Updated with latest additions: Additional speakers have been added to the 13th annual Produced By Conference, the Producers Guild’s annual confab that is set for June 11-12 on the Fox studio lot.
Newly announced participants in the weekend of panels, sessions and network events include Peter Friedlander, DanTram Nguyen, Megan Colligan, Mark Resteghini, Devin Griffin, Barry Jossen, Mark Gill, Aaron Hart, Catherine Tait, Chris Thomes, Yvette Nicole Brown and more.
They join previously announced names including Viola Davis and Julius Tennon, Seth MacFarlane, Charles D. King, Dan Lin, Stephanie Allain, Betsy Beers, Jason Richman, Mark Kimsey and Aml Ameen.
Here is the full list of participants so far, with a working schedule of events available here.
Stephanie Allain
Aml Ameen
Trevor Baker
Amanda Beggs, Cas
Betsy Beers
Xavier Bernasconi
Alison Brower
Yvette Nicole Brown
Elle Roth-Brunet
Rick Champagne
Kesila Childers
Steven B. Cohen
Megan Colligan
Jesse Collins
Simon Crownshaw
Viola Davis
Dante Di Loreto
Sabrina Ehlert
Mike Farah
Stephen Feder
Erica Fishman
Ashley N. Flores
Peter Friedlander
Mark Gill
Amy Gravitt
Marsha Greene
Devin Griffin (EVP & General Manager of BET+)
Aaron Hart
Melody Hildebrandt
Erica Huggins
Steve Jelley
Valerie Johnson-Redrow
Barry Jossen
Jennifer Kawaja
Mark Kimsey
Charles D. King
Mike Larocca
Karen Baker Landers, Mpse
Dan Lin
Seth MacFarlane
Michael Minkler, Cas
Jordana Mollick
DanTram Nguyen
Arnold Pinnock
Mark Resteghini
Jason Richman
Joel Sloss
Curt Sobel, Mpse
Christina Lee Storm
Rabia Sultana
Catherine Tait
Julius Tennon
Chris Thomes
Nikola Todorovic (Co-founder & CEO at Wonder Dynamics)
Diana Williams
Tonya Williams
Philipp Wolf
David W. Zucker
Previously, May 13 Pm: After being on hiatus for the last two years during Covid, the Producers Guild of America (PGA)’s 12th annual Produced By Conference has announced its first round of speakers. The event is taking place on Saturday, June 11 and Sunday, June 12 at the Fox Studio Lot in Century City.
Those panelists include Oscar winner Viola Davis; veteran producer Julius Tennon (President and Co-Founder of JuVee Productions; The First Lady); animation heavyweight Seth MacFarlane; pioneering producer Charles D. King; tentpole-maker Dan Lin; legendary producer Stephanie Allain; master of television Betsy Beers; comedy leader Mike Farah; IP chief Jason Richman; producing innovator Mark Kimsey (Co-CEO of Electromagnetic Productions); actor and producer Aml Ameen (Executive Producer/ Actor – The Porter; Actor – I May Destroy You; Producer/ Actor – Boxing Day) with more to be announced soon.
Produced By will feature panels, Q&As, a networking reception, its Mentoring Roundtables, and the return of the Pitch Perfect session, during which a handful of pre-selected attendees pitch their projects live in front of an audience of leading producers and executives.
The confirmed participants in the Mentor Roundtables are: Insecure producer Deniese Davis; producing legend Gary Goetzman; Academy Award-nominated producer Fred Berger; Daniels producer Jonathan Wang; James Lopez; and Farah, with more to be announced.
New for this year’s conference is the Producers One-on-One engagement, which connects PGA members with an experienced producer for a one-on-one conversation. This is designed for members to seek thoughtful advice about specific projects they are producing. Additionally, for the first time, PGA Create, the Producers Guild’s program supporting emerging and mid-career creative producers from underrepresented backgrounds, will bring together its 35 PGA Create scripted and documentary fellows for a day-long set of networking opportunities supported by the program’s lead sponsor, Google.
Newly announced participants in the weekend of panels, sessions and network events include Peter Friedlander, DanTram Nguyen, Megan Colligan, Mark Resteghini, Devin Griffin, Barry Jossen, Mark Gill, Aaron Hart, Catherine Tait, Chris Thomes, Yvette Nicole Brown and more.
They join previously announced names including Viola Davis and Julius Tennon, Seth MacFarlane, Charles D. King, Dan Lin, Stephanie Allain, Betsy Beers, Jason Richman, Mark Kimsey and Aml Ameen.
Here is the full list of participants so far, with a working schedule of events available here.
Stephanie Allain
Aml Ameen
Trevor Baker
Amanda Beggs, Cas
Betsy Beers
Xavier Bernasconi
Alison Brower
Yvette Nicole Brown
Elle Roth-Brunet
Rick Champagne
Kesila Childers
Steven B. Cohen
Megan Colligan
Jesse Collins
Simon Crownshaw
Viola Davis
Dante Di Loreto
Sabrina Ehlert
Mike Farah
Stephen Feder
Erica Fishman
Ashley N. Flores
Peter Friedlander
Mark Gill
Amy Gravitt
Marsha Greene
Devin Griffin (EVP & General Manager of BET+)
Aaron Hart
Melody Hildebrandt
Erica Huggins
Steve Jelley
Valerie Johnson-Redrow
Barry Jossen
Jennifer Kawaja
Mark Kimsey
Charles D. King
Mike Larocca
Karen Baker Landers, Mpse
Dan Lin
Seth MacFarlane
Michael Minkler, Cas
Jordana Mollick
DanTram Nguyen
Arnold Pinnock
Mark Resteghini
Jason Richman
Joel Sloss
Curt Sobel, Mpse
Christina Lee Storm
Rabia Sultana
Catherine Tait
Julius Tennon
Chris Thomes
Nikola Todorovic (Co-founder & CEO at Wonder Dynamics)
Diana Williams
Tonya Williams
Philipp Wolf
David W. Zucker
Previously, May 13 Pm: After being on hiatus for the last two years during Covid, the Producers Guild of America (PGA)’s 12th annual Produced By Conference has announced its first round of speakers. The event is taking place on Saturday, June 11 and Sunday, June 12 at the Fox Studio Lot in Century City.
Those panelists include Oscar winner Viola Davis; veteran producer Julius Tennon (President and Co-Founder of JuVee Productions; The First Lady); animation heavyweight Seth MacFarlane; pioneering producer Charles D. King; tentpole-maker Dan Lin; legendary producer Stephanie Allain; master of television Betsy Beers; comedy leader Mike Farah; IP chief Jason Richman; producing innovator Mark Kimsey (Co-CEO of Electromagnetic Productions); actor and producer Aml Ameen (Executive Producer/ Actor – The Porter; Actor – I May Destroy You; Producer/ Actor – Boxing Day) with more to be announced soon.
Produced By will feature panels, Q&As, a networking reception, its Mentoring Roundtables, and the return of the Pitch Perfect session, during which a handful of pre-selected attendees pitch their projects live in front of an audience of leading producers and executives.
The confirmed participants in the Mentor Roundtables are: Insecure producer Deniese Davis; producing legend Gary Goetzman; Academy Award-nominated producer Fred Berger; Daniels producer Jonathan Wang; James Lopez; and Farah, with more to be announced.
New for this year’s conference is the Producers One-on-One engagement, which connects PGA members with an experienced producer for a one-on-one conversation. This is designed for members to seek thoughtful advice about specific projects they are producing. Additionally, for the first time, PGA Create, the Producers Guild’s program supporting emerging and mid-career creative producers from underrepresented backgrounds, will bring together its 35 PGA Create scripted and documentary fellows for a day-long set of networking opportunities supported by the program’s lead sponsor, Google.
- 5/24/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Will Smith’s Westbrook Studios and David Oyelowo’s Yoruba Saxon have partnered with Netflix to produce the film adaptation of “Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun.”
Based on the upcoming book by British-Nigerian author, journalist and hair care educator Tọlá Okogwu, “Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun” tells the tale of a teenager who learns she has powers and travels to Nigeria to learn more about her origins, where she discovers a threat to her newfound magical community.
Described as “Black Panther” meets “X-Men” or “Percy Jackson,” the book is the first in an action-packed series for middle-grade children and will be published by Simon & Schuster in the U.S. and U.K. this June. Okogwu is represented by CAA and Claire Wilson at Rcw Literary Agency.
Ola Shokunbi is set to write the film adaptation after helping to bring “Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun” to Netflix.
Based on the upcoming book by British-Nigerian author, journalist and hair care educator Tọlá Okogwu, “Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun” tells the tale of a teenager who learns she has powers and travels to Nigeria to learn more about her origins, where she discovers a threat to her newfound magical community.
Described as “Black Panther” meets “X-Men” or “Percy Jackson,” the book is the first in an action-packed series for middle-grade children and will be published by Simon & Schuster in the U.S. and U.K. this June. Okogwu is represented by CAA and Claire Wilson at Rcw Literary Agency.
Ola Shokunbi is set to write the film adaptation after helping to bring “Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun” to Netflix.
- 2/16/2022
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Jeff Huang and Carl Choi, entrepreneurs and lifelong fans of comic book, fantasy/sci-fi, and horror storytelling, have formed Six Studios as a genre-focused content company. In its first major content move, the company has acquired rights to the first six books in Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts’ international bestselling fantasy book series The Riftwar Cycle for television. Writers Hannah Friedman, Jacob Pinion and Nick Bernardone are attached to adapt the books for a potential series.
The Riftwar Saga series, considered one of the best known pieces of fantasy IP not yet adapted for the screen, started with the 1982 publication of Feist’s Magician, the first of what now spans more than 30 books and short stories. They have sold more than...
The Riftwar Saga series, considered one of the best known pieces of fantasy IP not yet adapted for the screen, started with the 1982 publication of Feist’s Magician, the first of what now spans more than 30 books and short stories. They have sold more than...
- 2/2/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions has unveiled its next round of projects in development at Netflix.
Among the new film and series projects in the works are an adaptation of the Mohsin Hamid novel “Exit West” starring Riz Ahmed, a science fiction film written by Ola Shokunbi, a docuseries about National Parks and a series adaptation of the forthcoming novel “Firekeeper’s Daughter.”
“We created Higher Ground to tell great stories,” the former president and first lady said in a statement. “This group of projects builds upon that goal and the incredible path forged by films like Crip Camp, Becoming, and the Oscar-winning American Factory. From science fiction to the beauty of our natural world to the relationships that define us, Higher Ground continues to strive for fresh perspectives, compelling characters, and a healthy dose of inspiration. We couldn’t be more proud to team up with...
Among the new film and series projects in the works are an adaptation of the Mohsin Hamid novel “Exit West” starring Riz Ahmed, a science fiction film written by Ola Shokunbi, a docuseries about National Parks and a series adaptation of the forthcoming novel “Firekeeper’s Daughter.”
“We created Higher Ground to tell great stories,” the former president and first lady said in a statement. “This group of projects builds upon that goal and the incredible path forged by films like Crip Camp, Becoming, and the Oscar-winning American Factory. From science fiction to the beauty of our natural world to the relationships that define us, Higher Ground continues to strive for fresh perspectives, compelling characters, and a healthy dose of inspiration. We couldn’t be more proud to team up with...
- 2/5/2021
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s production company Higher Ground Productions has set its latest slate of film and TV projects for Netflix.
The streamer is developing two TV series and four feature films as part of the slate.
On the TV side, Reverie and Extant creator Mickey Fisher is adapting Firekeeper’s Daughter, the debut YA thriller from Angeline Boulley. The book follows an 18-year-old Native girl as she reluctantly goes undercover in a police investigation on her Ojibwe reservation. Fisher will serve as showrunner and co-write with Wenonah Wilms, the Horsehead Girls writer who is also from the Ojibwe tribe and will also act as exec producer.
Great National Parks is a natural history docuseries that comes from Blue Planet II filmmaker James Honeyborne. The series, which is produced with Wild Space Productions, will explore some of the most wondrous national parks and wild spaces on Earth...
The streamer is developing two TV series and four feature films as part of the slate.
On the TV side, Reverie and Extant creator Mickey Fisher is adapting Firekeeper’s Daughter, the debut YA thriller from Angeline Boulley. The book follows an 18-year-old Native girl as she reluctantly goes undercover in a police investigation on her Ojibwe reservation. Fisher will serve as showrunner and co-write with Wenonah Wilms, the Horsehead Girls writer who is also from the Ojibwe tribe and will also act as exec producer.
Great National Parks is a natural history docuseries that comes from Blue Planet II filmmaker James Honeyborne. The series, which is produced with Wild Space Productions, will explore some of the most wondrous national parks and wild spaces on Earth...
- 2/5/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s production company, Higher Ground Productions, has set a slate of new projects under their deal with Netflix.
The new slate encompasses both TV and film projects, including a film adaptation of Mohsin Hamid’s critically-acclaimed novel “Exit West” and a biopic on Tenzing Norgay, who was the first person to reach the peak of Mount Everest alongside Sir Edmund Hillary. The company is also prepping a U.S. National Parks docuseries and a series adaptation of the Angeline Boulley book “Firekeeper’s Daughter.”
The full description of all the projects can be found below. They are currently in different stages of development, to be released over the next several years.
“We created Higher Ground to tell great stories,” the Obamas said. “This group of projects builds upon that goal and the incredible path forged by films like ‘Crip Camp,’ ‘Becoming,’ and the Oscar-winning ‘American Factory.
The new slate encompasses both TV and film projects, including a film adaptation of Mohsin Hamid’s critically-acclaimed novel “Exit West” and a biopic on Tenzing Norgay, who was the first person to reach the peak of Mount Everest alongside Sir Edmund Hillary. The company is also prepping a U.S. National Parks docuseries and a series adaptation of the Angeline Boulley book “Firekeeper’s Daughter.”
The full description of all the projects can be found below. They are currently in different stages of development, to be released over the next several years.
“We created Higher Ground to tell great stories,” the Obamas said. “This group of projects builds upon that goal and the incredible path forged by films like ‘Crip Camp,’ ‘Becoming,’ and the Oscar-winning ‘American Factory.
- 2/5/2021
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Pipeline includes Satellite, The Young Wife.
Australian high-altitude director Jennifer Peedom’s Everest feature Tenzing has landed at Netflix under the streamer’s deal with former president Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions (Hgp).
The feature is one of several film and TV projects announced on the Higher Ground slate on Friday (February 5) that includes Oscar contender Riz Ahmed (Sound Of Metal) in the thriller Exit West, and a sci-fi from Rian Johnson (Knives Out) and his producer Ram Bergman.
Tenzing is based on the true story of Tenzing Norgay, the Sherpa who accompanied Edmund Hillary on...
Australian high-altitude director Jennifer Peedom’s Everest feature Tenzing has landed at Netflix under the streamer’s deal with former president Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions (Hgp).
The feature is one of several film and TV projects announced on the Higher Ground slate on Friday (February 5) that includes Oscar contender Riz Ahmed (Sound Of Metal) in the thriller Exit West, and a sci-fi from Rian Johnson (Knives Out) and his producer Ram Bergman.
Tenzing is based on the true story of Tenzing Norgay, the Sherpa who accompanied Edmund Hillary on...
- 2/5/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Leopold Hughes and Nikos Karamigios have been named producers at T-Street, the indie studio run by Knives Out filmmaker Rian Johnson and partner Ram Bergman.
T-Street has been beefing up its stable and in November saw the addition of Kiri Hart, Stephen Feder and Ben LeClair as producers to the lineup. (The studio is financially backed by Valence Media, which is also the parent company of The Hollywood Reporter.)
Hughes and Karamigios were assistants to Johnson and Bergman, respectively, before moving up the ranks and acting as associate producers on Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi and then co-producers on Knives ...
T-Street has been beefing up its stable and in November saw the addition of Kiri Hart, Stephen Feder and Ben LeClair as producers to the lineup. (The studio is financially backed by Valence Media, which is also the parent company of The Hollywood Reporter.)
Hughes and Karamigios were assistants to Johnson and Bergman, respectively, before moving up the ranks and acting as associate producers on Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi and then co-producers on Knives ...
Leopold Hughes and Nikos Karamigios have been named producers at T-Street, the indie studio run by Knives Out filmmaker Rian Johnson and partner Ram Bergman.
T-Street has been beefing up its stable and in November saw the addition of Kiri Hart, Stephen Feder and Ben LeClair as producers to the lineup. (The studio is financially backed by Valence Media, which is also the parent company of The Hollywood Reporter.)
Hughes and Karamigios were assistants to Johnson and Bergman, respectively, before moving up the ranks and acting as associate producers on Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi and then co-producers on Knives ...
T-Street has been beefing up its stable and in November saw the addition of Kiri Hart, Stephen Feder and Ben LeClair as producers to the lineup. (The studio is financially backed by Valence Media, which is also the parent company of The Hollywood Reporter.)
Hughes and Karamigios were assistants to Johnson and Bergman, respectively, before moving up the ranks and acting as associate producers on Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi and then co-producers on Knives ...
Kiri Hart, Stephen Feder and Ben LeClair have been named producers at T-Street, the indie studio launched by the Knives Out tandem of Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman with funding from Valence Media.
Hart, Feder and LeClair bring a wide range of experience across all genres, and will spearhead films of all sizes and scales, championing storytellers with distinct voices, and building long-term partnerships with filmmakers. Producers at T-Street will oversee film projects from the earliest stages of inception all the way through production and release.
“We wanted T-Street to be a place where filmmakers would feel supported throughout the entire process. That thinking led us to Kiri, Stephen, and Ben, who we’ve been lucky enough to work with in different capacities over the years,” said Johnson and Bergman. “They are not only experienced producers committed to taking the best possible care of filmmakers and their projects, they...
Hart, Feder and LeClair bring a wide range of experience across all genres, and will spearhead films of all sizes and scales, championing storytellers with distinct voices, and building long-term partnerships with filmmakers. Producers at T-Street will oversee film projects from the earliest stages of inception all the way through production and release.
“We wanted T-Street to be a place where filmmakers would feel supported throughout the entire process. That thinking led us to Kiri, Stephen, and Ben, who we’ve been lucky enough to work with in different capacities over the years,” said Johnson and Bergman. “They are not only experienced producers committed to taking the best possible care of filmmakers and their projects, they...
- 11/14/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman’s independent studio, T-Street, has landed producers Kiri Hart, Stephen Feder and Ben LeClair, who will spearhead upcoming films at the company.
Currently, Johnson and Bergman are preparing for the release of their new films, “Knives Out,” which will be released on November 27. It stars Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis and Toni Collette, and was written and directed by Johnson.
Hart, Feder and LeClair will champion storytellers and build long-term partnerships with filmmakers. They will oversee projects at T-Street from the early stages of inception all the way until its release.
Also Read: 'Knives Out' Stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette, Don Johnson on Chris Evans' 'Eat S--' Scene: 'That Was Particularly Spicy' (Exclusive Video)
“We wanted T-Street to be a place where filmmakers would feel supported throughout the entire process,” Johnson and Bergman said in a statement.
Currently, Johnson and Bergman are preparing for the release of their new films, “Knives Out,” which will be released on November 27. It stars Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis and Toni Collette, and was written and directed by Johnson.
Hart, Feder and LeClair will champion storytellers and build long-term partnerships with filmmakers. They will oversee projects at T-Street from the early stages of inception all the way until its release.
Also Read: 'Knives Out' Stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette, Don Johnson on Chris Evans' 'Eat S--' Scene: 'That Was Particularly Spicy' (Exclusive Video)
“We wanted T-Street to be a place where filmmakers would feel supported throughout the entire process,” Johnson and Bergman said in a statement.
- 11/14/2019
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman are expanding their T-Street studio with Lucasfilm veterans Kiri Hart and Stephen Feder, along with Ben LeClair.
Johnson is best known for directing and writing 2017’s “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” which Bergman produced with Kathleen Kennedy. The duo is teamed via T-Street on the upcoming “Knives Out,” starring Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas and Jamie Lee Curtis. Hart, Feder and LeClair will serve as producers for T-Street.
Johnson and Bergman said, “We wanted T-Street to be a place where filmmakers would feel supported throughout the entire process. That thinking led us to Kiri, Stephen and Ben, who we’ve been lucky enough to work with in different capacities over the years. They are not only experienced producers committed to taking the best possible care of filmmakers and their projects, they also happen to be really good people who share our passion for making movies.
Johnson is best known for directing and writing 2017’s “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” which Bergman produced with Kathleen Kennedy. The duo is teamed via T-Street on the upcoming “Knives Out,” starring Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas and Jamie Lee Curtis. Hart, Feder and LeClair will serve as producers for T-Street.
Johnson and Bergman said, “We wanted T-Street to be a place where filmmakers would feel supported throughout the entire process. That thinking led us to Kiri, Stephen and Ben, who we’ve been lucky enough to work with in different capacities over the years. They are not only experienced producers committed to taking the best possible care of filmmakers and their projects, they also happen to be really good people who share our passion for making movies.
- 11/14/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Kiri Hart, Stephen Feder, Ben LeClair to oversee feature projects from inception to release.
As they gear up for the release of Knives Out later this month, Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman have hired three producers to their T-Street production label.
New arrivals Kiri Hart, Stephen Feder and Ben LeClair will oversee feature projects from inception to release.
Hart most recently served as Lucasfilm’s senior vice-president of development, where she established the Lucasfilm Story Group and oversaw creative development on all Star Wars content across film, animated television, publishing, gaming, immersive media, and theme parks.
She co-produced Johnson’s Star...
As they gear up for the release of Knives Out later this month, Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman have hired three producers to their T-Street production label.
New arrivals Kiri Hart, Stephen Feder and Ben LeClair will oversee feature projects from inception to release.
Hart most recently served as Lucasfilm’s senior vice-president of development, where she established the Lucasfilm Story Group and oversaw creative development on all Star Wars content across film, animated television, publishing, gaming, immersive media, and theme parks.
She co-produced Johnson’s Star...
- 11/14/2019
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Just as they prepare for the launch of their latest movie, Knives Out, filmmaker Rian Johnson and producer Ram Bergman are beefing up T-Street, their new independent studio.
Kiri Hart, Stephen Feder and Ben LeClair have been named producers at the company, which announced the hiring on Thursday.
According to T-Street, Hart, Feder and LeClair will "spearhead films of all sizes and scales, championing storytellers with distinct voices and building long-term partnerships with filmmakers." The trio will shepherd projects from inception through production to release.
In a statement, Johnson and Bergman said, "We wanted T-Street to be a ...
Kiri Hart, Stephen Feder and Ben LeClair have been named producers at the company, which announced the hiring on Thursday.
According to T-Street, Hart, Feder and LeClair will "spearhead films of all sizes and scales, championing storytellers with distinct voices and building long-term partnerships with filmmakers." The trio will shepherd projects from inception through production to release.
In a statement, Johnson and Bergman said, "We wanted T-Street to be a ...
- 11/14/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Just as they prepare for the launch of their latest movie, Knives Out, filmmaker Rian Johnson and producer Ram Bergman are beefing up T-Street, their new independent studio.
Kiri Hart, Stephen Feder and Ben LeClair have been named producers at the company, which announced the hiring on Thursday.
According to T-Street, Hart, Feder and LeClair will "spearhead films of all sizes and scales, championing storytellers with distinct voices and building long-term partnerships with filmmakers." The trio will shepherd projects from inception through production to release.
In a statement, Johnson and Bergman said, "We wanted T-Street to be a ...
Kiri Hart, Stephen Feder and Ben LeClair have been named producers at the company, which announced the hiring on Thursday.
According to T-Street, Hart, Feder and LeClair will "spearhead films of all sizes and scales, championing storytellers with distinct voices and building long-term partnerships with filmmakers." The trio will shepherd projects from inception through production to release.
In a statement, Johnson and Bergman said, "We wanted T-Street to be a ...
- 11/14/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Richard Linklater made headlines last month by announcing he’d direct Robert Downey Jr. in a new untitled project, but it appears he’s making some time to work with two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett first.
Linklater originally boarded an adaptation of Maria Semple‘s novel “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” two years ago, with Cate Blanchett coming on board to star in the lead role in November 2015. News around the project has remained virtually silent ever since, but now production is gearing up to start this summer.
Read More: Robert Downey Jr. Teaming Up With Director Richard Linklater for ‘Man of the People’ Podcast Film Adaptation
The book centers around an agoraphobic architect who goes missing and the journey her 15-year-old daughter goes on to try and find her. “The Spectacular Now” and “The Fault in Our Stars” screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber wrote the original script,...
Linklater originally boarded an adaptation of Maria Semple‘s novel “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” two years ago, with Cate Blanchett coming on board to star in the lead role in November 2015. News around the project has remained virtually silent ever since, but now production is gearing up to start this summer.
Read More: Robert Downey Jr. Teaming Up With Director Richard Linklater for ‘Man of the People’ Podcast Film Adaptation
The book centers around an agoraphobic architect who goes missing and the journey her 15-year-old daughter goes on to try and find her. “The Spectacular Now” and “The Fault in Our Stars” screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber wrote the original script,...
- 3/10/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Annapurna International said on Thursday it had sold out all territories outside the Us on the Four By Two Films comedy remake to star Sacha Baron Cohen.
eOne has acquired the UK, Australia, Canada and Benelux, while Sun will distribute in Latin America, Constantin in Germany, and Metropolitan in France.
Eagle has acquired Klown for Italy, ProRom for Eastern Europe, Nordisk for Scandinavia, and Tri Pictures for Spain, among other territory deals.
Screen broke the story during the market that Annapurna International introduced the new project and hosted British comic Baron Cohen at a buyers’ presentation. The company claimed that so far Klown is the only new title introduced at the recent Afm to completely sell out.
It is understood the English-language remake will be a semi-improvisational take on Mikkel Norgaard’s record-breaking 2010 Danish comedy about a man desperate to prove his worth to his girlfriend.
Norgaard followed that up with Klown Forever in 2015, in which the characters...
eOne has acquired the UK, Australia, Canada and Benelux, while Sun will distribute in Latin America, Constantin in Germany, and Metropolitan in France.
Eagle has acquired Klown for Italy, ProRom for Eastern Europe, Nordisk for Scandinavia, and Tri Pictures for Spain, among other territory deals.
Screen broke the story during the market that Annapurna International introduced the new project and hosted British comic Baron Cohen at a buyers’ presentation. The company claimed that so far Klown is the only new title introduced at the recent Afm to completely sell out.
It is understood the English-language remake will be a semi-improvisational take on Mikkel Norgaard’s record-breaking 2010 Danish comedy about a man desperate to prove his worth to his girlfriend.
Norgaard followed that up with Klown Forever in 2015, in which the characters...
- 11/17/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Annapurna wins bidding war for comedy set to star Sacha Baron Cohen; CAA reps Us rights.
Megan Ellison’s Annapurna has come out on top in a heated bidding war at the Afm for sales and English-language remake rights to hit R-rated Danish comedy Klown (2010), which has Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen attached in the lead role.
Annapurna’s Megan Ellison will produce with Baron Cohen and Todd Schulman under their Four By Two production company; Scott Stuber is also a producer on the project.
Mikkel Norgaard’s local box office smash (the film is the highest-grossing local film in Danish history), produced by Zentropa, follows a man who tries to prove his fatherhood potential to his pregnant girlfriend by ‘kidnapping’ her 12-year-old nephew and tags along to his best friend’s debauched weekend canoe trip.
Baron Cohen has long been a fan of the original film and its writers and is expected to join Annapurna...
Megan Ellison’s Annapurna has come out on top in a heated bidding war at the Afm for sales and English-language remake rights to hit R-rated Danish comedy Klown (2010), which has Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen attached in the lead role.
Annapurna’s Megan Ellison will produce with Baron Cohen and Todd Schulman under their Four By Two production company; Scott Stuber is also a producer on the project.
Mikkel Norgaard’s local box office smash (the film is the highest-grossing local film in Danish history), produced by Zentropa, follows a man who tries to prove his fatherhood potential to his pregnant girlfriend by ‘kidnapping’ her 12-year-old nephew and tags along to his best friend’s debauched weekend canoe trip.
Baron Cohen has long been a fan of the original film and its writers and is expected to join Annapurna...
- 11/4/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay) andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Annapurna wins bidding war for comedy set to star Sacha Baron Cohen; CAA reps Us rights.
Megan Ellison’s Annapurna has come out on top in a heated bidding war at the Afm for sales and English-language remake rights to hit R-rated Danish comedy Klown (2010), which has Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen attached in the lead role.
Annapurna’s Megan Ellison will produce with Baron Cohen and Todd Schulman under their Four By Two production company; Scott Stuber is also a producer on the project.
Mikkel Norgaard’s local box office smash (the film is the highest-grossing local film in Danish history), produced by Zentropa, follows a man who tries to prove his fatherhood potential to his pregnant girlfriend by ‘kidnapping’ her 12-year-old nephew and tags along to his best friend’s debauched weekend canoe trip.
Baron Cohen has long been a fan of the original film and its writers and is expected to join Annapurna...
Megan Ellison’s Annapurna has come out on top in a heated bidding war at the Afm for sales and English-language remake rights to hit R-rated Danish comedy Klown (2010), which has Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen attached in the lead role.
Annapurna’s Megan Ellison will produce with Baron Cohen and Todd Schulman under their Four By Two production company; Scott Stuber is also a producer on the project.
Mikkel Norgaard’s local box office smash (the film is the highest-grossing local film in Danish history), produced by Zentropa, follows a man who tries to prove his fatherhood potential to his pregnant girlfriend by ‘kidnapping’ her 12-year-old nephew and tags along to his best friend’s debauched weekend canoe trip.
Baron Cohen has long been a fan of the original film and its writers and is expected to join Annapurna...
- 11/4/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay) andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Annapurna wins bidding war for comedy set to star Sacha Baron Cohen; CAA reps Us rights.
Megan Ellison’s Annapurna has come out on top in a heated bidding war at the Afm for sales and English-language remake rights to hit R-rated Danish comedy Klown (2010), which has Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen attached in the lead role.
Annapurna’s Megan Ellison will produce with Baron Cohen and Todd Schulman under their Four By Two production company; Scott Stuber is also a producer on the project.
Mikkel Norgaard’s local box office smash (the film is the highest-grossing local film in Danish history), produced by Zentropa, follows a man who tries to prove his fatherhood potential to his pregnant girlfriend by ‘kidnapping’ her 12-year-old nephew and tags along to his best friend’s debauched weekend canoe trip.
Baron Cohen has long been a fan of the original film and its writers and is expected to join Annapurna...
Megan Ellison’s Annapurna has come out on top in a heated bidding war at the Afm for sales and English-language remake rights to hit R-rated Danish comedy Klown (2010), which has Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen attached in the lead role.
Annapurna’s Megan Ellison will produce with Baron Cohen and Todd Schulman under their Four By Two production company; Scott Stuber is also a producer on the project.
Mikkel Norgaard’s local box office smash (the film is the highest-grossing local film in Danish history), produced by Zentropa, follows a man who tries to prove his fatherhood potential to his pregnant girlfriend by ‘kidnapping’ her 12-year-old nephew and tags along to his best friend’s debauched weekend canoe trip.
Baron Cohen has long been a fan of the original film and its writers and is expected to join Annapurna...
- 11/4/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay) andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Annapurna wins bidding war for comedy set to star Sacha Baron Cohen; CAA to rep Us rights.
Megan Ellison’s Annapurna has come out on top in a heated bidding war at the Afm for sales and English-language remake rights to hit R-rated Danish comedy Klown (2010), which has Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen attached in the lead role.
Annapurna’s Megan Ellison will produce with Baron Cohen and Todd Schulman under their Four By Two production company; Scott Stuber is also a producer on the project.
Mikkel Norgaard’s local box office hit (the film is the highest-grossing in Danish history), produced by Zentropa, follows a man who tries to prove his fatherhood potential to his pregnant girlfriend by ‘kidnapping’ her 12-year-old nephew and tags along to his best friend’s debauched weekend canoe trip.
Baron Cohen has long been a fan of the original film and its writers and is expected to join Annapurna at their...
Megan Ellison’s Annapurna has come out on top in a heated bidding war at the Afm for sales and English-language remake rights to hit R-rated Danish comedy Klown (2010), which has Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen attached in the lead role.
Annapurna’s Megan Ellison will produce with Baron Cohen and Todd Schulman under their Four By Two production company; Scott Stuber is also a producer on the project.
Mikkel Norgaard’s local box office hit (the film is the highest-grossing in Danish history), produced by Zentropa, follows a man who tries to prove his fatherhood potential to his pregnant girlfriend by ‘kidnapping’ her 12-year-old nephew and tags along to his best friend’s debauched weekend canoe trip.
Baron Cohen has long been a fan of the original film and its writers and is expected to join Annapurna at their...
- 11/4/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay) andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Annapurna wins bidding war for comedy set to star Sacha Baron Cohen; CAA to rep Us rights.
Megan Ellison’s Annapurna has come out on top in a heated bidding war at the Afm for sales and English-language remake rights to hit R-rated Danish comedy Klown (2010), which has Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen attached in the lead role.
Annapurna’s Megan Ellison will produce with Baron Cohen and Todd Schulman under their Four By Two production company; Scott Stuber is also a producer on the project.
Mikkel Norgaard’s local box office hit (the film is the highest-grossing in Danish history), produced by Zentropa, follows a man who tries to prove his fatherhood potential to his pregnant girlfriend by ‘kidnapping’ her 12-year-old nephew and tags along to his best friend’s debauched weekend canoe trip.
Baron Cohen has long been a fan of the original film and its writers and is expected to join Annapurna at their...
Megan Ellison’s Annapurna has come out on top in a heated bidding war at the Afm for sales and English-language remake rights to hit R-rated Danish comedy Klown (2010), which has Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen attached in the lead role.
Annapurna’s Megan Ellison will produce with Baron Cohen and Todd Schulman under their Four By Two production company; Scott Stuber is also a producer on the project.
Mikkel Norgaard’s local box office hit (the film is the highest-grossing in Danish history), produced by Zentropa, follows a man who tries to prove his fatherhood potential to his pregnant girlfriend by ‘kidnapping’ her 12-year-old nephew and tags along to his best friend’s debauched weekend canoe trip.
Baron Cohen has long been a fan of the original film and its writers and is expected to join Annapurna at their...
- 11/4/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay) andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Annapurna wins bidding war for comedy set to star Sacha Baron Cohen; CAA to rep Us rights.
Megan Ellison’s Annapurna has come out on top in a heated bidding war at the Afm for sales and English-language remake rights to hit R-rated Danish comedy Klown (2010), which has Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen attached in the lead role.
Annapurna’s Megan Ellison will produce with Baron Cohen and Todd Schulman under their Four By Two production company; Scott Stuber is also a producer on the project.
Mikkel Norgaard’s local box office hit (the film is the highest-grossing in Danish history), produced by Zentropa, follows a man who tries to prove his fatherhood potential to his pregnant girlfriend by ‘kidnapping’ her 12-year-old nephew and tags along to his best friend’s debauched weekend canoe trip.
Baron Cohen has long been a fan of the original film and its writers and is expected to join Annapurna at their...
Megan Ellison’s Annapurna has come out on top in a heated bidding war at the Afm for sales and English-language remake rights to hit R-rated Danish comedy Klown (2010), which has Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen attached in the lead role.
Annapurna’s Megan Ellison will produce with Baron Cohen and Todd Schulman under their Four By Two production company; Scott Stuber is also a producer on the project.
Mikkel Norgaard’s local box office hit (the film is the highest-grossing in Danish history), produced by Zentropa, follows a man who tries to prove his fatherhood potential to his pregnant girlfriend by ‘kidnapping’ her 12-year-old nephew and tags along to his best friend’s debauched weekend canoe trip.
Baron Cohen has long been a fan of the original film and its writers and is expected to join Annapurna at their...
- 11/4/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay) andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
After making a big splash in the independent film community by personally financing, expertly producing, or generally saving art house driven films like "Killing Them Softly," "The Master," "American Hustle," and the just announced Cannes-inclusion "Foxcatcher," Megan Ellison is taking her first stab at television. Her company, Annapurna Pictures, is developing a TV series based around the lives of Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich, two iconic Old Hollywood actresses whose lives intersected not only with each other but also many important figures of the 1930s and '40s. Angela Robinson ("True Blood") and Alex Kondracke ("The L Word"), both of whom worked on HBO's "Hung," are writing the series with Ellison as executive producer and Annapurna's Stephen Feder overseeing production as well as day-to-day operations. "We're so excited this project found a home at Annapurna," Robinson and Kondracke told Variety. "We couldn't imagine a better partner than Megan Ellison and the folks at.
- 4/17/2014
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures is producing its first major television project with writers from “True Blood” and “The L Word,” the company said Wednesday. Angela Robinson (“True Blood,” “Hung”) and Alex Kondracke (“Hung,” “The L Word”) are writing the project, which focuses on the intersecting lives of film legends Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich in Hollywood's Golden Age. Also read: Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures Terminates Financial Involvement in ‘Terminator: Genesis’ Ellison will serve as executive producer, and Annapurna's Stephen Feder will be the executive overseeing day-to-day development and production. “We're so excited this project found a home at Annapurna,...
- 4/16/2014
- by L.A. Ross
- The Wrap
Press Release: Champaign, Ill. -- Terrence Malick's 1978 film "Days of Heaven" won an Oscar for best cinematography, and Roger Ebert likely found that no surprise. It is "above all one of the most beautiful films ever made," Ebert said in a 1997 review. So it's only appropriate that the film will open the 15th annual Roger Ebert's Film Festival on April 17 in the big-screen, newly renovated Virginia Theater in downtown Champaign.
Also among the 12 features and two shorts to be screened during the five-day "Ebertfest" -- running through April 21 at the Virginia and at the University of Illinois -- will be a kabuki-inspired drama from Japan; a recent silent film from Spain that deserved as much attention as "The Artist," according to Ebert; a sympathetic take on the "mad" painter Vincent Van Gogh, directed by frequent festival guest Paul Cox; and a documentary, which will close the festival, about...
Also among the 12 features and two shorts to be screened during the five-day "Ebertfest" -- running through April 21 at the Virginia and at the University of Illinois -- will be a kabuki-inspired drama from Japan; a recent silent film from Spain that deserved as much attention as "The Artist," according to Ebert; a sympathetic take on the "mad" painter Vincent Van Gogh, directed by frequent festival guest Paul Cox; and a documentary, which will close the festival, about...
- 5/3/2013
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
After a late day three (the Q&A didn’t get out until about midnight), many of the attendees to Ebertfest, myself included, were a bit on the sluggish side this morning. The first screening was set for 11am, which hardly seems early on paper, but for anyone catching up with friends at the festival or, in my case, writing up articles into the wee hours, 11am came a bit too soon. Honestly, many of us probably were not in a particularly good headspace to approach our first screening of the day, the silent, black and white film Blancanieves.
Fortunately, as can happen at Ebertfest, we were treated to a surprise when, rather than starting with the customary introduction to the first film, Chaz Ebert came on stage and announced that, inspired by Tilda Swinton, we were kicking things off with some dancing in the aisles. Barry White’s “My First,...
Fortunately, as can happen at Ebertfest, we were treated to a surprise when, rather than starting with the customary introduction to the first film, Chaz Ebert came on stage and announced that, inspired by Tilda Swinton, we were kicking things off with some dancing in the aisles. Barry White’s “My First,...
- 4/22/2013
- by Kate Kulzick
- SoundOnSight
Press Release: Champaign, Ill. -- Terrence Malick's 1978 film "Days of Heaven" won an Oscar for best cinematography, and Roger Ebert likely found that no surprise. It is "above all one of the most beautiful films ever made," Ebert said in a 1997 review. So it's only appropriate that the film will open the 15th annual Roger Ebert's Film Festival on April 17 in the big-screen, newly renovated Virginia Theater in downtown Champaign.
Also among the 12 features and two shorts to be screened during the five-day "Ebertfest" -- running through April 21 at the Virginia and at the University of Illinois -- will be a kabuki-inspired drama from Japan; a recent silent film from Spain that deserved as much attention as "The Artist," according to Ebert; a sympathetic take on the "mad" painter Vincent Van Gogh, directed by frequent festival guest Paul Cox; and a documentary, which will close the festival, about...
Also among the 12 features and two shorts to be screened during the five-day "Ebertfest" -- running through April 21 at the Virginia and at the University of Illinois -- will be a kabuki-inspired drama from Japan; a recent silent film from Spain that deserved as much attention as "The Artist," according to Ebert; a sympathetic take on the "mad" painter Vincent Van Gogh, directed by frequent festival guest Paul Cox; and a documentary, which will close the festival, about...
- 3/23/2013
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
Kino Lorber has acquired Us rights to Kumaré, the Vikram Gandhi-directed documentary which won 2011 South by Southwest’s Audience Award. Disposable Television’s Brendan Colthurst and Bryan Carmel produced and Stephen Feder was exec producer. Kumaré is a wise guru from the East who indoctrinated a group of followers in the West. Kumaré, is an alter ego for the film’s director, who impersonated a spiritual leader for the sake of a social experiment designed to challenge one of the most widely accepted taboos: that only a tiny “1%” can connect the rest of the world to a higher power. Concealing his true identity from everyone he meets, Kumaré forges profound and spiritual connections with people from all walks of life. At the height of his popularity, Kumaré unveils his true identity to a core group of disciples who are knee-deep in personal transformation. Will they accept his final teaching...
- 12/22/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Kino Lorber will distribute Vikram Gandhi' Kumaré in the U.S., which made its debut at the South by Southwest film festival this year, reports Variety. Pic earned the Audience Award in the feature documentary category, and won the Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Napa Film Festival. Disposable Television's Brendan Colthurst and Bryan Carmel produced the film while Stephen Feder executive produces. Kino Lorber made the announcement today. Kumaré is an enlightened guru from the East who builds a following of disciples in the West. But Kumaré is not real. He is an American filmmaker named Vikram Gandhi, who has transformed himself into Kumaré as the centerpiece of a social experiment designed to explore and test one of the world's most sacred taboos. Concealing his true identity from all he meets, Kumaré forges profound, spiritual connections with real people from all walks of life. At the same time,...
- 12/22/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Kino Lorber will distribute Vikram Gandhi' Kumaré in the U.S., which made its debut at the South by Southwest film festival this year, reports Variety. Pic earned the Audience Award in the feature documentary category, and won the Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Napa Film Festival. Disposable Television's Brendan Colthurst and Bryan Carmel produced the film while Stephen Feder executive produces. Kino Lorber made the announcement today. Kumaré is an enlightened guru from the East who builds a following of disciples in the West. But Kumaré is not real. He is an American filmmaker named Vikram Gandhi, who has transformed himself into Kumaré as the centerpiece of a social experiment designed to explore and test one of the world's most sacred taboos. Concealing his true identity from all he meets, Kumaré forges profound, spiritual connections with real people from all walks of life. At the same time,...
- 12/22/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Kino Lorber will distribute Vikram Gandhi' Kumaré in the U.S., which made its debut at the South by Southwest film festival this year, reports Variety. Pic earned the Audience Award in the feature documentary category, and won the Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Napa Film Festival. Disposable Television's Brendan Colthurst and Bryan Carmel produced the film while Stephen Feder executive produces. Kino Lorber made the announcement today. Kumaré is an enlightened guru from the East who builds a following of disciples in the West. But Kumaré is not real. He is an American filmmaker named Vikram Gandhi, who has transformed himself into Kumaré as the centerpiece of a social experiment designed to explore and test one of the world's most sacred taboos. Concealing his true identity from all he meets, Kumaré forges profound, spiritual connections with real people from all walks of life. At the same time,...
- 12/22/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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