EXCLUSIVE: Yorgos Lanthimos is set to write and direct Pop. 1280, an adaptation of the Jim Thompson crime novel for Imperative Entertainment. Element Pictures will produce with Imperative and Lanthimos, in association with Discovery Productions. Project is high priority. Lanthimos’ The Favourite is up for 10 Oscars…

Coming into its second Cannes Film Festival since Micah Green left his post as CAA Film Finance and Sales Group co-head to partner with Texas-based Dan Friedkin in 30WEST, the company has lived up to its promise as a disruptive force in the indie film space. If it was initially hard to figure out 30WEST's place in…

Guy Pearce, Claes Bang, Vicky Krieps and Roland Møller are starring in Lyrebird, the true story about an art forger who victimized the Nazis with bang-on copies of masterpieces. The film marks the directorial debut by Dan Friedkin, whose Imperative Entertainment is producing with Ridley Scott. Production is underway…

Imperative Entertainment has optioned rights to The White Darkness, a survival drama based on an article that David Grann wrote in the latest issue of The New Yorker. Imperative's Dan Friedkin and Bradley Thomas will produce. It puts them back in business with Grann: Before it made the Ridley Scott-directed All the Mon…

30WEST has acquired a majority stake in NEON, the upstart distribution company formed by Tom Quinn and Alamo Drafthouse’s Tim League. The two parties got into an altared state after kindling a relationship on the awards-season sleeper I, Tonya, the Craig Gillespie-directed black comedy which was acquired out of…

Director Ridley Scott unveiled his new film All the Money in the World to press and for consideration by the Producers Guild over the weekend. By his estimate, that meant staging “200 interviews in the last two days, and seven screenings." Scott said the film got as strong a reaction as it did when a wet print was…

It all started with an early November defiant decision by director Ridley Scott and Imperative Entertainment’s Dan Friedkin to drop Kevin Spacey from All the Money In The World and recast with Christopher Plummer in the small but crucial role of J Paul Getty. Between that moment and now, Scott did his reshoots…

EXCLUSIVE: Imperative Entertainment has promoted Jillian Apfelbaum to be Head of Film. She had been VP Content. She continues report to partners Dan Friedkin and Bradley Thomas. Apfelbaum will be responsible for acquiring projects for development, with COO John Atwood. She is a producer for film, television and live…

EXCLUSIVE: The upstart 30WEST has made its third splashy deal at the Toronto Film Festival, acquiring the North American distribution rights to Beast, the Michael Pearce-directed film that premiered Saturday at the Winter Garden Theatre. The deal is seven figures, including P&A spend. Co-founded by Dan Friedkin and Mic…

EXCLUSIVE: 30WEST is the official name of the venture that Dan Friedkin and Micah Green formed in April, the one that compelled Green to leave his post as co-head of the CAA Finance and Sales Group. 30WEST already has offices in Los Angeles and New York, and is providing capital and strategic guidance to ambitious…

After co-heading the CAA Film Finance and Sales Group with Roeg Sutherland for over a decade, Micah Green shocked the indie film community by leaving to form a venture with entrepreneur Dan Friedkin, backer of producer/financier Imperative Entertainment. Long considered one of the brightest agents piecing together…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA film finance agents Tristen Tuckfield and Adam Paulsen are leaving to join the new venture that Micah Green formed with Texas-based entrepreneur Dan Friedkin. Their hiring comes on the heels of Dan Steinman leaving his post as Black Bear Pictures co-president/COO and Elevation CEO to join the venture…