The Film Arcade has acquired U.S. rights to Family, the comedy written and directed by Laura Steinel and starring Taylor Schilling that world premiered earlier this year at SXSW. Brian Tyree Henry, Jessie Ennis, Kate McKinnon and newcomer Bryn Vale also star in the pic, which now will get a spring 2019 theatrical release.
Schilling plays a workaholic hedge fund exec who must save her 12-year-old niece (Vale) who runs away to become a “juggalo” — a superfan of the group Insane Clown Posse. Matt Walsh, Allison Tolman and Eric Edelstein co-star. Annapurna’s Sue Naegle and Kit Giordano are producers, and Steinel, Dan Kaplow, Schilling and Jeremy Garelick are executive producers.
UTA, which reps Steinel, negotiated the deal for the filmmakers with The Law Offices of Greg S. Bernstein on behalf of The Film Arcade.
Schilling plays a workaholic hedge fund exec who must save her 12-year-old niece (Vale) who runs away to become a “juggalo” — a superfan of the group Insane Clown Posse. Matt Walsh, Allison Tolman and Eric Edelstein co-star. Annapurna’s Sue Naegle and Kit Giordano are producers, and Steinel, Dan Kaplow, Schilling and Jeremy Garelick are executive producers.
UTA, which reps Steinel, negotiated the deal for the filmmakers with The Law Offices of Greg S. Bernstein on behalf of The Film Arcade.
- 9/12/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Annapurna Pictures has tapped former HBO Entertainment President Sue Naegle to head a new TV production arm, the company announced on Tuesday. The executive will be joined by Kit Giordano and Ali Krug of her own TV and film production company Naegle Ink. Giordano and Krug will serve as senior vice president and vice president, respectively. Projects which are currently in development at Naegle Ink will transition to Annapurna, including a series in development for Epix, written by Angela Robinson and Alex Kondrake, about the intersecting lives of Hollywood icons and rivals Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich. Also Read: Erik Lomis to Exit The.
- 9/27/2016
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Former President of HBO Entertainment Sue Naegle will head the new Annapurna Television production arm.
The principal of Naegle Ink will spearhead Annapurna’s television production and development alongside founder Megan Ellison.
Naegle has run her own television and film production company for the last three years and will transfer various development projects to Annapurna.
She serves as an executive producer on Robert Kirkman’s Outcast on Cinemax and has set up development projects at HBO and other cable networks.
As president of HBO Entertainment she shepherded such shows as recent Emmy winners Game Of Thrones and Veep, as well as Boardwalk Empire, True Blood, Treme, Eastbound And Down, Enlightened, and Girls.
Joining Naegle in the transition will be top Naegle Ink executives Kit Giordano and Ali Krug, who will serve as senior vice-president and vice-president, respectively.
“We are thrilled to further expand our television business and continue our commitment to all forms of storytelling,” said Ellison...
The principal of Naegle Ink will spearhead Annapurna’s television production and development alongside founder Megan Ellison.
Naegle has run her own television and film production company for the last three years and will transfer various development projects to Annapurna.
She serves as an executive producer on Robert Kirkman’s Outcast on Cinemax and has set up development projects at HBO and other cable networks.
As president of HBO Entertainment she shepherded such shows as recent Emmy winners Game Of Thrones and Veep, as well as Boardwalk Empire, True Blood, Treme, Eastbound And Down, Enlightened, and Girls.
Joining Naegle in the transition will be top Naegle Ink executives Kit Giordano and Ali Krug, who will serve as senior vice-president and vice-president, respectively.
“We are thrilled to further expand our television business and continue our commitment to all forms of storytelling,” said Ellison...
- 9/27/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Chris Meledandri’s Illumination Entertainment is continuing to ramp up its infrastructure by bringing two crucial hires onto its leadership team. The four-year-old company made several additions earlier this year, and now, Meledandri has announced the hirings of Brooke Breton as a senior production executive and Kit Giordano as Director of Development. Simultaneously, Kristin Wong-Ward has been promoted into the creative executive role. Breton is currently producing the Despicable Me theme park attraction for Illumination, which is slated to open in 2012 at Universal Studios Orlando, and also has a long history as a producer of prominent live-action and animated motion pictures. She spent several years at Lightstorm Entertainment, where she served as co-producer on James Cameron’s Avatar, among other projects. Prior to that Breton co-produced Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow for Paramount Pictures, and was also involved in the establishment of DreamWorks Animation where she produced The Road To El Dorado.
- 9/27/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
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