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EXCLUSIVE: Bilal Baig, co-creator and star of Peabody Award-winning series Sort Of, has signed with Anonymous Content for representation. Baig is a queer, trans-feminine, Muslim playwright, performer and workshop facilitator. Most recently, Baig co-created, executive produces and stars in Sort Of…

EXCLUSIVE: Actor and producer Jeffrey Dean Morgan, best known for his roles on AMC's The Walking Dead, CW's Supernatural, and ABC's Grey's Anatomy, has signed with Anonymous Content.  Morgan can be seen in the recently concluded 11th and final season of the hit AMC series, The Walking Dead…

EXCLUSIVE: After months of rumors and a three month exclusive negotiating period, Anonymous Content is now near a deal to acquire the prolific production company Automatik. There’s a twist here: Deadline reported that Anonymous was in talks for Grandview/Automatik. But The Dish hears that Grandview won’t…

EXCLUSIVE: Writer, director, producer, and actor Jim Cummings (The Beta Test) has signed with Anonymous Content for management. Cummings is an acclaimed indie filmmaker who most recently teamed with PJ McCabe to co-write and direct The Beta Test — a genre-bending feature, which world premiered at the…

EXCLUSIVE: Anonymous Content, Alexander Rodnyansky’s AR Content and The Atlantic are teaming to adapt journalist Peter Pomerantsev's article for The Atlantic ‘We Can Only Be Enemies’ for film. Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi, the Ukrainian director of well-received Cannes festival drama The Tribe, is…

Marking another major merger in the representation world, sources tell Deadline that Anonymous Content is in exclusive negotiations to acquire management and production firm Grandview/Automatik. The two companies have had discussions about a potential merger going all the way back to the spring, with nothing serious…

Stay in tune with younger generations and be open to fresh perspectives while remaining true to a core remit were among tips meted out by top film execs on a Zurich Summit panel on Saturday, exploring how to future-proof independent film businesses in an era of rapid change. "You need to listen to the younger people…

EXCLUSIVE: Anonymous Content and Impact Partners have teamed to produce a new doc on a China-based “mistress dispeller,” to be directed and produced by award-winning filmmaker Elizabeth Lo (Stray). Plans for a scripted adaptation of the documentary are also in the works. The as-yet-untitled feature watches as the…

Netflix’s series adaptation of Australian novel Boy Swallows Universe has unveiled its cast, and first images from the shoot have been released. Travis Fimmel (Vikings, Warcraft, Raised by Wolves), Simon Baker (The Mentalist, Breath) and Phoebe Tonkin (Babylon, Kid Snow, Westworld) topline an ensemble cast for the…

EXCLUSIVE: Garrett Kemble, an 11-year Universal Content Productions veteran, has joined Anonymous Content as EVP of Development for AC Studios, the independent film and TV production studio that sits inside the management/production company. He will work across both film and television development. Kemble left UCP…

EXCLUSIVE: Anonymous Content has hired former Bron executive David Davoli as President of International, based in New York. Davoli will oversee the company's international division including its various global joint ventures — Anonymous/Federation, AC Nordic, AC Brazil and Chapter One in the UK. He will be tasked with…

Netflix has bagged Thomas M. Wright’s tense Cannes thriller The Stranger and will premiere it globally in October. The Australian drama had its world premiere in the Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival this year, where Deadline critic Anna Smith said it revealed “quietly compelling insight” about the nature…