Who got signed, promoted, hired or fired? The Hollywood Reporter’s Rep Sheet rounds up the week in representation news. To submit announcements for consideration, contact rebecca.sun@thr.com.
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Black Klansman screenwriters David Rabinowitz and Charlie Wachtel have signed with Wme. The duo’s debut feature, adapted from Ron Stallworth’s 2014 autobiography of the same name, will be produced by Spike Lee, Jordan Peele and Jason Blum, with Focus Features distributing. Both hailing from East Brunswick, N.J., Wachtel began his career as an assistant for Hollywood firms such as UTA, Benaroya Pictures, Weed Road and Echo Lake, then became...
True story
Black Klansman screenwriters David Rabinowitz and Charlie Wachtel have signed with Wme. The duo’s debut feature, adapted from Ron Stallworth’s 2014 autobiography of the same name, will be produced by Spike Lee, Jordan Peele and Jason Blum, with Focus Features distributing. Both hailing from East Brunswick, N.J., Wachtel began his career as an assistant for Hollywood firms such as UTA, Benaroya Pictures, Weed Road and Echo Lake, then became...
- 10/30/2017
- by Rebecca Sun
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Anne Hathaway is stocking up on O2.
The actress will star in the sci-fi thriller, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed, as a woman who mysteriously wakes up inside a cryogenic chamber and must escape before her air supply runs out.
Christie LeBlanc wrote the script, which is largely devoted to a single performer, and marks her feature film debut. Suzan Bymel and Hathaway are producing with Echo Lake's Adam Riback and James Engle, and Im Global's Stuart Ford and Greg Shapiro will also be producers. Im Global is financing the $10 million project, and CAA is representing domestic rights. No director is currently attached, and production...
The actress will star in the sci-fi thriller, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed, as a woman who mysteriously wakes up inside a cryogenic chamber and must escape before her air supply runs out.
Christie LeBlanc wrote the script, which is largely devoted to a single performer, and marks her feature film debut. Suzan Bymel and Hathaway are producing with Echo Lake's Adam Riback and James Engle, and Im Global's Stuart Ford and Greg Shapiro will also be producers. Im Global is financing the $10 million project, and CAA is representing domestic rights. No director is currently attached, and production...
- 7/20/2017
- by Ashley Lee
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Once the sun comes up over Echo Lake Park, an area outside of downtown Fort Worth, Texas, Judy Obregon starts searching for abandoned pets, mostly dogs, but also the occasional cat, who have been dumped. If she finds them alive, those are the lucky ones, because they get a second chance.
After finding these discarded pets, Judy and her team of volunteers provide them with veterinary care, rehabilitation, loving foster homes and eventually placement into devoted forever families. It’s the ones that are found dead, and must be buried, that break Judy’s heart.
“If there is an animal...
After finding these discarded pets, Judy and her team of volunteers provide them with veterinary care, rehabilitation, loving foster homes and eventually placement into devoted forever families. It’s the ones that are found dead, and must be buried, that break Judy’s heart.
“If there is an animal...
- 6/22/2017
- by Kristen O'Brien
- PEOPLE.com
Writer-director Cheryl Dunye (The Watermelon Woman, Stranger Inside) has signed with Echo Lake Management and Apa. Dunye, who is currently directing episodes of Ava DuVernay’s Queen Sugar for Own, emerged as part of the “New Queer Cinema” wave of young filmmakers in the 1990s. Dunye has made over 15 films including Mommy Is Coming, The Owls, My Baby's Daddy, and HBO's Stranger Inside, which garnered her an Independent Spirit award nomination for Best Director. Her debut…...
- 4/4/2017
- Deadline TV
On the eve of the market, Afm executives said the number of registered UK exhibitors will reach its highest level since 2009 despite concerns over a punishing exchange rate in light of the Brexit vote.
Thirty-eight registered companies represents a year-on-year climb of nearly 16%.
Market chiefs also reported increased attendance from China and Hong Kong, with more than 200 registrants from mainland China and a further 75 or so from Hong Kong on behalf of 90 companies.
Overall 367 exhibiting companies and more than 7,500 attendees from more than 80 countries are expected to arrive in Santa Monica.
A total of 305 films are set to screen with 252 market premieres and 71 world premieres.
The industry programming that runs from November 3-8 will hear from ICM Partners head of international and independent division Jessica Lacy, The Weinstein Company COO David Glasser, Cca co-head of finance Micah Green, Wme Global’s Mark Ankner, Foresight Unlimited president and COO Tamara Birkemoe, Echo Lake’s [link...
Thirty-eight registered companies represents a year-on-year climb of nearly 16%.
Market chiefs also reported increased attendance from China and Hong Kong, with more than 200 registrants from mainland China and a further 75 or so from Hong Kong on behalf of 90 companies.
Overall 367 exhibiting companies and more than 7,500 attendees from more than 80 countries are expected to arrive in Santa Monica.
A total of 305 films are set to screen with 252 market premieres and 71 world premieres.
The industry programming that runs from November 3-8 will hear from ICM Partners head of international and independent division Jessica Lacy, The Weinstein Company COO David Glasser, Cca co-head of finance Micah Green, Wme Global’s Mark Ankner, Foresight Unlimited president and COO Tamara Birkemoe, Echo Lake’s [link...
- 11/1/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Star Wars veteran Mark Hamill has signed with Echo Lake Management for representation in film and television. Hamill, who had gone without theatrical representation for the past two decades while focused on voice-over work, started flirting with retaining a manager earlier this year, following his return to big studio movies with Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens, in which Hamill reprised his star-making role as Luke Skywalker from the original Star Wars trilogy…...
- 10/4/2016
- Deadline TV
Star Wars veteran Mark Hamill has signed with Echo Lake Management for representation in film and television. Hamill, who had gone without theatrical representation for the past two decades while focused on voice-over work, started flirting with retaining a manager earlier this year, following his return to big studio movies with Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens, in which Hamill reprised his star-making role as Luke Skywalker from the original Star Wars trilogy…...
- 10/4/2016
- Deadline
Over 500 screenwriters applied to WeScreenplay’s inaugural Diverse Voices Screenwriting Competition. The competition was designed to encourage writers who are under-represented in Hollywood, according to the WGA diversity report.
“The contest is focused on diversity in entertainment both behind and in front of the camera,” said Co-Founder and Director of WeScreenplay Mark Stasenko in a recent interview with IndieWire. The contest was not limited to women and minority screenwriters, nor by age, as the Diverse Voices competition is also looking for stories that bring diversity in front of the camera as well. A majority of the 50 judges were readers for production companies with on average three years of professional experience.
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“While The Nicholl Fellowship usually has fewer than 30% of their submissions from women writers, Diverse Voices received 60% of our submissions from female writers,...
“The contest is focused on diversity in entertainment both behind and in front of the camera,” said Co-Founder and Director of WeScreenplay Mark Stasenko in a recent interview with IndieWire. The contest was not limited to women and minority screenwriters, nor by age, as the Diverse Voices competition is also looking for stories that bring diversity in front of the camera as well. A majority of the 50 judges were readers for production companies with on average three years of professional experience.
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“While The Nicholl Fellowship usually has fewer than 30% of their submissions from women writers, Diverse Voices received 60% of our submissions from female writers,...
- 7/15/2016
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Echo Lake Entertainment, the company who produced and/or financed such films as Truth, Nebraska and several Pedro Almodovar films, just hired talent manager Peter McGrath and literary manager Adam Riback. In addition, it promoted two others. The 18 year-old company has both management and production/financing divisions. McGrath brings to Echo Lake a diverse list of international actors including Eka Darville (Marvel's Jessica Jones), John Harlan Kim (The Librari…...
- 5/9/2016
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: Echo Lake Entertainment, the company who produced and/or financed such films as Truth, Nebraska and several Pedro Almodovar films, just hired talent manager Peter McGrath and literary manager Adam Riback. In addition, it promoted two others. The 18 year-old company has both management and production/financing divisions. McGrath brings to Echo Lake a diverse list of international actors including Eka Darville (Marvel's Jessica Jones), John Harlan Kim (The Librari…...
- 5/9/2016
- Deadline
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