A second group of filmmakers have petitioned WarnerMedia to reconsider its decision to shutter FilmStruck at month’s end. Here is . the second letter To whom it may concern at Turner and Warner Bros. Digital Networks: Roger Ebert once said "the movies are like a machine that generates empathy. It lets you understand a…

EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Lawrence has launched a new production company, Excellent Cadaver, and she has made a first-look film deal with Makeready where she and producing partner Justine Polsky will develop movie projects and star vehicles for the Oscar-winning actress. Makeready and Excellent Cadaver will produce them…

In a very competitive situation, Brad Weston’s Makeready has landed the rights to Gregg Hurwitz’s bestselling Orphan X book series with plans to adapt the thrillers into a TV series along with Justin Lin’s Perfect Storm Entertainment. Hurwitz, who penned 2017’s The Book of Henry directed by Colin Trevorrow, is set to…

After a five-year run as New Regency president and CEO that garnered two Best Picture winners—12 Years a Slave and Birdman—and nearly a third—The Revenant—Brad Weston left to form Makeready with funding from eOne and distribution through Universal Pictures. And the game plan, he says, was to go beyond the traditional…

EXCLUSIVE: In a seven-figure deal, Brad Weston's Makeready has pre-emptively acquired film rights to Freefall, a thriller novel by Jessica Barry that recently sold to HarperCollins to be published early next year. The deal comes on the heels of a Makeready acquisition for the James Frey novel Katerina, which Simon…

EXCLUSIVE: Following its sale to the Simon & Schuster imprint Scout Press, the James Frey novel Katerina has been pre-emptively acquired in a film rights deal by Brad Weston’s Makeready. Frey will write the script and be executive producer. Guymon Casady is producing through Entertainment 360, the production arm of…

TNT is developing East of Jingletown, a drama series from former CSI: NY executive producer/showrunner Pam Veasey, Girls Trip producer Will Packer and Makeready, Brad Weston’s Entertainment One-backed independent studio and financier for film, television and branded content. Written by Veasey, East of Jingletown is a…

EXCLUSIVE: Makeready has set Francis Lawrence to direct Five Faces of Maria, a fact-based drama that will go under the worldwide theatrical distribution deal with eOne and Universal Pictures that former New Regency CEO and Paramount president Brad Weston put in place when he launched the company. The film will be…

EXCLUSIVE: In a battle that played out all day among four bidders, Brad Weston’s newly launched Makeready won rights to adapt the Matthew Baker short story The Appearance. Ian MacAllister-McDonald, who wrote the true-crime thriller Rodney and Cheryl, will write the script, and The Picture Company partners Andrew Rona…

Two months after former New Regency president and CEO Brad Weston launched Makeready, his Entertainment One-backed independent studio and financier for film, television and branded content, he has tapped HBO-Cinemax executive Scott Nemes to head the company's television division, which continues to build its…

Brad Weston has launched Makeready, a funded production company backed by eOne and bolstered by a five-year agreement with Universal Pictures to handle worldwide distribution and marketing on two feature films per year. The first of those Weston expects will be ready for release in late 2018, with two to follow in…

This is happening quickly, but Brad Weston is stepping down as president and CEO of New Regency, a job he has held for the last five years. This comes after a run in which Regency has had two Best Picture winners and a Best Picture nominee in three straight years in The Revenant, Birdman and 12 Years A Slave, a…