Exclusive: In the second 7-figure deal for Paramount Pictures this week, the studio preemptively acquired Yumanzu, a pitch by Free Guy screenwriter Matt Lieberman. He will write the script and producing will be Kenya Barris and his Khalabo Ink Society will produce with Adam Kolbrenner (Free Guy) through his Lit Entertainment Group banner.
Logline for the pitch is being kept under wraps, but Deadline hears this is a high concept family adventure movie that’s somewhere between Close Encounters and Jurassic Park. It was acquired before other studios heard it, with Jon Gonda reeling it in. Lieberman has made a lot of noise with high expectations for Free Guy, the Shawn Levy-directed film that studio will release this year after Covid delays, with Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, Taika Waititi, Lil Rel Howery, and Joe Keery starring.
Lieberman has been en fuego as a writer with seven credits since late 2018: MGM’s Addams Family,...
Logline for the pitch is being kept under wraps, but Deadline hears this is a high concept family adventure movie that’s somewhere between Close Encounters and Jurassic Park. It was acquired before other studios heard it, with Jon Gonda reeling it in. Lieberman has made a lot of noise with high expectations for Free Guy, the Shawn Levy-directed film that studio will release this year after Covid delays, with Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, Taika Waititi, Lil Rel Howery, and Joe Keery starring.
Lieberman has been en fuego as a writer with seven credits since late 2018: MGM’s Addams Family,...
- 2/12/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Paramount Players has picked up One Night in Compton, a pitch package that sees Kenya Barris producing a sci-fi action project.
Rohan Blair-Mangat, who helmed the Quibi series Centerpiece With Maurice Harris, is attached to make his feature directorial debut with Compton, which will be written by Stanley Kalu. The two will share a story by credit.
Logline details are being kept secret.
The project is the first to be set up at Players since former 20th Century Fox exec Jeremy Kramer took over as president of the Paramount movie division in mid-October. The division wants to ramp up quickly as it ...
Rohan Blair-Mangat, who helmed the Quibi series Centerpiece With Maurice Harris, is attached to make his feature directorial debut with Compton, which will be written by Stanley Kalu. The two will share a story by credit.
Logline details are being kept secret.
The project is the first to be set up at Players since former 20th Century Fox exec Jeremy Kramer took over as president of the Paramount movie division in mid-October. The division wants to ramp up quickly as it ...
- 11/19/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Paramount Players has picked up One Night in Compton, a pitch package that sees Kenya Barris producing a sci-fi action project.
Rohan Blair-Mangat, who helmed the Quibi series Centerpiece With Maurice Harris, is attached to make his feature directorial debut with Compton, which will be written by Stanley Kalu. The two will share a story by credit.
Logline details are being kept secret.
The project is the first to be set up at Players since former 20th Century Fox exec Jeremy Kramer took over as president of the Paramount movie division in mid-October. The division wants to ramp up quickly as it ...
Rohan Blair-Mangat, who helmed the Quibi series Centerpiece With Maurice Harris, is attached to make his feature directorial debut with Compton, which will be written by Stanley Kalu. The two will share a story by credit.
Logline details are being kept secret.
The project is the first to be set up at Players since former 20th Century Fox exec Jeremy Kramer took over as president of the Paramount movie division in mid-October. The division wants to ramp up quickly as it ...
- 11/19/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The firm will focus on under-represented creatives.
UK producers Dominic Buchanan, whose credits include The End Of The F***ing World, and Bennett McGhee, who produced Mogul Mowgli, have launched Home Team, a new production company focusing on under-represented creative voices.
The company has recieved backing from the Calculus Creative Content Eis Fund, which was launched in June 2019 in association with the BFI to help generate a new wave of investors in the UK screen industries. Finance specialists Stargrove Pictures acts as adviser to the fund, and sourced the Home Team investment opportunity.
The company will develop and produce feature films and high-end television series,...
UK producers Dominic Buchanan, whose credits include The End Of The F***ing World, and Bennett McGhee, who produced Mogul Mowgli, have launched Home Team, a new production company focusing on under-represented creative voices.
The company has recieved backing from the Calculus Creative Content Eis Fund, which was launched in June 2019 in association with the BFI to help generate a new wave of investors in the UK screen industries. Finance specialists Stargrove Pictures acts as adviser to the fund, and sourced the Home Team investment opportunity.
The company will develop and produce feature films and high-end television series,...
- 9/9/2020
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Two of the U.K.’s top producers, Dominic Buchanan and Bennett McGhee (left), have teamed up to launch a new film and TV production company.
Home Team will focus on high-end, inclusive projects that champion underrepresented creatives and new voices, including filmmakers of color and female filmmakers from all backgrounds.
Buchanan is executive producer on Netflix/Channel 4 drama “The End of the F***ing World,” while McGhee’s recent film “Mogul Mowgli,” starring Riz Ahmed, recently picked up the 2020 Fipresci prize at the Berlin Film Festival, and will soon play the London Film Festival. The film was recently acquired by BFI Distribution.
The company’s development slate includes a collaboration with BBC Films on Shola Amoo’s follow-up to the critically-acclaimed “The Last Tree”; a new BFI-backed film project directed by Destiny Ekaragha (“The End of the F***ing World”) and Danielle Ward (“In the Long Run”); and Nadia Latif...
Home Team will focus on high-end, inclusive projects that champion underrepresented creatives and new voices, including filmmakers of color and female filmmakers from all backgrounds.
Buchanan is executive producer on Netflix/Channel 4 drama “The End of the F***ing World,” while McGhee’s recent film “Mogul Mowgli,” starring Riz Ahmed, recently picked up the 2020 Fipresci prize at the Berlin Film Festival, and will soon play the London Film Festival. The film was recently acquired by BFI Distribution.
The company’s development slate includes a collaboration with BBC Films on Shola Amoo’s follow-up to the critically-acclaimed “The Last Tree”; a new BFI-backed film project directed by Destiny Ekaragha (“The End of the F***ing World”) and Danielle Ward (“In the Long Run”); and Nadia Latif...
- 9/9/2020
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
As the film and TV industry strives to make up for its long history of deficiencies when it comes to diversity and inclusion in front of and behind the camera, over 100 Black creatives and allies in the filmmaking and advertising communities have teamed to create the Black Filmmakers Collective to launch “Change the Lens,” a new pledge to increase the number of Black workers at all levels.
Led by production company Imperial Woodpecker’s Rohan Blair-Mangat, Olympian-turned-filmmaker Savanah Leaf of Park Pictures and producer Alli Maxwell of Florence production company, the industry pledge calls on companies to commit to increasing the diversity of their department heads, crew at all levels and more, to reflect at the 15% Black representation that we see in the United States and London population. The pledge also asks production companies to consult a Head of Diversity & Inclusion, a role that would mediate and oversee implementing the diversity pledge within each company.
Led by production company Imperial Woodpecker’s Rohan Blair-Mangat, Olympian-turned-filmmaker Savanah Leaf of Park Pictures and producer Alli Maxwell of Florence production company, the industry pledge calls on companies to commit to increasing the diversity of their department heads, crew at all levels and more, to reflect at the 15% Black representation that we see in the United States and London population. The pledge also asks production companies to consult a Head of Diversity & Inclusion, a role that would mediate and oversee implementing the diversity pledge within each company.
- 7/9/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Veteran producers Mette-Marie Kongsved and Laura Tunstall are launching Nowhere, a Los Angeles-based production and management company, Variety has learned exclusively, with Michelle Craig as a partner.
“We came together with a shared enthusiasm for discovering and developing new talent and working with bold storytellers,” said Kongsved and Tunstall in a statement released Wednesday.
Kongsved has experience in both film sales and development, having worked for years at Xyz Films, where she produced Macon Blair’s “I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore.” That film won the Grand Jury Prize for the U.S. Dramatic competition in January.
Tunstall is a producer with a background in signing and developing talent for music videos as executive producer at Warp Films and Pulse Films. Credits include Sigur Ros’ “Inni” and Beyonce’s “Lemonade.”
Nowhere’s initial film slate includes projects by Jim Byrkit, Ninian Doff, Gillian Horvat and Rohan Blair-Mangat.
“We came together with a shared enthusiasm for discovering and developing new talent and working with bold storytellers,” said Kongsved and Tunstall in a statement released Wednesday.
Kongsved has experience in both film sales and development, having worked for years at Xyz Films, where she produced Macon Blair’s “I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore.” That film won the Grand Jury Prize for the U.S. Dramatic competition in January.
Tunstall is a producer with a background in signing and developing talent for music videos as executive producer at Warp Films and Pulse Films. Credits include Sigur Ros’ “Inni” and Beyonce’s “Lemonade.”
Nowhere’s initial film slate includes projects by Jim Byrkit, Ninian Doff, Gillian Horvat and Rohan Blair-Mangat.
- 8/8/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
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