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Apple Original Films & Nike Team For Multi Year First Look On Sports Films; Brad Weston’s Makeready & Nike’s Waffle Iron To Produce
EXCLUSIVE: Apple Original Films has set a first-look feature deal with Nike's Waffle Iron Entertainment and Makeready, to develop and produce sports films.
The companies will team up to deliver a slate of films to inspire the next generation of athletes and celebrate the power of sport. It comes at a moment when…
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Collin Creighton Joins Makeready To Oversee Production Slate
EXCLUSIVE: Makeready has brought in Collin Creighton to be a producing partner alongside founder Brad Weston and oversee the company's production slate. Creighton most recently served as Director of Original Studio Film at Netflix, where during his tenure he was instrumental in building out the company's original film…
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Brad Weston’s Makeready Moves To Endeavor Content In Multi-Year Joint Venture Film & TV Pact
EXCLUSIVE: Endeavor Content has made a partnership with veteran producer and former studio executive Brad Weston and his Makeready banner. They’ve made a multi-year deal to finance and produce film, TV and documentary content. It positions Weston to become a cornerstone content supplier to the global film/TV studio…
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Oscar Winner ‘Another Round’ In Remake Deal With Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way, Makeready & Endeavor Content
EXCLUSIVE: English-language remake rights to Thomas Vinterberg’s Best International Film Oscar winner Another Round have been acquired after an auction. The film will be developed as a potential star vehicle for Leonardo DiCaprio and was won in a bid by his and Jennifer Davisson’s Appian Way, Endeavor Content and Brad…
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Makeready Options New Fantasy Trilogy ‘The Gilded Ones;’ Sets Tyro Author Namina Forna To Adapt
EXCLUSIVE: Makeready will turn the fantasy tale The Gilded Ones into a film, and the producer/financier has set its author, Namina Forna, to write the script in the first of what will be a trilogy. The novel debuted this week in the U.S. through the Penguin Random House imprint Delacorte Press, this after bowing in…
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Netflix Finalizing GameStop Stock Movie Package; Mark Boal In Talks To Write, Noah Centineo Attached, Scott Galloway To Consult
EXCLUSIVE: As Wall Street developments unfold in real time in the David V Goliath battle between hedge funds and social media-fueled day traders that sent shares of GameStop soaring 135% on a single day, a bull market is developing for projects chronicling this unprecedented episode and its greater…
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HBO Max Buys Film Pitch ‘Catching Out’; ‘Beautiful Boy’s Nic Sheff Scripting & ‘13 Reasons Why’’s Brian Yorkey Producing With Makeready’s Brad Weston
EXCLUSIVE: Upstart HBO Max has closed a deal for Catching Out, a feature pitch that will be scripted by Nic Sheff with 13 Reasons Why creator Brian Yorkey producing with Makeready’s Brad Weston.
HBO Max stepped up in a competitive situation for a drama that is an exploration of a youth subculture.
Yorkey created the…
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Makeready Brings Negin Salmasi Aboard As Film & TV Executive
EXCLUSIVE: Makeready has hired Negin Salmasi to become a production and development executive for film and television. She will report to Makeready Principals, Pam Abdy and Peter Johnson, who oversee film and television.
Salmasi moves from See-Saw Films, where she headed that company’s U.S. office in Los Angeles…
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Jill Soloway, Julianne Moore Team For ‘Mothertrucker’ At Makeready
BREAKING: Makeready has set Jill Soloway to write and direct the upcoming Amy Butcher memoir Mothertrucker as a feature starring vehicle for Oscar winning actress Julianne Moore. Butcher is the award winning essayist and author, and Soloway the Emmy-winning writer/producer behind Transparent, I Love Dick and Afternoon…
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Brad Weston’s Makeready Taps Peter Johnson As Head Of Television
EXCLUSIVE: Veteran development executive and producer Peter Johnson has joined Makeready, Brad Weston’s independent studio and financier for film, television and branded content, as head of television.
Johnson, who recently departed MRC after a two-year stint as President of Television Development, succeeds Scott…
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Jennifer Lawrence, Paolo Sorrentino Team On Makeready Mafia Story ‘Mob Girl’
Makeready has set a feature adaptation of Pulitzer Prize reporter Teresa Carpenter’s non fiction crime story Mob Girl, with Jennifer Lawrence to star as the mob wife turned police informant Arlyne Brickman, and Paolo Sorrentino to direct the film. Angelina Burnett (Halt and Catch Fire, The Americans) has written the…
‘This Is America’ Helmer Hiro Murai & Producing Partner Nate Matteson Set 2-Year Makeready Deal
EXCLUSIVE: Makeready has locked a non-exclusive two-year deal with Hiro Murai, the visionary, disruptive director hailed for his collaborations with Donald Glover that so far encompass the FX series Atlanta, the provocative music video for “This Is America,” and the Amazon musical Guava Island, which Glover starred in…
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