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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…

Endeavor Content has optioned Emily Ziff Griffin’s New Yorker essay “The Last Dance with My Dad” for film, with Lynette Howell Taylor and Samantha Housman on board to produce the adaptation for 51 Entertainment. The Last Dance with My Dad is billed as a coming-of-age story about a father-daughter bond set against the…

The Lost Daughter, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut, is “a searing portrait of parenthood, about womanhood, but about so much more than that,” says producing partner Endeavor Content’s Negeen Yazdi, senior vice president of film development and production. Searing is right. The film, adapted by Gyllenhaal from…

Beloved children’s book series Mr Men Little Miss is to be adapted for TV as producer-distributor Endeavor Content closes a deal with license holder Sanrio. The deal will allow Endeavor to create TV properties around the emotion-centered characters, which were written by Roger Hargreaves in the 1970s and helped light…

EXCLUSIVE: The stories of a sex worker, a poacher hunter, a commando and a modern monk are among those being told in a new docuseries exec produced by Kathryn Bigelow. The Hurt Locker director has teamed up with a slew of filmmakers from around the world,  Endeavor Content and Smuggler Entertainment to produce…

EXCLUSIVE: Endeavor Content, Division7 and Film 45 have teamed to produce Unlikely Heroes, a documentary that explores the origins and global mystique of and enduring, emotional fascination with the giant panda. Addison O’Dea is directing the pic, with Endeavor Content financing the film and handling sales in…

WME on Monday launched WME Independent, a division to broker domestic and international film sales and film financing consulting services. It will be headed by Deborah McIntosh and Alex Walton, both of whom were most recently at Endeavor Content. Those deals had for years been steered under Endeavor Content, but that…

Netflix India’s Ray Donovan Adaptation Netflix India is lining up a local adaptation of hit U.S. series Ray Donovan. The crime-action-drama, titled Rana Naidu, will see actor Rana Daggubati sharing screen time for the first time with his uncle Venkatesh Daggubati. Produced by Locomotive Global, the series is an…

EXCLUSIVE: Endeavor Content is getting into the Russian-language drama business. The production and distribution arm of Endeavor is backing action drama Hope from Russian streamer Start. The division, which has previously backed series including Killing Eve and Normal People, will handle international distribution for…

I Know This Much Is True executive producer Lynette Howell Taylor has struck a first-look TV deal with Endeavor Content via her production company 51 Entertainment. Howell Taylor, who also recently produced the 92nd Academy Awards and whose other credits including A Star Is Born, The Accountant and Blue Valentine, is…

Three Scandinavian drama producers behind shows such as Modus and Occupied have set up a new production company backed by Endeavor Content. The Hollywood studio, whose parent company is currently in sale talks to sell a majority stake in the business, is investing in Nordic Drama Queens. The Stockholm and…

Endeavor Group Holdings execs confirmed that talks are under way for the sale of a majority stake in production outfit Endeavor Content. “Although we’re in the early stages, we’ve already received a lot of incoming interest,” CFO Jason Lublin said during the company’s second-quarter earnings call with Wall Street…