Exclusive: Truly Original, the production company behind Ink Master and a number of The Real Housewives shows, is stepping up its presence on the west coast.
The Banijay-owned company has hired Christy Coffey as VP, Development and Talent. Coffey, who was previously worked with the likes of Netflix, Viacom and Big Fish Entertainment, will oversee casting and talent relations for the company. She has worked on shows such as Teen Mom, The Hills: Next Gen and Martha Knows Best.
She joins the west coast team that includes Head of Development Chachi Senior, who joined the company in January 2020, and VP, Development Erin Mechanic, who joined in March 2020, just as Covid started.
Senior has been leading the push in LA with co-CEOs Glenda Hersh and Steven Weinstock based in New York. The company has an office in Venice and is in the process of growing its development and production ranks there even further.
The Banijay-owned company has hired Christy Coffey as VP, Development and Talent. Coffey, who was previously worked with the likes of Netflix, Viacom and Big Fish Entertainment, will oversee casting and talent relations for the company. She has worked on shows such as Teen Mom, The Hills: Next Gen and Martha Knows Best.
She joins the west coast team that includes Head of Development Chachi Senior, who joined the company in January 2020, and VP, Development Erin Mechanic, who joined in March 2020, just as Covid started.
Senior has been leading the push in LA with co-CEOs Glenda Hersh and Steven Weinstock based in New York. The company has an office in Venice and is in the process of growing its development and production ranks there even further.
- 9/20/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: As principal photography wraps on its first two features, UK-based production house Fablemaze has boarded two new properties. Co-founders Toby and Matt Cook have acquired Skivvy, a screenplay by journalist and radio host James Silver, and have optioned American Midnight, a screenplay by Vanity Fair Confidential exec producer, Lucas Howe. Skivvy is described as a crime drama set on England's south coast where a petty drug dealer must risk his life in order to…...
- 11/7/2017
- Deadline
Filming has started in Western Australia on the new Ben C. Lucas science fiction thriller, Other Life,.
The film, starring Jessica De Gouw, Thomas Cocquerel, and Tj Power, will be shot of five weeks, with Entertainment One taking care of the release in Australia and New Zealand.
This is the second feature for Lucas, whose debut, Wasted on the Young, was acquired by Paramount in Australia and nominated for an Aacta Award after a successful festival circuit including Sydney Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Pusan International Film Festival, South By Southwest Film Festival, and Torino Film Festival.
Otherlife will be produced by Jamie Hilton, Michael Pontin, Janelle Landers, Aidan O.Bryan, Marco Mehlitz,Tommaso Fiacchino, and Bo Hyde. Executive producers include Phil Hunt, Compton Ross, Kendal Morgan Rhodes,Josh Pomeranz, Viv Scanu, and Stephen Boyle.
OtherLife is based on the popular novel, Solitaire, by Kelley Eskridge. The screenplay has...
The film, starring Jessica De Gouw, Thomas Cocquerel, and Tj Power, will be shot of five weeks, with Entertainment One taking care of the release in Australia and New Zealand.
This is the second feature for Lucas, whose debut, Wasted on the Young, was acquired by Paramount in Australia and nominated for an Aacta Award after a successful festival circuit including Sydney Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Pusan International Film Festival, South By Southwest Film Festival, and Torino Film Festival.
Otherlife will be produced by Jamie Hilton, Michael Pontin, Janelle Landers, Aidan O.Bryan, Marco Mehlitz,Tommaso Fiacchino, and Bo Hyde. Executive producers include Phil Hunt, Compton Ross, Kendal Morgan Rhodes,Josh Pomeranz, Viv Scanu, and Stephen Boyle.
OtherLife is based on the popular novel, Solitaire, by Kelley Eskridge. The screenplay has...
- 8/23/2015
- by Brian Karlovsky
- IF.com.au
I'm a massive fan of the apocalypse fiction of British author John Christopher (Aka Sam Youd). Have been for a long time. Even though his writing has a tendency to lean more towards the Ya end of storytelling (read: "The Tripods Trilogy") his tales of survival are often told in a refreshingly frank and brutal style.
That's why I was excited to hear that a joint venture between Lago in Germany and Cherry Road Films (the folks behind Southland Tales) would give one of his most beloved novels, "Empty World", new life on film. The man given the task of adapting it? American director, Lucas Howe, who luckily for us, is as much a fan of the novel as we are:
"For the screenplay, I've tried to hold true to the source material as much as possible. I got to know Sam Youd (John Christopher) during the course of optioning...
That's why I was excited to hear that a joint venture between Lago in Germany and Cherry Road Films (the folks behind Southland Tales) would give one of his most beloved novels, "Empty World", new life on film. The man given the task of adapting it? American director, Lucas Howe, who luckily for us, is as much a fan of the novel as we are:
"For the screenplay, I've tried to hold true to the source material as much as possible. I got to know Sam Youd (John Christopher) during the course of optioning...
- 1/13/2010
- QuietEarth.us
We've just discovered that an adaptation of John Christopher's 1977 post-apocalyptic novel, Empty World is in development! As it's coming from the same production house that gave us the fantastic looking Mr. Nobody (trailer) we've got high hopes that it'll be a worthy production.
Christopher is probably most known for his "Tripods" trilogy which, as we've reported, is currently being developed for film by none other than Alex Proyas. He is also the author of the Pa novel, "No Blade of Grass" (movie review) which was also adapted to film in the 1970s.
Synopsis:
Neil Miller thinks his comfortable life comes to an end when a car crash killed his family. But when he faces as a deadly virus that sweeps the world, killing the adult entire population and leaving the world in the hands of children, Neil must fight to survive the new landscape.
The film has even got a director attached,...
Christopher is probably most known for his "Tripods" trilogy which, as we've reported, is currently being developed for film by none other than Alex Proyas. He is also the author of the Pa novel, "No Blade of Grass" (movie review) which was also adapted to film in the 1970s.
Synopsis:
Neil Miller thinks his comfortable life comes to an end when a car crash killed his family. But when he faces as a deadly virus that sweeps the world, killing the adult entire population and leaving the world in the hands of children, Neil must fight to survive the new landscape.
The film has even got a director attached,...
- 1/9/2010
- QuietEarth.us
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