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The Sundance Institute Board of Trustees today named Ebs Burnough to serve as the nonprofit's next Chair, Board of Trustees, starting in October. The org also announced today two new Vice Chairs of the Board: Walt Disney Studios President of Production Sean Bailey and Producer Gigi Pritzker, who will also begin their…

EXCLUSIVE: Loch Down Abbey, the debut novel by Beth Cowan-Erskine, is headed for the small screen. Madison Wells, Gigi Pritzker's company behind Nat Geo's Genius and 21 Bridges, is developing the book as a series after optioning the rights. The book, which Cowan-Erskine wrote during the pandemic and was published by…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that MWM Studios is in development on a new untitled series based on Emma Straub’s novel All Adults Here from Riverhead Books. Straub and Girls writer-producer Sarah Heyward are set to co-executive produce and co-write the series. All Adults Here follows the beautiful messiness of being…

EXCLUSIVE: Tina Mabry, a writer-director-producer on OWN’s drama series Queen Sugar, has been set to adapt Code of Silence, a feature film in the works at MWM Studios. The pic is based on a four-part article by Jamie Kalven in The Intercept in 2016, and tells the true story of Chicago police officer Shannon…

EXCLUSIVE: MWM (Madison Wells Media) has partnered with well-known Chicago-based artist Hebru Brantley and his Angry Hero Productions to create custom IPs for a brand new division, the MWM Universe. The division will now be overseen by Morgan Kruger who comes to MWM from Hulu. MWMU and Angry Hero will start developing…

EXCLUSIVE: Gigi Pritzker and Clint Kisker’s MWM (formerly Madison Wells Media) has just completed an investment in Breakwater Studios, the digital short and documentary content company founded by CEO Ben Proudfoot. The Series A transaction expands MWM's portfolio as it streamlines its operations under one company umbre…

EXCLUSIVE: Madison Wells Media has rebranded and brought all divisions under a new company name MWM, based in Century City. Part of the rebrand includes renamed divisions including MWM Studios (formerly OddLot Entertainment), MWM Immersive (formerly Reality One) and MWM Live (formerly Relevant Theatricals) as part of…

In film and television, it’s common to see characters at various ages and stages of their lives, portrayed by different actors—but, in the vein of Barry Jenkin’s Moonlight, it’s much less common to see multiple iterations of a character, each as fully realized as the next. Such is certainly the case with National Geogr…

EXCLUSIVE: OddLot Entertainment has acquired screen rights to the bestselling Ali Benjamin YA novel The Thing About Jellyfish. OddLot principal Gigi Pritzker will produce with Bruna Papandrea and Reese Witherspoon. Rachel Shane will be executive producer. The script will be written by Molly Smith Metzler, making her…

When it comes to mounting quintessential auterish independent films on the big screen today, chances are that OddLot Entertainment is there. The company co-founded by Gigi Pritzker has produced and co-financed such titles as this year’s awards season contender Hell or High Water, Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive and this…

There has been a fair amount of speculation since producer Robert Simonds, TPG Growth, Gigi Pritzker and Chinese concern Hony Capital announced their plans for “a next generation film studio” to finance, produce and self-distribute eight to 10 star-driven films every year. The group has already gone around the…

EXCLUSIVE: OddLot Entertainment is partnering with Sycamore Pictures to co-finance The Way, Way Back, the comedic drama written and being directed by Oscar-winning The Descendants co-scribes Nat Faxon and Jim Rash. Production kicked off yesterday in Massachusetts on the film, which stars Steve Carell, Toni Collette…