This week my assignment is to blog about a relevant production company. I'm picking three:
Crescendo Productions, helmed by Don Cheadle and which has a first-look deal with Showtime. Don plays Marty Kaan in Showtime's black comedy House of Lies.
Gerard Butler Alan Siegel Entertainment, primarily because Gerard is Scottish and I like him, but secondly because he has (make that had) a deal with James Franco to direct and star in The Garden of Last Days, and James Franco does interesting things such as his current Idiegogo campaign to raise $500K for his Palo Alto Stores. His walking out, and effectively killing the production, may not be cool, but... According to Deadline Hollywood, "Franco’s exit had to do with a disagreement with financier Millennium over the crew he wanted to hire. Basically, Franco put together a few that didn’t have the experience to get approval from the bond company. Millennium wouldn’t approve his choices." Read the story here
Media Rights Capital, producers of House of Cards. Don't need to say much about that Netflix breakout success. On their slate are a number of interesting projects, among them a crime science fiction, The Shining Girls, for which Leonardo CeCaprio will be an executive producer; and a medical drama, Knifeman, to be directed by David Cronenberg.
TV is going to be very interesting to watch as more and more big screen talent moves to smaller screen productions.
This is so interesting to watch, and see how television is stealing the talent, so to speak, actors started the move, and now directors are following the talent, and the good stories, I wonder how long it will take for the pendulum to swing back, and find equilibrium or is this it? Very interesting.
ReplyDeleteThese are all great, Lorraine and thanks for the links as well. Exciting times to be transitioning to TV / episodic writing. Wonder how you're going to connect with any of these companies? - leveraging them for your research to get them acquainted with you/your work will help you down the road.
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