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Jesse Collins Entertainment President Dionne Harmon announced today that John Wehage has joined the company as Executive Vice President, Head of Production of the full-service Emmy-winning production company. Karen Grant-Selma will lead the company’s in-house legal team as Executive Vice President, Head of Business & Legal Affairs. Both will report to Harmon.
Wehage will oversee the physical production of all of the company’s specials, scripted and unscripted television content. With a career spanning over two decades, he has had various leadership positions across a variety of formats spanning hundreds of hours of programming including stage, live, competition, docu-follow, gameshow, digital, documentary and adventure programming. Most recently with Scout Productions, he contributed to the success of acclaimed shows such as Legendary (HBO Max), The Hype (HBO Max), Merpeople (Netflix), The Secrets of Hillsong (FX), The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning (Peacock) and the Emmy Award winning Queer Eye (Netflix).
Prior to Scout,...
Wehage will oversee the physical production of all of the company’s specials, scripted and unscripted television content. With a career spanning over two decades, he has had various leadership positions across a variety of formats spanning hundreds of hours of programming including stage, live, competition, docu-follow, gameshow, digital, documentary and adventure programming. Most recently with Scout Productions, he contributed to the success of acclaimed shows such as Legendary (HBO Max), The Hype (HBO Max), Merpeople (Netflix), The Secrets of Hillsong (FX), The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning (Peacock) and the Emmy Award winning Queer Eye (Netflix).
Prior to Scout,...
- 5/30/2023
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
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Exclusive: Jesse Collins has brought in Royal Ties Productions’ Tracey Kemble as EVP, Scripted Content at his Jesse Collins Entertainment. In the newly created role, Kemble will oversee development and production for all scripted content at the television and film production company based at Burbank, CA.
Jce has a multi-year overall agreement with ViacomCBS Cable Networks. On the theatrical side, ViacomCBS’ film entities. such as Paramount Players, have a first-look on Jce’s film development projects.
Kemble comes to Jce from the Reina and Regina King-led Royal Ties Productions where she was SVP of Development & Production, overseeing the company’s first-look deal with Netflix for episodic television and film and collaborating with production companies including Legendary Entertainment, Proximity Media, Calamity Jane and Alfresco Pictures, to name a few.
She produced the documentary Through The Fire: The Legacy of Barack Obama, was executive producer of the GLAAD Media Award-nominated series...
Jce has a multi-year overall agreement with ViacomCBS Cable Networks. On the theatrical side, ViacomCBS’ film entities. such as Paramount Players, have a first-look on Jce’s film development projects.
Kemble comes to Jce from the Reina and Regina King-led Royal Ties Productions where she was SVP of Development & Production, overseeing the company’s first-look deal with Netflix for episodic television and film and collaborating with production companies including Legendary Entertainment, Proximity Media, Calamity Jane and Alfresco Pictures, to name a few.
She produced the documentary Through The Fire: The Legacy of Barack Obama, was executive producer of the GLAAD Media Award-nominated series...
- 12/2/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Company launched North American sales in Tiff on South African Oscar submission Knuckle City.
Morris Ruskin and Jordan Walker-Pearlman’s new Los Angeles-based production and management company MoJo Global Arts has unveiled a slate of three projects featuring a Latinx comedy, a Jazz documentary, and an epic TV project about Harlem.
MoJo has come on board as producer’s rep on acquisition title Chateau Vato, a completed Latinx comedy starring Paul Rodriguez. Tom Musca, whose screenplay credits include Stand And Deliver and Tortilla Soup, wrote, directed and produced the film about a gardener who moves into an abandoned mansion with...
Morris Ruskin and Jordan Walker-Pearlman’s new Los Angeles-based production and management company MoJo Global Arts has unveiled a slate of three projects featuring a Latinx comedy, a Jazz documentary, and an epic TV project about Harlem.
MoJo has come on board as producer’s rep on acquisition title Chateau Vato, a completed Latinx comedy starring Paul Rodriguez. Tom Musca, whose screenplay credits include Stand And Deliver and Tortilla Soup, wrote, directed and produced the film about a gardener who moves into an abandoned mansion with...
- 9/16/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
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In today’s film news roundup, Shania Twain has a new role, the Russo Brothers board an action comedy, MoJo launches, the Academy names three new governors and a Canadian film fund is unveiled.
Castings
Shania Twain, Britt Robertson, Melissa Roxburgh, and Nathan Dean Parsons will star opposite Kj Apa in “I Still Believe,” Lionsgate’s faith-based biopic about Christian music star Jeremy Camp.
Twain will play Jeremy Camp’s mother Terry Camp. Robertson will play Melissa Henning, who married Jeremy Camp in 2000, while Roxburgh will play Melissa Hennning’s older sister and Parsons will play a rock star friend who mentors Jeremy Camp.
Brothers Jon and Andrew Erwin, and producing partner Kevin Downes are reteaming with the studio following the success of their 2018 faith-based film “I Can Only Imagine,” which grossed $85 million worldwide. It’s the first project coming out of their film and TV first-look deal with Lionsgate,...
Castings
Shania Twain, Britt Robertson, Melissa Roxburgh, and Nathan Dean Parsons will star opposite Kj Apa in “I Still Believe,” Lionsgate’s faith-based biopic about Christian music star Jeremy Camp.
Twain will play Jeremy Camp’s mother Terry Camp. Robertson will play Melissa Henning, who married Jeremy Camp in 2000, while Roxburgh will play Melissa Hennning’s older sister and Parsons will play a rock star friend who mentors Jeremy Camp.
Brothers Jon and Andrew Erwin, and producing partner Kevin Downes are reteaming with the studio following the success of their 2018 faith-based film “I Can Only Imagine,” which grossed $85 million worldwide. It’s the first project coming out of their film and TV first-look deal with Lionsgate,...
- 5/14/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
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