movies, sobbing after she's broken up with her boyfriend feels a little like an invasion of privacy.
One wonders if events are ever the same when the camera watches them. Intimate scenes, like when Gordy's father explains to him that either he excels on the basketball court and gets a college scholarship or else he's going into the Army, seem more staged than spontaneous. And in the interest of keeping the film breezy and tying the stories together, the editing style tends to smooth out the rough edges. So even when the kids are having serious meltdowns, it doesn't feel like it matters that much.
Soul searching here is reduced to a series of animated segments where we literally get to move inside the characters' eyes to supposedly see what makes them tick. It's a clever device, looks great and it's fun, but it isn't very revealing.
So what if Megan, the privileged rich kid, has more problems then you might imagine and a dark secret that explains her psychic wounds? Perhaps the least interesting character is Jake, the video game geek and marching band member who has an awful case of adolescent acne that is probably going to scar him for life, but it's not explored.
For all of its access and exposure, American Teen seems skin-deep. It's well shot, with good production values and lots of cool music. But it's fun and facile in much the same way reality TV is. You may have a good time, but you'll hate yourself in the morning.
AMERICAN TEEN
A&E IndieFilms
Credits:
Director: Nanette Burstein
Producers: Nanette Burstein, Jordan Roberts, Eli Gonda, Chris Huddleston
Executive producers: Elisa Pugliese, Patrick Morris, Molly Thompson, Nancy Dubuc, Rob Sharenow
Directors of cinematography: Laela Kilbourn, Wolfgang Held, Robert Hanna
Music: Michael Penn
Editors: Mary Manhardt, Tom Haneke, Nanette Burstein
Running time -- 95 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 1/31/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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