Jennifer Berman has left her post as senior vice president of Production at Mandalay Vision and joined Roadside Attractions as senior vice president of Acquisitions, Co-Productions and Development, the studio announced on Thursday. Berman, who began her career at Miramax in 1994 and served as executive producer of the Oscar-winning adaptation of “Chicago,” will “spearhead the acquisition, development and production of feature film projects, both as finished films and at script stage,” the company said. After her stint at Miramax, Berman spent time at Warner Bros.-based De Line Pictures and the Shuman Company. Roadside, now in its 10th year of operation,...
- 4/24/2014
- by Jordan Zakarin
- The Wrap
Jennifer Berman has joined Roadside Attractions as senior vp acquisitions, co-productions and development as the company readies for the upcoming Cannes Film Festival with an eye toward becoming more involved in production. Berman will spearhead the acquisition, development and production of feature film projects, both as finished films and at script stage, the company announced today. Roadside first ventured into production with last year’s All Is Lost, written and directed by J.C. Chandor and starring Robert Redford, which it co-produced with Lionsgate, FilmNation and Universal, with Roadside’s co-presidents Howard Cohen and Eric d’Arbeloff serving as exec producers on
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- 4/24/2014
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Mandalay Vision has acquired screen rights to the John H. Scully novel Preemptive Strike. Mandalay Vision is teaming to produce it with the author’s Della Heights Productions, and they have set Paranoia and Vantage Point scribe Barry L. Levy to adapt. Mandalay Vision’s Matthew Rhodes will produce with Scully. Mandalay Vision’s Jennifer Berman is exec producer along with Mandalay Pictures’ Cathy Schulman. Inspired by true events, the novel is a Cold War action thriller about what could have become one of the most dangerous moments during the back and forth between the U.S. and Soviet Union. At a time when the latter’s nuclear missile program was far ahead of America, a young FBI agent was tasked with hunting down a Soviet double agent to protect a critical piece of technology from falling into Russian hands. It could have tipped the scales disastrously and the...
- 9/27/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Breaking: Filmmaking team Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini have made deals to rewrite and direct My Beautiful Coma, the Chris Downey-scripted drama for Mandalay and Brett Ratner’s Rat Entertainment. Mandalay’s Matthew Rhodes and Cathy Schulman will produce, along with Ratner. Rat Entertainment’s John Cheng will executive produce, as will Bobby Sabelhaus. Mandalay Vision senior veep Jennifer Berman will oversee it and have a producing credit as well. The comedy is about an estranged couple who, after a car accident, find themselves side by side in comatose states. While sleeping, they each escape into their own alternate-reality where they are able to live out their every whim and fantasy, free of the banal details of real life. But when they mysteriously cross over into each other’s coma-worlds, all bets are off. Mandalay Vision president Rhodes said “Shari and Bob’s talents are a perfect fit for...
- 5/1/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Exclusive: Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountain writers Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana have teamed with Super Size Me documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock for a drama series project set up at HBO. The project, described as a big-canvas Texas political drama, is based on an idea by Spurlock, who, along with manager-producer Larry Shuman, approached McMurtry and Ossana. McMurtry and Ossana have written a script for the project, which they are executive producing for Fox TV Studios. Spurlock and Shuman are executive producing through their shingles, Warrior Poets and the Shuman Co., respectively, with McMurtry and Ossana's manager Adam Shulman, Jennifer Berman and Warrior Poets' Jeremy Chilnick also expected to produce. On the feature side, McMurtry and Ossana are writing two major period Westerns for Scott Free, The Color of Lightning for Ridley Scott to direct at 20th Century Fox, and an adaptation of S. C. Gwynne's book Empire of the Summer Moon for Warner Bros.
- 2/12/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Reviewed by Amy R. Handler
(February 2011)
Directed by: Elizabeth Canner
Featuring: Andrilla Chakrabarti, Nan Cochran and John Griesemer
The provocative brainchild of documentary director Elizabeth Canner, “Orgasm Inc.” will leave you wondering what just happened and why it continues. Born as a gently graphic byproduct, “Orgasm Inc.” emerged when Canner was invited by the biopharmaceutical company Vivus Inc. to create erotic videos to be used with its clinical drug trials. The trials in question concerned the development of Alista, a topical gel for the treatment of female sexual dysfunction (Fsd). While making what amounted to pornography for the good of science, Canner discovered that all was not necessarily beneficent at Vivus, and she asked if she could make a documentary of her own. Considering what Canner unearthed, it is a wonder she was allowed to make such a project at Vivus headquarters and live to talk about it.
Strategically disguised as a black comedy,...
(February 2011)
Directed by: Elizabeth Canner
Featuring: Andrilla Chakrabarti, Nan Cochran and John Griesemer
The provocative brainchild of documentary director Elizabeth Canner, “Orgasm Inc.” will leave you wondering what just happened and why it continues. Born as a gently graphic byproduct, “Orgasm Inc.” emerged when Canner was invited by the biopharmaceutical company Vivus Inc. to create erotic videos to be used with its clinical drug trials. The trials in question concerned the development of Alista, a topical gel for the treatment of female sexual dysfunction (Fsd). While making what amounted to pornography for the good of science, Canner discovered that all was not necessarily beneficent at Vivus, and she asked if she could make a documentary of her own. Considering what Canner unearthed, it is a wonder she was allowed to make such a project at Vivus headquarters and live to talk about it.
Strategically disguised as a black comedy,...
- 2/11/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
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