Exclusive: Following a competitive bidding, Linden Productions has acquired the rights to Alice Sadie Celine, the adult debut novel of Nyt-Bestselling author, Sarah Blakley-Cartwright. Jen Silverman will adapt the script with Linden Productions on board to develop and produce the feature film. Blakley-Cartwright will also remain on the project as an Executive Producer.
The story centers on a lauded feminist who becomes entangled with her daughter’s best friend. The novel was selected for the Indie Next List, showcasing the top nominated titles that booksellers nationwide are most excited to share with readers.
The deal was helmed by producer Riva Marker of Linden Entertainment. Marker is a known visionary for bold and provocative storytelling, shown especially in her championing of first-time directors such as Paul Dano’s Wildlife, Susanna Fogel’s Life Partners, Natalie Erika James’ Relic and most recently Tina Satter’s award-winning HBO Films crime-drama Reality starring Sydney Sweeney,...
The story centers on a lauded feminist who becomes entangled with her daughter’s best friend. The novel was selected for the Indie Next List, showcasing the top nominated titles that booksellers nationwide are most excited to share with readers.
The deal was helmed by producer Riva Marker of Linden Entertainment. Marker is a known visionary for bold and provocative storytelling, shown especially in her championing of first-time directors such as Paul Dano’s Wildlife, Susanna Fogel’s Life Partners, Natalie Erika James’ Relic and most recently Tina Satter’s award-winning HBO Films crime-drama Reality starring Sydney Sweeney,...
- 5/8/2024
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The rebirth of the 1999 cult favorite film The Boondock Saints is upon us. Thunder Road, the producer behind the John Wick films, has stepped in and joined rights-holder Dragonfly Films to make what they are calling a universe expansion of the action film franchise about the fraternal twin Irish brothers who raise holy hell to rid their Boston hometown of all criminals.
In the current configuration, Troy Duffy will step aside as director after creating and helming the original and the 2009 sequel The Boondock Saints: All Saints Day. Both films starred The Walking Dead’s Norman Reedus and Sean Patrick Flanery as the MacManus brothers, with Billy Connolly playing their father.
Reedus and Flanery will reprise their roles, and the search is on for a new director. Duffy plans to write a series of books about the Saints, continuing their story that way.
There might be a renaissance going on for these action franchises,...
In the current configuration, Troy Duffy will step aside as director after creating and helming the original and the 2009 sequel The Boondock Saints: All Saints Day. Both films starred The Walking Dead’s Norman Reedus and Sean Patrick Flanery as the MacManus brothers, with Billy Connolly playing their father.
Reedus and Flanery will reprise their roles, and the search is on for a new director. Duffy plans to write a series of books about the Saints, continuing their story that way.
There might be a renaissance going on for these action franchises,...
- 3/21/2024
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: JoAnne Colonna has joined Linden Entertainment as a partner alongside founders Nicole King and Stacy O’Neil. She ends a 20-year run at Brillstein Entertainment Partners, where she was a manager and partner. Colonna will operate between Linden’s LA and NY offices.
“JoAnne is someone we have long admired,” King and O’Neil said “She is very highly respected and valued both by her clients and by people within the industry as a whole. She is passionate about her work and we are thrilled to have her join us. We are excited to have such a strong partner as we look to continue to build to a dynamic future for Linden.”
Said Colonna: “I am excited to partner with Stacy after having worked together for many years. Nicole and Stacy are both incredibly driven and entrepreneurial; they take great care in their work to create unique and exciting opportunities for their clients,...
“JoAnne is someone we have long admired,” King and O’Neil said “She is very highly respected and valued both by her clients and by people within the industry as a whole. She is passionate about her work and we are thrilled to have her join us. We are excited to have such a strong partner as we look to continue to build to a dynamic future for Linden.”
Said Colonna: “I am excited to partner with Stacy after having worked together for many years. Nicole and Stacy are both incredibly driven and entrepreneurial; they take great care in their work to create unique and exciting opportunities for their clients,...
- 8/28/2023
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Image Source: Getty / Patrick T. Fallon
Brendan Fraser is officially an Oscar winner! On March 12, the 54-year-old actor took home the golden statuette for best actor in a leading role for his performance as Charlie in "The Whale." Fraser was up against some stiff competition, beating out Austin Butler ("Elvis"), Colin Farrell ("The Banshees of Inisherin"), Paul Mescal ("Aftersun"), and Bill Nighy ("Living").
During his speech, an emotional Fraser thanked the movie's cast and crew before tearfully launching into a metaphor about his career. He also shouted out his three sons, Griffin, Holden, and Leland, whom he shares with ex-wife Afton Smith, as well as girlfriend Jeanne Moore. Holden, Leland, and Moore were all present at the ceremony for Fraser's big night.
"I started in this business 30 years ago, and things - they didn't come easily to me, but there was a facility that I didn't appreciate at the time until it stopped,...
Brendan Fraser is officially an Oscar winner! On March 12, the 54-year-old actor took home the golden statuette for best actor in a leading role for his performance as Charlie in "The Whale." Fraser was up against some stiff competition, beating out Austin Butler ("Elvis"), Colin Farrell ("The Banshees of Inisherin"), Paul Mescal ("Aftersun"), and Bill Nighy ("Living").
During his speech, an emotional Fraser thanked the movie's cast and crew before tearfully launching into a metaphor about his career. He also shouted out his three sons, Griffin, Holden, and Leland, whom he shares with ex-wife Afton Smith, as well as girlfriend Jeanne Moore. Holden, Leland, and Moore were all present at the ceremony for Fraser's big night.
"I started in this business 30 years ago, and things - they didn't come easily to me, but there was a facility that I didn't appreciate at the time until it stopped,...
- 3/13/2023
- by Monica Sisavat
- Popsugar.com
Image Source: Getty / Kevin Winter
Brendan Fraser couldn't hold back the tears as he accepted the 2023 SAG Award for best leading actor in a film for his role in "The Whale" on Feb. 26.
After Fraser was handed the award, he joked around as he looked at the trophy itself, a statue of an actor. "This is good, a sort of naked man making up his mind to smile or to frown," he joked. "You know, like an actor." "I will treasure this," he continued, pointing to the statue. "But never more than what I treasured that I used to keep in my wallet, which was my SAG card that I earned in 1991. It made me feel like I belonged. We're actors, we all want to feel like we belong to a tribe. And that's where I found that I belonged."
"If you told that guy back then that I'd be standing here right here,...
Brendan Fraser couldn't hold back the tears as he accepted the 2023 SAG Award for best leading actor in a film for his role in "The Whale" on Feb. 26.
After Fraser was handed the award, he joked around as he looked at the trophy itself, a statue of an actor. "This is good, a sort of naked man making up his mind to smile or to frown," he joked. "You know, like an actor." "I will treasure this," he continued, pointing to the statue. "But never more than what I treasured that I used to keep in my wallet, which was my SAG card that I earned in 1991. It made me feel like I belonged. We're actors, we all want to feel like we belong to a tribe. And that's where I found that I belonged."
"If you told that guy back then that I'd be standing here right here,...
- 2/27/2023
- by Victoria Edel
- Popsugar.com
Exclusive: Brendan Fraser (No Sudden Move) has joined the casts of Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon and Max Barbakow’s Brothers.
The former title from Apple TV + and Paramount Pictures is a crime drama, based on the bestselling book of the same name by David Grann. It’s set in 1920s Oklahoma and will examine the serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation—a string of brutal crimes that came to be known as the Reign of Terror.
Fraser will appear in Killers alongside Oscar winners Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, Emmy nominated Jesse Plemons, and more. We hear that he will play lawyer Ws Hamilton.
Eric Roth scripted the film, which Scorsese is also producing for Apple Studios and Imperative Entertainment. Additional producers include Imperative’s Dan Friedkin and Bradley Thomas, and Appian Way Productions.
The latter project adding Fraser to its cast...
The former title from Apple TV + and Paramount Pictures is a crime drama, based on the bestselling book of the same name by David Grann. It’s set in 1920s Oklahoma and will examine the serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation—a string of brutal crimes that came to be known as the Reign of Terror.
Fraser will appear in Killers alongside Oscar winners Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, Emmy nominated Jesse Plemons, and more. We hear that he will play lawyer Ws Hamilton.
Eric Roth scripted the film, which Scorsese is also producing for Apple Studios and Imperative Entertainment. Additional producers include Imperative’s Dan Friedkin and Bradley Thomas, and Appian Way Productions.
The latter project adding Fraser to its cast...
- 8/3/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: “I try to think big!’ says Tura Satana’s Varla in Russ Meyer’s cult classic Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!, and that’s exactly what Norman Reedus and AMC Studios plan to do.
The Walking Dead star’s bigbaldhead production company and AMC Studios are developing a small-screen series version of Meyer’s 1965 flick starring Satana, Lori Williams, Susan Bernard, Paul Trina, Haji and Stuart Lancaster, I have learned. The project has the full backing of the Meyer estate.
Still in the early stages, the project comes under the two-year first-look deal Reedus and his banner inked with the studio in September last year. Utilizing the movie’s tale of a trio of badass go-go dancers on a cash-fueled rampage through the desert, Faster Pussycat the TV show aims to pay homage to the original but also go beyond the fast cars and karate kicks to home in on...
The Walking Dead star’s bigbaldhead production company and AMC Studios are developing a small-screen series version of Meyer’s 1965 flick starring Satana, Lori Williams, Susan Bernard, Paul Trina, Haji and Stuart Lancaster, I have learned. The project has the full backing of the Meyer estate.
Still in the early stages, the project comes under the two-year first-look deal Reedus and his banner inked with the studio in September last year. Utilizing the movie’s tale of a trio of badass go-go dancers on a cash-fueled rampage through the desert, Faster Pussycat the TV show aims to pay homage to the original but also go beyond the fast cars and karate kicks to home in on...
- 5/24/2021
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: ICM Partners has signed Elijah Wood for representation.
Wood was most recently seen starring in comedy-horror film Come To Daddy, which debuted at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. He previously starred in Macon Blair’s I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore for Netflix opposite Melanie Lynskey, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.
Wood is known for his role as Frodo Baggins in the critically acclaimed trilogy of films based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Directed by Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and Return of the King broke box office records with Return of the King winning the Academy Award for Best Picture as well as 11 additional Academy Awards.
In 2010, Wood, founded his production company SpectreVision, and together with partners Daniel Noah and Lisa Whalen they have carved...
Wood was most recently seen starring in comedy-horror film Come To Daddy, which debuted at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. He previously starred in Macon Blair’s I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore for Netflix opposite Melanie Lynskey, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.
Wood is known for his role as Frodo Baggins in the critically acclaimed trilogy of films based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Directed by Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and Return of the King broke box office records with Return of the King winning the Academy Award for Best Picture as well as 11 additional Academy Awards.
In 2010, Wood, founded his production company SpectreVision, and together with partners Daniel Noah and Lisa Whalen they have carved...
- 2/16/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Robert Schwartzman’s filmmaker-centric distribution company Utopia has launched Utopia Originals which will focus on the development, packaging, and sale of original narrative and documentary feature film as well as television content. For its first project, Utopia Originals has teamed with Norman Reedus’ production banner bigbaldhead and Shout! Studios for a TV adaptation of the cult horror classic Sorority House Massacre which was executive produced by indie trailblazer Roger Corman and directed by Carol Frank.
The inaugural project will be developed in partnership with Stephen Trask, creator of the Tony-Award winning Broadway musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch. The 1986 movie is exactly what it suggests: a story about sorority sisters who are stalked by a psychopathic killer who shares a telepathic link with one of the girls. The horror spawned two sequels that included Sorority House Massacre II and Sorority House Massacre III: Hard to Die. Schwartzman and Reedus...
The inaugural project will be developed in partnership with Stephen Trask, creator of the Tony-Award winning Broadway musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch. The 1986 movie is exactly what it suggests: a story about sorority sisters who are stalked by a psychopathic killer who shares a telepathic link with one of the girls. The horror spawned two sequels that included Sorority House Massacre II and Sorority House Massacre III: Hard to Die. Schwartzman and Reedus...
- 11/11/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: George Freeman, who saw a 20-year run at WME end in June and continued to represent most of his clients independently as manager, has landed at Brillstein Entertainment Partners. He has brought a lengthy list of clients with him.
Freeman’s list includes Russell Crowe; Dennis Quaid; director Ramin Bahrani; Adarsh Gourav, director and star of the upcoming Netflix film The White Tiger; American Gods, Hannibal & Pushing Daisies writer/EP Bryan Fuller; Florence Pugh, Oscar-nominated Little Women star who next co-stars in Black Widow); actor Arinze Kene (stars with Rachel Brosnahan in Amazon’s I Am Your Woman); actor Russell Tovey (Looking and Years and Years); and director Josie Rourke (Mary Queen of Scots).
A publicist before becoming an agent, Freeman said he chose Brillstein because he had such lasting relationships with its partners along his career track. None longer than CEO Jon Liebman. That relationship goes all the way back to kindergarten.
Freeman’s list includes Russell Crowe; Dennis Quaid; director Ramin Bahrani; Adarsh Gourav, director and star of the upcoming Netflix film The White Tiger; American Gods, Hannibal & Pushing Daisies writer/EP Bryan Fuller; Florence Pugh, Oscar-nominated Little Women star who next co-stars in Black Widow); actor Arinze Kene (stars with Rachel Brosnahan in Amazon’s I Am Your Woman); actor Russell Tovey (Looking and Years and Years); and director Josie Rourke (Mary Queen of Scots).
A publicist before becoming an agent, Freeman said he chose Brillstein because he had such lasting relationships with its partners along his career track. None longer than CEO Jon Liebman. That relationship goes all the way back to kindergarten.
- 10/1/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s TV news roundup, Netflix has announced the premiere date for “Social Distance,” and Showtime has revealed the premiere date for “Moonbase 8.”
Renewals
Shaftesbury announced “Departure” has been renewed for a second season and started production in Toronto, ahead of the first season launching on Peacock in the U.S. Archie Panjabi and Christopher Plummer will return to lead the show, joined by Kris Holden-Ried, Mark Rendall, Jason O’Mara, Karen Leblanc, Kelly McCormack, Wendy Crewson, Dion Johnstone and Donal Logue. The show is co-produced by Shaftesbury and Deadpan Pictures in association with Corus Entertainment, Starlings Television and Red Arrow Studios International.
Dates
Showtime announced “Moonbase 8,” starring Tim Heidecker and John C. Reilly, will premiere Nov. 8 at 11 p.m. The sci-fi comedy follows astronauts who train to qualify for their first lunar mission. But their plans change when a series of events forces the astronauts to question their mental sanity.
Renewals
Shaftesbury announced “Departure” has been renewed for a second season and started production in Toronto, ahead of the first season launching on Peacock in the U.S. Archie Panjabi and Christopher Plummer will return to lead the show, joined by Kris Holden-Ried, Mark Rendall, Jason O’Mara, Karen Leblanc, Kelly McCormack, Wendy Crewson, Dion Johnstone and Donal Logue. The show is co-produced by Shaftesbury and Deadpan Pictures in association with Corus Entertainment, Starlings Television and Red Arrow Studios International.
Dates
Showtime announced “Moonbase 8,” starring Tim Heidecker and John C. Reilly, will premiere Nov. 8 at 11 p.m. The sci-fi comedy follows astronauts who train to qualify for their first lunar mission. But their plans change when a series of events forces the astronauts to question their mental sanity.
- 9/15/2020
- by Janet W. Lee
- Variety Film + TV
“Walking Dead” star Norman Reedus has signed a first-look development deal with AMC Studios under his newly-launched production company, bigbaldhead.
Reedus is launching bigbaldhead alongside Brillstein Entertainment partner JoAnne Colonna and it will be led by former AMC executive Amanda Verdon.
With several projects in development, bigbaldhead has recently closed a deal to adapt “Undone by Blood,” an AfterShock Comics publication from writers Zac Thompson and Lonnie Nadler, who are also on board as co-executive producers. Aftershock Comics’ Jon and Lee Kramer will serve as executive producers. The series follows the story of Ethel Grady Lane who, in the early 1970s, returns to her hometown of Sweetheart, Arizona to find and kill the man who murdered her family. Reedus is eyed to star in the series.
“Norman has been an indelible part of the AMC family for more than a decade, across both scripted and unscripted series, on foot and on wheels,...
Reedus is launching bigbaldhead alongside Brillstein Entertainment partner JoAnne Colonna and it will be led by former AMC executive Amanda Verdon.
With several projects in development, bigbaldhead has recently closed a deal to adapt “Undone by Blood,” an AfterShock Comics publication from writers Zac Thompson and Lonnie Nadler, who are also on board as co-executive producers. Aftershock Comics’ Jon and Lee Kramer will serve as executive producers. The series follows the story of Ethel Grady Lane who, in the early 1970s, returns to her hometown of Sweetheart, Arizona to find and kill the man who murdered her family. Reedus is eyed to star in the series.
“Norman has been an indelible part of the AMC family for more than a decade, across both scripted and unscripted series, on foot and on wheels,...
- 9/15/2020
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Norman Reedus is doubling down at AMC.
Less than a week after it was announced that The Walking Dead star would be fronting his own spinoff of the cabler’s zombie apocalypse series with Melissa McBride, Reedus has now signed a first look development deal with AMC Studios.
Set to run for two years, the agreement with the AMC Network’s unit comes as Reedus has formed his own bigbaldhead production shingle.
Partnering with Brillstein Entertainment’s JoAnne Colonna and former AMC Scripted Programming VP Amanda Verdon to run bigbaldhead, Reedus has already lined up an adaptation of Aftershock Comics’ Undone By Blood, in which he will likely star, as well as EP.. Taking a new spin on the Western genre, the Undone By Blood TV series will have writers Zac Thompson and Lonnie Nadler as Co-EPs and Aftershock’s Jon and Lee Kramer as EPs, along with Verdon and Colonna.
Less than a week after it was announced that The Walking Dead star would be fronting his own spinoff of the cabler’s zombie apocalypse series with Melissa McBride, Reedus has now signed a first look development deal with AMC Studios.
Set to run for two years, the agreement with the AMC Network’s unit comes as Reedus has formed his own bigbaldhead production shingle.
Partnering with Brillstein Entertainment’s JoAnne Colonna and former AMC Scripted Programming VP Amanda Verdon to run bigbaldhead, Reedus has already lined up an adaptation of Aftershock Comics’ Undone By Blood, in which he will likely star, as well as EP.. Taking a new spin on the Western genre, the Undone By Blood TV series will have writers Zac Thompson and Lonnie Nadler as Co-EPs and Aftershock’s Jon and Lee Kramer as EPs, along with Verdon and Colonna.
- 9/15/2020
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: JoAnne Colonna has been elevated to Partner at Brillstein Entertainment. In addition to managing and branding her high profile clientele, she will take on a larger leadership role at the company.
Colonna’s longtime clients include Forest Whitaker, Eva Longoria, Chante Adams, Alden Ehrenreich, Daniel Dae Kim, Andy Garcia, Norman Reedus, Anna Paquin, Kat Graham, Bresha Webb, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Asher Angel, Quincy Brown, Elijah Wood , James Purefoy, Brendan Fraser, Chad Michael Murray, Amandla Jahava, Ajiona Alexus, Lily Donoghue, and Amaury Nolasco.
“JoAnne distinguishes herself every day through the artists she passionately champions, the reputation she has earned, and her leadership in our industry,” said the partners. “Her relationships, mentorship, and insights have helped shape Brillstein’s forward trajectory and we are fortunate to be surrounded by her warmth and integrity “
Said Colonna: “Brillstein has been my professional family for over a decade. I’m thrilled to be in...
Colonna’s longtime clients include Forest Whitaker, Eva Longoria, Chante Adams, Alden Ehrenreich, Daniel Dae Kim, Andy Garcia, Norman Reedus, Anna Paquin, Kat Graham, Bresha Webb, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Asher Angel, Quincy Brown, Elijah Wood , James Purefoy, Brendan Fraser, Chad Michael Murray, Amandla Jahava, Ajiona Alexus, Lily Donoghue, and Amaury Nolasco.
“JoAnne distinguishes herself every day through the artists she passionately champions, the reputation she has earned, and her leadership in our industry,” said the partners. “Her relationships, mentorship, and insights have helped shape Brillstein’s forward trajectory and we are fortunate to be surrounded by her warmth and integrity “
Said Colonna: “Brillstein has been my professional family for over a decade. I’m thrilled to be in...
- 7/1/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Brendan Fraser is to star in The Professionals, a loose remake of the Christian Slater-fronted action movie Soldiers of Fortune for Scandinavian Svod service Viaplay.
The Mummy and Trust star is to front The Professionals, based on the Jeff Most-produced film, alongside Smallville’s Tom Welling, Wonder Woman’s Elena Anaya, John Wick 3’s Saïd Taghmaoui, Inglourious Basterds’ Ken Duken, Force Majeure’s Lisa Loven Kongsli and Das Boot’s August Wittgenstein.
The ten-part English-language series, which has just begun filming in South Africa and Ireland, was commissioned by Viaplay with German broadcaster Rtl II pre-buying the free-tv rights.
The Professionals is set against a backdrop of international espionage and corporate sabotage in the 21st century’s privately-funded space race and follow Welling as a hardened former counterintelligence officer Captain Vincent Corbo. After their advanced medical satellite explodes on deployment, billionaire futurist Peter Swann, played by Fraser,...
The Mummy and Trust star is to front The Professionals, based on the Jeff Most-produced film, alongside Smallville’s Tom Welling, Wonder Woman’s Elena Anaya, John Wick 3’s Saïd Taghmaoui, Inglourious Basterds’ Ken Duken, Force Majeure’s Lisa Loven Kongsli and Das Boot’s August Wittgenstein.
The ten-part English-language series, which has just begun filming in South Africa and Ireland, was commissioned by Viaplay with German broadcaster Rtl II pre-buying the free-tv rights.
The Professionals is set against a backdrop of international espionage and corporate sabotage in the 21st century’s privately-funded space race and follow Welling as a hardened former counterintelligence officer Captain Vincent Corbo. After their advanced medical satellite explodes on deployment, billionaire futurist Peter Swann, played by Fraser,...
- 5/31/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Brillstein Entertainment Partners has hired two new managers, Andy Farag and Isabel Frost, and promoted Natalie Covault and Jackie Gardner to Manager in the ongoing expansion of the company’s comedy, talent and literary representation business.
Farag joins Brillstein from CAA, where he started as an assistant and quickly climbed the ranks to Comedy Touring Agent. While at CAA, Andy identified and cultivated comedic talent and grew his client list quickly due to his extensive presence in comedy clubs and festivals all over the country.
Frost joins Brillstein from Primary Wave Entertainment, where she was a manager specializing in comedy. Prior to that, Isabel was an assistant at 3 Arts Entertainment and previously ran the theatrical department for Reign Agency.
“Isabel’s impeccable taste and Andy’s commitment to live comedy make them great additions to our Comedy Team.” said Tim Sarkes and Alex Murray, Co-Heads of Brillstein Entertainment Partners’ Comedy department.
Farag joins Brillstein from CAA, where he started as an assistant and quickly climbed the ranks to Comedy Touring Agent. While at CAA, Andy identified and cultivated comedic talent and grew his client list quickly due to his extensive presence in comedy clubs and festivals all over the country.
Frost joins Brillstein from Primary Wave Entertainment, where she was a manager specializing in comedy. Prior to that, Isabel was an assistant at 3 Arts Entertainment and previously ran the theatrical department for Reign Agency.
“Isabel’s impeccable taste and Andy’s commitment to live comedy make them great additions to our Comedy Team.” said Tim Sarkes and Alex Murray, Co-Heads of Brillstein Entertainment Partners’ Comedy department.
- 10/24/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Updated with Rae Sanchini’s statement: Two more people close to Eliza Dushku, her agent at the time JoAnne Colonna and longtime friend Peter Conti, have come forward to support the actress’ account of sexual assault at the hands of top stunt coordinator Joel Kramer during the filming of the 1994 hit True Lies when she was 12. Kramer, who was 36 at the time, has denied the allegations. Colonna, now a manager, had represented Dushku for three years at the time the young…...
- 1/14/2018
- Deadline TV
The CW brass were hoping to keep Sarah Michelle Gellar into the fold after the cancellation of her drama series Ringer. But seems like the Buffy The Vampire Slayer alumna will be headed elsewhere. Gellar is attached to a comedy script set up at 20th Century Fox TV, as first reported by TVLine. I hear the untitled project, from up-and-coming writer Shepard Boucher (Men At Work), chronicles the hijinks of two moms, one played by Gellar, while their kids are at school. ICM Partners-repped Boucher wrote the project on spec. The agency, which also reps Gellar, showed it to the actress who liked it and came on board. In part because of Gellar’s relationship with 20th TV chairman Dana Walden going back to Gellar’s says on the studio’s drama Buffy The Vampire Slayer, the project was set up at 20th TV, which put in development. Studio-based...
- 1/6/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Synchronicity Entertainment is announcing its arrival in genre films with three horror films with impressive pedigree in Cooties, Due Process and Smiley on its debut slate. Cooties is to star Elijah Wood, Due Process will star John Cusack, and Smiley is already completed and on demand, and was reviewed here. Peruse the press release below!
Los Angeles, California (October 30, 2012) – Synchronicity Entertainment, the new genre film production and international sales label launched by Lisa Wilson and Myles Nestel’s The Solution Entertainment Group has unveiled its debut slate of three new feature films including: the horror film Cooties from the co-creator of the Saw franchise and Insidious writer Leigh Whannell and Paranormal Activity 1 – 4 producer Steven Schneider; the thriller Due Process starring Golden Globe nominee John Cusack (High Fidelity); and the completed psychological thriller Smiley, it was announced today by Ruzanna Kegeyan, Synchronicity’s President of International Distribution.
Executive produced by...
Los Angeles, California (October 30, 2012) – Synchronicity Entertainment, the new genre film production and international sales label launched by Lisa Wilson and Myles Nestel’s The Solution Entertainment Group has unveiled its debut slate of three new feature films including: the horror film Cooties from the co-creator of the Saw franchise and Insidious writer Leigh Whannell and Paranormal Activity 1 – 4 producer Steven Schneider; the thriller Due Process starring Golden Globe nominee John Cusack (High Fidelity); and the completed psychological thriller Smiley, it was announced today by Ruzanna Kegeyan, Synchronicity’s President of International Distribution.
Executive produced by...
- 11/6/2012
- by Andy Greene
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
Synchronicity Entertainment, the new genre film production and international sales label launched by Lisa Wilson and Myles Nestel.s The Solution Entertainment Group has unveiled its debut slate of three new feature films including: the horror film Cooties from the co-creator of the Saw franchise and Insidious writer Leigh Whannell and Paranormal Activity 1 . 4 producer Steven Schneider; the thriller Due Process starring Golden Globe nominee John Cusack (High Fidelity); and the completed psychological thriller Smiley, it was announced today by Ruzanna Kegeyan, Synchronicity.s President of International Distribution.
Executive produced by The Solution who is arranging the financing for two of the new films, Synchronicity is handling the international distribution rights for the slate and will introduce the films to buyers at the upcoming American Film Market.
Starring Elijah Wood, Cooties is produced by top horror film producer Steven Schneider, who is behind the hugely successful Paranormal Activity franchise including the latest installment,...
Executive produced by The Solution who is arranging the financing for two of the new films, Synchronicity is handling the international distribution rights for the slate and will introduce the films to buyers at the upcoming American Film Market.
Starring Elijah Wood, Cooties is produced by top horror film producer Steven Schneider, who is behind the hugely successful Paranormal Activity franchise including the latest installment,...
- 10/31/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Sarah Michelle Gellar is returning to broadcast series TV with a pilot at CBS. In its first drama pilot pickup this season, CBS has greenlighted Ringer, which is toplined by the former Buffy the Vampire Slayer star. The project hails from ABC Studios, CBS TV Studios and Brillstein Entertainment Partners. Update: The pickup of Ringer was followed by another drama pilot order by CBS to an untitled supernatural medical drama from writer Susannah Grant. Ringer, written on spec by Supernatural writer-producers Eric Charmelo & Nicole Snyder, centers on a troubled young woman (Gellar) who, while on the run from the mob, hides out by inhabiting the life of her wealthy twin sister, until she learns that her twin’s life has a bounty on it as well. Brillstein's Peter Traugott is executive producing, with Gellar, Charmelo and Snyder co-executive producing. Geller, repped by Icm and Brillstein's Joanne Colonna, has been heavily...
- 1/15/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
TheOneRing.net is reporting that Elijah Wood is coming back to the Shire and reprising the role of Frodo Baggins in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit. Not a moment too soon either – filming is scheduled to begin in February. Just this week it was announced that MGM and Warner Bros had come to a deal where Warner Bros will have worldwide theatrical distribution on Jackson’s film and MGM will retain international television rights. Warner Bros Pictures will pay the entire $500 million+ cost of the two installments of The Hobbit.
Here’s the official announcement from Wood’s rep. on Deadline.com.
Wood is confirmed to star in Peter Jackson.s The Hobbit to be shot in New Zealand. In addition, he has signed on to play .Ben Gunn. in Stewart Harcourt.s adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson.s Treasure Island along side Eddie Izzard. The 2 part/ 4 hour miniseries will...
Here’s the official announcement from Wood’s rep. on Deadline.com.
Wood is confirmed to star in Peter Jackson.s The Hobbit to be shot in New Zealand. In addition, he has signed on to play .Ben Gunn. in Stewart Harcourt.s adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson.s Treasure Island along side Eddie Izzard. The 2 part/ 4 hour miniseries will...
- 1/8/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
In Thursday's story about Warner Bros fully financing and distributing The Hobbit worldwide, Deadline revealed that Elijah Wood was in talks to bring his Frodo character back to Middle Earth. His reps announced it tonight. Here's the official word: Wood is confirmed to star in Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit” to be shot in New Zealand. In addition, he has signed on to play “Ben Gunn” in Stewart Harcourt’s adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island along side Eddie Izzard. The 2 part/ 4 hour miniseries will be airing on Sky TV in the UK. Alan Moloney is producing with Steve Barron directing. Wood will next be seen this summer in FX’s new series “Wilfred”, as well as lending his voice to Warner Bros. “Happy Feet 2” set for release November 18th as well as Disney Xd’s “Tron: Uprising” (2012), In addition, he is starring in the Sundance short “Fight...
- 1/8/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
The more things change in Hollywood, the more they stay the same. So Sarah Michelle Gellar has left CAA and returned to ICM and Eddy Yablans. When ICM last repped her, she starred in the iconic Buffy The Vampire Slayer TV series, and feature films including Cruel Intentions and The Grudge. She's still managed by Joanne Colonna at Brillstein Entertainment Partners. Leaving CAA to go back to ICM agent Brian Bunnin is Kevin Zegers, who had a breakout performance in Transamerica and whose other credits include 50 Dead Men Walking, The Perfect Age Of Rock 'N Roll, The Jane Austen Book Club, Normal, and The Narrows. He's still managed by Jason Weinberg and Justin Grey Stone at Untitled.
- 9/14/2010
- by Nikki Finke
- Deadline Hollywood
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