Exclusive: Wind River alum Gil Birmingham has closed a deal to return for Castle Rock Entertainment’s sequel Wind River: The Next Chapter, with Alan Ruck (Succession), Kali Reis (Catch the Fair One) and Tatanka Means (Killers of the Flower Moon) also joining the cast.
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The film, which is in production in Calgary with Kari Skogland (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) at the helm, also will see the return of Wind River original Martin Sensmeier, with Jason Clarke, Scott Eastwood and Chaske Spencer rounding out the ensemble.
Written and directed by Oscar-nominated Yellowstone Universe architect Taylor Sheridan,...
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The film, which is in production in Calgary with Kari Skogland (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) at the helm, also will see the return of Wind River original Martin Sensmeier, with Jason Clarke, Scott Eastwood and Chaske Spencer rounding out the ensemble.
Written and directed by Oscar-nominated Yellowstone Universe architect Taylor Sheridan,...
- 3/22/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Searching for Sugar Man producer Passion Pictures has broadened its partnership with Paris animation outfit Circus Studios and the pair have been revealed as the producers behind Interplay Entertainment’s Earthworm Jim animated TV series based on the iconic 90’s computer classic.
Circus has been working for a number of years with the Marc Bodin-Joyeux-run Passion Paris hub including on three seasons and more than 650 hours of Nickelodeon’s Lego City Adventures but the deal will see the company work with the wider Passion Pictures outfit and its animation unit, which has been expanding most recently with the signing of two former Pixar execs.
The studios are in development on TV series Earthworm Jim Beyond The Groovy based on the cult, iconic 90’s computer game for Interplay Entertainment. The series of platform games that were first released in 1994 followed the eponymous character, who wears a robotic...
Circus has been working for a number of years with the Marc Bodin-Joyeux-run Passion Paris hub including on three seasons and more than 650 hours of Nickelodeon’s Lego City Adventures but the deal will see the company work with the wider Passion Pictures outfit and its animation unit, which has been expanding most recently with the signing of two former Pixar execs.
The studios are in development on TV series Earthworm Jim Beyond The Groovy based on the cult, iconic 90’s computer game for Interplay Entertainment. The series of platform games that were first released in 1994 followed the eponymous character, who wears a robotic...
- 11/23/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Part of what it describes as a bold and rapid expansion of its long-form animation department, London-based Oscar winning Passion Pictures has appointed Nicki Cortese as head of development for animated features and series.
Cortese joins Pixar veteran David Park, a production manager on “Coco” and animation department manager on “Toy Story 3,” who was himself hired as Passion head of production for long-form animation in 2021, as well as executive producer Debbie Crosscup.
Joining Passion ahead of Annecy, Cortese served as head of development for Elisabeth Murdoch’s Locksmith Animation, where she worked on Disney’s “Ron’s Gone Wrong” as well as the just-announced Netflix feature “That Christmas,” based on children’s books by “Four Weddings and a Funeral’s ”Richard Curtis. Cortese had a first-look deal with Brian Robbins’ studio, Awesomeness Films, and, prior to that, oversaw the “Divergent” franchise at Red Wagon.
Cortese comes to Passion after it...
Cortese joins Pixar veteran David Park, a production manager on “Coco” and animation department manager on “Toy Story 3,” who was himself hired as Passion head of production for long-form animation in 2021, as well as executive producer Debbie Crosscup.
Joining Passion ahead of Annecy, Cortese served as head of development for Elisabeth Murdoch’s Locksmith Animation, where she worked on Disney’s “Ron’s Gone Wrong” as well as the just-announced Netflix feature “That Christmas,” based on children’s books by “Four Weddings and a Funeral’s ”Richard Curtis. Cortese had a first-look deal with Brian Robbins’ studio, Awesomeness Films, and, prior to that, oversaw the “Divergent” franchise at Red Wagon.
Cortese comes to Passion after it...
- 6/13/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Since her breakout role in J.J. Abrams sci-fi Super 8, Elle Fanning’s stock has only continued to climb. Earlier this year, she effectively wowed audiences with an intense and at times stomach-churning role in The Neon Demon, and it appears Fanning has developed a taste for dark, psychological thrillers.
That’s because, according to Deadline, Elle Fanning is now in contention for the lead role in Beware That Girl, an adaptation of Teresa Toten’s acclaimed page-turner. With echoes of Gone Girl and even The Girl on the Train – make no mistake, edge-of-your-seat thrillers are very much in vogue – Deadline cautions that those negotiations are in the very early stages and while the outlet stops short of mentioning the role Fanning is circling, we assume it’s a starring one.
For those unfamiliar with Toten’s novel, Beware That Girl follows Kate, a young scholarship student raised on a...
That’s because, according to Deadline, Elle Fanning is now in contention for the lead role in Beware That Girl, an adaptation of Teresa Toten’s acclaimed page-turner. With echoes of Gone Girl and even The Girl on the Train – make no mistake, edge-of-your-seat thrillers are very much in vogue – Deadline cautions that those negotiations are in the very early stages and while the outlet stops short of mentioning the role Fanning is circling, we assume it’s a starring one.
For those unfamiliar with Toten’s novel, Beware That Girl follows Kate, a young scholarship student raised on a...
- 11/21/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Exclusive: Elle Fanning is in talks to take the lead role in Awesomeness Films’ adaptation of Beware That Girl, a film based on the Ya book by Teresa Toten. Brian Robbins, Matt Kaplan, Brian Duffield and Nicki Cortese are producing. Said to be in the vein of Gone Girl and The Girl On The Train, the psychological thriller is set against the backdrop of an elite Manhattan private school where two girls befriend, use, and manipulate each other in a game of cat and…...
- 11/19/2016
- Deadline
Awesomeness Films has acquired the film rights to "Riverman" trilogy author Aaron Starmer's young adult fantasy novel "Spontaneous".
Set against the backdrop of a suburban New Jersey high school, a normal day goes pear-shaped when students begin spontaneously bursting into flames. The remaining kids must come together to figure out a way to survive.
Brian Duffield and Nicki Cortese will produce with the former set to pen the script. Brian Robbins and Matt Kaplan will also produce. "Spontaneous" was named a Book Expo America 2016 Young Adult Buzz Book.
Source: Variety...
Set against the backdrop of a suburban New Jersey high school, a normal day goes pear-shaped when students begin spontaneously bursting into flames. The remaining kids must come together to figure out a way to survive.
Brian Duffield and Nicki Cortese will produce with the former set to pen the script. Brian Robbins and Matt Kaplan will also produce. "Spontaneous" was named a Book Expo America 2016 Young Adult Buzz Book.
Source: Variety...
- 6/2/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Plus: Awesomeness Films acquires Spontaneous; and more…
Bleecker Street has set a September 30 awards season release date for Denial, the Rachel Weisz starrer based on Deborah E. Lipstadt’s book History On Trial: My Day In Court With A Holocaust Denier.
The story of Lipstadt’s legal battle with Holocaust denier David Irving stars Timothy Spall as the latter, as well as Tom Wilkinson and Andrew Scott.
Mick Jackson directs from David Hare’s adapted screenplay. Producing Denial are Gary Foster and Russ Krasnoff, while Participant Media’s Jeff Skoll and Jonathan King, BBC Films’ Christine Langan and Joe Oppenheimer, Bleecker Street’s Andrew Karpen, and Shoebox Films Guy Heeley serve as executive producers.
Awesomeness Films has acquired rights to Ya novel Spontaneous and set Brian Duffield to adapt. Duffield and Nicki Cortese will produce under their Jurassic Party’s first-look deal with Awesomeness. AwesomenessTV head Brian Robbins and Awesomeness Films head Matt Kaplan will produce...
Bleecker Street has set a September 30 awards season release date for Denial, the Rachel Weisz starrer based on Deborah E. Lipstadt’s book History On Trial: My Day In Court With A Holocaust Denier.
The story of Lipstadt’s legal battle with Holocaust denier David Irving stars Timothy Spall as the latter, as well as Tom Wilkinson and Andrew Scott.
Mick Jackson directs from David Hare’s adapted screenplay. Producing Denial are Gary Foster and Russ Krasnoff, while Participant Media’s Jeff Skoll and Jonathan King, BBC Films’ Christine Langan and Joe Oppenheimer, Bleecker Street’s Andrew Karpen, and Shoebox Films Guy Heeley serve as executive producers.
Awesomeness Films has acquired rights to Ya novel Spontaneous and set Brian Duffield to adapt. Duffield and Nicki Cortese will produce under their Jurassic Party’s first-look deal with Awesomeness. AwesomenessTV head Brian Robbins and Awesomeness Films head Matt Kaplan will produce...
- 6/2/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
“Insurgent” screenwriter Brian Duffield and Nicki Cortese have launched Jurassic Party, a new production company that has just signed a first-look deal with Awesomeness Films to produce young adult content, TheWrap has learned. “We are excited to welcome Jurassic Party into the Awesomeness family and dive into this collaboration,” said Matt Kaplan, president of Awesomeness Films. “Brian and Nicki are two of the most talented writers and producers in the business.” “Nicki did the flowers for my wedding, so obviously the next logical step was starting a company together,” said Duffield. “I’m thrilled to work with my friends at Awesomeness and.
- 11/18/2015
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
President Matt Kaplan illustrates scope of ambition in deal with Insurgent screenwriter Brian Duffield and Nicki Cortese’s new production company.
The Jurassic Party pact will skew towards young adult content and leaves no doubt as to the calibre of partners that Kaplan (pictured) and his team are eager to set up at Awesomeness.
Duffield also wrote Jane Got A Gun and wrote and currently serves as executive producer on horror film The Babysitter from director McG starring Bella Thorne.
Cortese most recently spent two years at Red Wagon.
The partnership was brought in by Awesomeness Films executive Max Siemers and comes on the heels of the studio’s recent casting announcement on Before I Fall, which Good Universe introduced to Afm buyers recently.
The Jurassic Party pact will skew towards young adult content and leaves no doubt as to the calibre of partners that Kaplan (pictured) and his team are eager to set up at Awesomeness.
Duffield also wrote Jane Got A Gun and wrote and currently serves as executive producer on horror film The Babysitter from director McG starring Bella Thorne.
Cortese most recently spent two years at Red Wagon.
The partnership was brought in by Awesomeness Films executive Max Siemers and comes on the heels of the studio’s recent casting announcement on Before I Fall, which Good Universe introduced to Afm buyers recently.
- 11/18/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The producers of the Divergent movies are developing a fresh take on H G Wells' The Invisible Man...
The Invisible Man is one of H G Wells’ more perverse little daydreams. Whereas The Time Machine dreamed of an agrarian future (if you get past what dwells below) and The War Of The Worlds was one of our first intergalactic space yarns, there is something a little more disturbing about a man who can not be seen.
It certainly made for one of the best genre movies of the 1930s when director James Whale (Frankenstein, Bride Of Frankenstein) introduced Hollywood to Claude Rains with the 1933 camp classic. Now, it is finding new life with a unique version at Sony Pictures Entertainment where the film will be produced under the Red Wagon Entertainment Banner by Lucy Fisher and Doug Wick. Lucas Wisendanger and Nicki Cortese are also serving as executive producers on the project.
The Invisible Man is one of H G Wells’ more perverse little daydreams. Whereas The Time Machine dreamed of an agrarian future (if you get past what dwells below) and The War Of The Worlds was one of our first intergalactic space yarns, there is something a little more disturbing about a man who can not be seen.
It certainly made for one of the best genre movies of the 1930s when director James Whale (Frankenstein, Bride Of Frankenstein) introduced Hollywood to Claude Rains with the 1933 camp classic. Now, it is finding new life with a unique version at Sony Pictures Entertainment where the film will be produced under the Red Wagon Entertainment Banner by Lucy Fisher and Doug Wick. Lucas Wisendanger and Nicki Cortese are also serving as executive producers on the project.
- 4/22/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
The former Lotus Entertainment executive arrives as president of production and will get to work on a director-driven, commercial slate.
The company will also invest in up to three films a year backed by a seven-figure fund for production, pre-production and equity investment in the $5-15m range.
Lauren and Gugenheim will work with David Boyle, who will continue to be integral to the company’s investments, productions and business development.
Gugenheim most recently served as evp of production and operations at Lotus Entertainment where he oversaw production on Kidnap starring Halle Berry and brought in Replicas starring Keanu Reeves as well as Tigers Curse with Shekhar Kapur directing.
He started his career working for Joel Zwick followed by stints at CAA and Paramount Vantage.
Red Wagon Entertainment co-heads Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher have promoted Charlie Morrison to vice-president. Morrison will work alongside vice-president of motion picture and television Nicki Cortese and creative executive Lucas Wiesendanger...
The company will also invest in up to three films a year backed by a seven-figure fund for production, pre-production and equity investment in the $5-15m range.
Lauren and Gugenheim will work with David Boyle, who will continue to be integral to the company’s investments, productions and business development.
Gugenheim most recently served as evp of production and operations at Lotus Entertainment where he oversaw production on Kidnap starring Halle Berry and brought in Replicas starring Keanu Reeves as well as Tigers Curse with Shekhar Kapur directing.
He started his career working for Joel Zwick followed by stints at CAA and Paramount Vantage.
Red Wagon Entertainment co-heads Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher have promoted Charlie Morrison to vice-president. Morrison will work alongside vice-president of motion picture and television Nicki Cortese and creative executive Lucas Wiesendanger...
- 4/9/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Zac Efron will star in and produce an upcoming big screen adaptation of John Grisham’s novel The Associate.
The books follows Kyle McAvoy, who grew up in his father’s small-town law office in York, Pennsylvania. He excelled in college, was elected editor-in-chief of The Yale Law Journal, and his future has limitless potential.
But Kyle has a secret, a dark one, an episode from college that he has tried to forget. The secret, though, falls into the hands of the wrong people, and Kyle is forced to take a job he doesn’t want—even though it’s a job most law students can only dream about.
Three months after leaving Yale, Kyle becomes an associate at the largest law firm in the world, where, in addition to practicing law, he is expected to lie, steal, and take part in a scheme that could send him to prison,...
The books follows Kyle McAvoy, who grew up in his father’s small-town law office in York, Pennsylvania. He excelled in college, was elected editor-in-chief of The Yale Law Journal, and his future has limitless potential.
But Kyle has a secret, a dark one, an episode from college that he has tried to forget. The secret, though, falls into the hands of the wrong people, and Kyle is forced to take a job he doesn’t want—even though it’s a job most law students can only dream about.
Three months after leaving Yale, Kyle becomes an associate at the largest law firm in the world, where, in addition to practicing law, he is expected to lie, steal, and take part in a scheme that could send him to prison,...
- 4/3/2014
- by Laura Frances
- LRMonline.com
Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher’s Red Wagon Entertainment has hired former Weed Road Pictures exec Nicki Cortese as VP Film and Television. The former ICMer spent the past five years at Akiva Goldsman’s Weed Road. She will work closely with Red Wagon creative executive Charlie Morrison. Said Wick in announcing her hire: “Nicki arrives with extraordinary creative relationships and she brings the energy and talent to put them all to use.” Added Fisher: “We especially appreciate what a magnet she is for newer writers.” Red Wagon is currently in post on Divergent, the first in the trilogy based on Veronica Roth’s bestselling novels, which is being released March 21. The company also recently produced Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby.
- 2/3/2014
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Red Wagon Entertainment has hired former Weed Road Pictures exec Nicki Cortese as vp film and television. She will work closely with Red Wagon creative executive Charlie Morrison. “Nicki arrives with extraordinary creative relationships, and she brings the energy and talent to put them all to use,” said Red Wagon co-head Doug Wick in a statement, while co-head Lucy Fisher added, “We especially appreciate what a magnet she is for newer writers.” Red Wagon is currently in post-production on Divergent, the first installment of its adaptation of Veronica Roth’s best-selling Ya trilogy. The film,
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- 2/3/2014
- by Rebecca Sun
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Brian Duffield, the writer behind Black List script Your Bridesmaid's a Bitch and upcoming project Jane Got a Gun, will make his directorial debut with the horror-romance Vivien Hasn't Been Herself Lately. Aldamisa Entertainment and Neal Dodson, Corey Moosa and Zachary Quinto's Before the Door Pictures will produce. Nicki Cortese will serve as executive producer. Duffield, who is currently writing Summit's Ya sequel Insurgent, also wrote Vivien Hasn't Been Herself Lately. The film follows a married couple as they deal with a supernatural entity. The project is currently casting. Aldamisa International's executive vp sales and distribution Eric Min will
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- 12/11/2013
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Aldamisa International will commence pre-sales in the run-up to Berlin on the horror-romance Vivien Hasn’t Been Herself Lately.
Aldamisa Entertainment closed a deal with Neal Dodson, Corey Moosa and Zachary Quinto’s Before The Door Pictures to produce Brian Duffield’s directorial debut.
Vivien Hasn’t Been Herself Lately centres on a married couple as they struggle to survive against a supernatural entity. Aldamisa and Before the Door are out to cast.
“Vivien has always been a project close to my heart, and I couldn’t be more excited to be working with such phenomenal producers as Neal, Corey, Zachary and Nicki,” said Duffield.
“Their dedication to making unique, character-driven films makes them the perfect partners to go on this adventure with. I feel incredibly lucky to have them and Aldamisa supporting me on my first film.”
Executive producer Nicki Cortese introduced the script to Aldamisa and Before The Door.
“Immediately after reading...
Aldamisa Entertainment closed a deal with Neal Dodson, Corey Moosa and Zachary Quinto’s Before The Door Pictures to produce Brian Duffield’s directorial debut.
Vivien Hasn’t Been Herself Lately centres on a married couple as they struggle to survive against a supernatural entity. Aldamisa and Before the Door are out to cast.
“Vivien has always been a project close to my heart, and I couldn’t be more excited to be working with such phenomenal producers as Neal, Corey, Zachary and Nicki,” said Duffield.
“Their dedication to making unique, character-driven films makes them the perfect partners to go on this adventure with. I feel incredibly lucky to have them and Aldamisa supporting me on my first film.”
Executive producer Nicki Cortese introduced the script to Aldamisa and Before The Door.
“Immediately after reading...
- 12/11/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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