EXCLUSIVE: A Private War producers Matthew George and Joe Gelchion and Law Abiding Citizen producer Robert Katz are joining the production team for Katie Holmes and Josh Lucas pic The Secret. Gelchion’s Tri-G, George’s Savvy Media Holdings and Katz’s Shine Box will fully finance the previously announced film, which…

Indie producer-financier-distributor Covert Media has hired onetime Relativity Media exec Linda Benjamin as Chief Operating Officer and Head of Business and Legal Affairs. She comes aboard ahead of the kickoff of the American Film market tomorrow and will be tasked with identifying and executing strategic…

EXCLUSIVE: Daisy Ridley and Naomi Watts’ Ophelia has found its Hamlet — and more. Captain Fantastic‘s George MacKay has joined the reimagining of Shakespeare’s famed tragedy playing the Prince of Denmark. Clive Owen (Claudius), Harry Potter‘s Tom Felton (Laertes) and Devon Terrell (Horatio) have also boarded the Covert…

EXCLUSIVE: TV producer and former Key And Peele writer Rich Talarico has sold his film pitch Kansas to Covert Media and Broken Road Productions. Plot details are being kept under wraps but it is described as an unusual/Charlie Kaufman-esque project. It’s the first project Covert has purchased based solely off a…

Indie producer-financier-distributor Covert Media has hired Jim Harvey as SVP International Sales, the company’s latest move as it preps for business beginning next week at the Toronto Film Festival. Previously EVP of Inception Film Partners and before that EVP Sales at Affinity/Bold Films, Harvey joins a week after…

Independent production, financing and distribution company Covert Media has formed international sales label Lexica Films and plans to launch five to 10 films per year through it. Covert's President of International, Liz Kim Schwan, will lead the new division. The first title will be the Russian-language disaster film…

Independent production and distribution company Covert Media has inked a two-year, first look co-financing and co-production deal with Knight and Day and XXX producer Todd Garner and his Broken Road Productions label. Garner and Covert Media CEO, Paul Hanson made the announcement today. Deal calls for two to four…

EXCLUSIVE: Daisy Ridley and Naomi Watts are in final talks to star in Ophelia, a re-imagining of Shakespeare’s classic Hamlet through the eyes of the play’s famously doomed heroine. Covert Media has boarded to finance and handle international sales at Cannes. In Shakespeare’s play, Ophelia is one of only two female…

Former Steven Avery co-counsel Dean Strang, one of the breakout stars of Netflix’s hugely popular docuseries Making A Murderer, is toplining his own docuseries that examines legal cases. Titled Dean Strang: Road To Justice, the eight-episode series, now in development, is the first TV project for Covert Media, the…

Independent feature production, financing, and distribution company Covert Media is taking its first step into television, naming former Electus development executive Saul Goldberg VP, Head of Unscripted TV. This is the first hire for the new company that launched in August, following the appointment of Elizabeth…

Newly established film production outfit Covert Media has announced the hiring of sales veteran Elizabeth Kim Schwan as President, International. Schwan will be joining the Covert team in Toronto during TIFF as the company meets potential production and distribution partners during the fest that kicks off…

Veteran film executive Paul Hanson has partnered with Media Content Capital to launch Covert Media, a new feature production, financing and distribution company based in Los Angeles. Hanson, formerly COO of QED International and, later, of Annapurna Pictures, will serve as CEO. Media Content Capital has pledged to…