Margaret Riley, the respected agent, manager and Lighthouse Management & Media partner who served as a producer on the Fox News drama Bombshell, has died. She was 58.
Riley died Tuesday at her home in Brentwood after a private battle with ovarian cancer, her friends Lainie Becky and Matthew Weinberg told The Hollywood Reporter.
Riley was a talent/literary manager at Brillstein Entertainment Partners from October 2006 through March 2016, when she joined Lighthouse Management & Media, which had just been launched by founder and CEO Aleen Keshishian.
“We are devastated by the loss of our colleague and friend Margaret Riley, who was a passionate advocate and champion for artists,” Keshishian said. “We share our deepest condolences and love with her family, friends and clients.”
Riley’s current and former clients over the years have included actors Mark Ruffalo and Bridget Moynahan; CSI creator Anthony Zuiker; directors Susanna Fogel, Stella Meghie and Rj Cutler...
Riley died Tuesday at her home in Brentwood after a private battle with ovarian cancer, her friends Lainie Becky and Matthew Weinberg told The Hollywood Reporter.
Riley was a talent/literary manager at Brillstein Entertainment Partners from October 2006 through March 2016, when she joined Lighthouse Management & Media, which had just been launched by founder and CEO Aleen Keshishian.
“We are devastated by the loss of our colleague and friend Margaret Riley, who was a passionate advocate and champion for artists,” Keshishian said. “We share our deepest condolences and love with her family, friends and clients.”
Riley’s current and former clients over the years have included actors Mark Ruffalo and Bridget Moynahan; CSI creator Anthony Zuiker; directors Susanna Fogel, Stella Meghie and Rj Cutler...
- 1/24/2024
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Japanese animated series “Cowboy Bebop” is getting a live-action adaption from Tomorrow Studios, Deadline reports. Christopher Yost, a writer on “Thor: The Dark World” and “Thor: Ragnarok,” is writing the script. His earlier credits include several animated TV series, including “X-Men: Evolution,” “Fantastic Four: World’s Greatest Heroes” and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.”
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“Cowboy Bebop” is a Western set in space that follows Spike Spiegel and a group of bounty hunter cowboys who go after the biggest criminals in the galaxy, saving the world in a series of misadventures. The remake will be executive produced by Sunrise, which produced the original series, and Tomorrow Studios’ Marty Adelstein, Becky Clements and Matthew Weinberg. Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec, Jeff Pinkner and Scott Rosenberg of Midnight Radio will also executive produce.
The original...
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“Cowboy Bebop” is a Western set in space that follows Spike Spiegel and a group of bounty hunter cowboys who go after the biggest criminals in the galaxy, saving the world in a series of misadventures. The remake will be executive produced by Sunrise, which produced the original series, and Tomorrow Studios’ Marty Adelstein, Becky Clements and Matthew Weinberg. Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec, Jeff Pinkner and Scott Rosenberg of Midnight Radio will also executive produce.
The original...
- 6/6/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
ABC has bought The Bounty, a drama project from CSI creator Anthony E. Zuiker and Brillstein Entertainment Partners. Written by South Beach creator/executive producer Matt Cirulnick, The Bounty centers around one victim’s quest for justice and healing. After her family is murdered, a national frenzy erupts as she inspires America to create the largest bounty in history for the killer’s capture. “The Bounty takes such a fresh approach to the crime show genre by combining the universal theme that we all want justice for the victim with how crowdsourcing plays a very important role in helping law enforcement today,” said Zuiker. Zuiker’s Dare To Pass is producing with ABC Studios, where the company is under an overall deal, and another ABC Studios-based company, Brillstein Entertainment, which partners with Zuiker on all of his development. Zuiker will executive produce alongside Cirulnick, who came up with the original idea,...
- 9/18/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: CSI creator Anthony Zuiker has teamed with Gossip Girl executive producer Sara Goodman for Taboo, a new drama project that has been sold to ABC. It stems from Zuiker’s overall deal with ABC Studios, which has him partnering with studio-based Brillstein Entertainment Partners on development. Taboo, which will be produced by ABC Studios, Brillstein and Zuiker’s Dare To Pass banner, is based on an original idea by Zuiker who is segueing from the procedural world of CSI to serialized drama. To be written by Goodman, it is described as a sexy soap and centers on a stay-at home-mom who goes back to work as an undercover psychological profiler for the FBI, but the job isn’t nearly as dangerous as the sexual obsession she falls into with the man she’s investigating. “Sara Goodman is solid gold, and we are very lucky to have her on board to bring Taboo to life,...
- 8/21/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Anthony E. Zuiker, the creator of the "CSI" franchise, his production company Dare to Pass and Yahoo! Inc today announced that casting and production will officially begin on Cybergeddon , a motion picture event which will bring to life the growing threat of cybercrime. Written by Miles Chapman ( The Tomb , to star Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger), Cybergeddon executive producers include Anthony E. Zuiker, Matthew Weinberg, President, Dare to Pass and Bill O.Dowd, CEO, Dolphin Digital Studios. True to his storytelling form, Zuiker has engaged Norton by Symantec to leverage its technical credibility and security insights to help inform and guide the narrative. "'Cybergeddon' is the evolution of the crime genre," says creator Anthony E. Zuiker....
- 3/21/2012
- Comingsoon.net
Los Angeles- March 21, 2012- Anthony E. Zuiker, the visionary creator of the CSI franchise and his production company Dare to Pass, and Yahoo! Inc, the premier digital media company, today announced that casting and production will officially begin on the much anticipated “Cybergeddon” project, a groundbreaking motion picture event which will bring to life the growing threat of cybercrime. Written by Miles Chapman (“The Tomb”), “Cybergeddon” executive producers include Anthony E. Zuiker, Matthew Weinberg, President, Dare to Pass and Bill O’Dowd, CEO, Dolphin Digital Studios. True to his storytelling form, Zuiker has engaged Norton by Symantec to leverage its technical credibility and security insights to help inform and guide the narrative. Progressive financier and distribution company Dolphin Digital Media backed the project in a deal brokered and packaged by Creative Artists Agency (CAA). “‘Cybergeddon’ is the evolution of the crime genre,” says creator Anthony E. Zuiker. “Through an invaluable...
- 3/21/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: In his first sale under the 3-year overall deal with ABC Studios he signed in July, CSI creator Anthony Zuiker has set up a drama project at ABC from World Trade Center writer Andrea Berloff. Titled Chameleon, the project centers on a female undercover FBI agent who is a master of disguise. Per the terms of his ABC Studios deal, Zuiker developed the project with studio-based Brillstein Entertainment Partners, which will co-produce it with Zuiker’s Dare to Pass banner and ABC Studios. In addition to writing, Berloff will executive produce Chameleon with Zuiker, Brillstein’s TV president JoAnn Alfano and Zuiker’s manager, Brillstein’s Margaret Riley, while Dare to Pass’ president of production Matthew Weinberg is expected to get some sort of producing credit. Chameleon reunites Berloff, repped by UTA and Management 360, with ABC and ABC Studios, where she developed a Romeo & Juliet reboot last season.
- 9/29/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Anthony Zuicker's Dare To Pass Prods. is having its busiest development season ever with four projects sold to the broadcast networks and several more in final stages of development at CBS TV Studios where the company is based with a first-look deal. Additionally, CSI creator Zuiker has been working full-time on the mothership CSI series this season, taking a break recently to promote Dark Prophecy, the second book from his Level 26 digi-novel series. In the first literary/broadcast crossover, Sqweegel, the super villain from Level 26, did a guest appearance on CSI this fall, driving ratings up for the veteran crime drama, now in its 11th season. The plan is to bring Sqweegel back in the CSI season finale, which would be co-written by Zuiker and the series showrunner Carol Mendelsohn. "I appreciate it more now than the first time," Zuiker said about returning to the show that jump started his career.
- 12/7/2010
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
CBS is developing a modern Western from the creator of "CSI" and a legal drama based on a story by crime novelist Joel Goldman, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Anthony Zuiker will exective produce "Desperado," about a band of lawmen who use cowboy-style tactics to fight crime in San Antonio. "Hitman 2" writer Kyle Ward will write and executive produce and Matthew Weinberg will co-executive produce. The production companies are CBS TV Studios and Dare to Pass. Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly, producers of the FX drama "Justified," will executive produce "Knife...
- 11/24/2010
- The Wrap
"CSI" mastermind Anthony Zuiker will continue to call CBS home with a two-year exclusive first-look deal with CBS TV Studios.
Zuiker will remain as an executive producer of the three "CSI" series, but the focus under the new deal will be on developing new projects -- primarily scripted and reality TV as well as publishing and cross-platform storytelling -- through his production company Dare to Pass.
Zuiker came up with the name for the shingle after ABC famously passed on the Touchstone TV-developed "CSI," which ended up at CBS.
"If you pass on a project it may end up somewhere else," Zuiker said. "I'm daring them to pass."
In ramping up Dare to Pass, Zuiker has tapped Matthew Weinberg as president of production.
Weinberg, most recently a partner at management/production company Guy Walks Into a Bar, was the last person Zuiker interviewed for the job, but the two go back 10 years,...
Zuiker will remain as an executive producer of the three "CSI" series, but the focus under the new deal will be on developing new projects -- primarily scripted and reality TV as well as publishing and cross-platform storytelling -- through his production company Dare to Pass.
Zuiker came up with the name for the shingle after ABC famously passed on the Touchstone TV-developed "CSI," which ended up at CBS.
"If you pass on a project it may end up somewhere else," Zuiker said. "I'm daring them to pass."
In ramping up Dare to Pass, Zuiker has tapped Matthew Weinberg as president of production.
Weinberg, most recently a partner at management/production company Guy Walks Into a Bar, was the last person Zuiker interviewed for the job, but the two go back 10 years,...
- 7/8/2009
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Three pilots have been given network greenlights.
ABC on Friday picked up Jason Winer's single-camera comedy This Might Hurt, while CBS has handed out presentation orders to two dramas: Tower, from Cold Case creator/executive producer Meredith Stiehm, and Harper's Island, to be directed by National Treasure helmer Jon Turteltaub.
Hurt, from 20th Century Fox TV and Guy Walks Into a Bar, originally was set up at Fox, which picked it up to pilot in August but walked out before it went into production. Hurt was shopped to other networks after the WGA strike.
Written and to be directed by Winer, Hurt is set at a private medical practice and revolves around the owner, a fiftysomething pediatrician with a great bedside manner but woefully old-fashioned methods; his brainy internist son, with whom he's in constant conflict; and an OB/GYN who has an inherent distrust of all men.
Casting on the pilot, which is executive produced by Winer, Matthew Weinberg and Todd Komarnicki, is set to begin immediately for a mid-April shooting start.
ABC on Friday picked up Jason Winer's single-camera comedy This Might Hurt, while CBS has handed out presentation orders to two dramas: Tower, from Cold Case creator/executive producer Meredith Stiehm, and Harper's Island, to be directed by National Treasure helmer Jon Turteltaub.
Hurt, from 20th Century Fox TV and Guy Walks Into a Bar, originally was set up at Fox, which picked it up to pilot in August but walked out before it went into production. Hurt was shopped to other networks after the WGA strike.
Written and to be directed by Winer, Hurt is set at a private medical practice and revolves around the owner, a fiftysomething pediatrician with a great bedside manner but woefully old-fashioned methods; his brainy internist son, with whom he's in constant conflict; and an OB/GYN who has an inherent distrust of all men.
Casting on the pilot, which is executive produced by Winer, Matthew Weinberg and Todd Komarnicki, is set to begin immediately for a mid-April shooting start.
Fox Atomic has picked up Don't Lean on Me, a comedy from Ryan Jaffe. John Berg, Todd Komarnicki and Matthew Weinberg of Two Guys Walk Into a Bar are producing.
The story follows an assistant high school gym teacher with no interest in education who is forced into his worst nightmare -- a promotion to high school principal.
Fox Atomic president of production Debbie Liebling will oversee the project with executive Zak Kadison.
Jaffe also is the writer of Fox Atomic's currently shooting comedy The Rocker, which stars Rainn Wilson. Jaffe is repped by Endeavor and Principato/Young.
Two Guys is in production on the Eddie Murphy comedy Starship Dave and were behind the Will Ferrell comedy Elf.
The story follows an assistant high school gym teacher with no interest in education who is forced into his worst nightmare -- a promotion to high school principal.
Fox Atomic president of production Debbie Liebling will oversee the project with executive Zak Kadison.
Jaffe also is the writer of Fox Atomic's currently shooting comedy The Rocker, which stars Rainn Wilson. Jaffe is repped by Endeavor and Principato/Young.
Two Guys is in production on the Eddie Murphy comedy Starship Dave and were behind the Will Ferrell comedy Elf.
- 7/11/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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