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When assessing the diversity strength of the Golden Globes this morning, look no further than Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson’s Color Force production label. It racked up eight nominations across their Warner Bros feature Crazy Rich Asians and FX Ryan Murphy series Pose and The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American…

EXCLUSIVE: With cyber-hacking such a critical topic across the county and especially in the entertainment industry with HBO the latest to be victimized, The Hacker is Watching at 20th Century Fox just got UK-based screenwriter/director Julian Simpson (Dr. Who) signed on to pen the cyber-thriller. The Hacker is Watching…

EXCLUSIVE: Pearl Street Films exec Margaret Chernin has been named VP Development at Color Force, the film and TV production company run by Nina Jacboson and Brad Simpson. She already is aboard and will oversee the company’s film productions and development. As SVP Development at Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s Pearl…

EXCLUSIVE: Kristen Wiig is in negotiations to star in Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go Bernadette? Annapurna and Nina Jacobson’s Color Force are producing. The drama follows a once famous Los Angeles architect-turned-recluse who disappears, prompting her techie husband and her 15 year-old daughter Bee to go on a…

Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson’s Color Force has hired its first dedicated TV executive, appointing Nellie Reed as SVP Television. Reed will oversee Color Force's current TV production slate as well as the buying and development of future projects, reporting to Jacobson and Simpson. Reed’s appointment comes on the…

Fox 2000 president Elizabeth Gabler has made a three-year first look deal with Color Force, the production banner run by Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson. The first film under the new pact will be an adaptation of the Robert Crais novel Suspect. Deal comes after Jacobson completed the quartet of The Hunger Games films…

EXCLUSIVE: Ivanhoe Pictures, the monied production company that launched in Toronto last month as a partnership between venture capitalist Robert Friedland, indie film vet John Penotti and Beijing-based Ray Chen, have found their first picture to stake. They are joining Color Force‘s Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson to…

Color Force CEO Nina Jacobson has acquired feature rights to first-time novelist Kevin Kwan's comedic best-seller Crazy Rich Asians. Jacobson will produce with partner Brad Simpson and senior veep Bryan Unkeless will oversee development. The producer is working with the author’s reps at UTA to get this funded outside…

LOS ANGELES, February 28, 2012 – Producer Brad Simpson has joined growing production company Color Force as a partner, it was announced today by company principal Nina Jacobson. Simpson, who produced the hugely successful DIARY OF A WIMPY KID films with Jacobson, will focus on expanding Color Force's production slate…