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What’s In Store For Endeavor Content 2.0? Co-CEOs Graham Taylor & Chris Rice On CJ-Backed Future
EXCLUSIVE: Endeavor Content co-CEOs Graham Taylor and Chris Rice woke up today with new majority owners. Hatched under the Endeavor umbrella four years ago, Endeavor Content financed, packaged and sold over 100 series and films that included Just Mercy, The Lost Daughter and Killing Eve. Endeavor, which owns WME, was…
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Endeavor Content Sets First-Look Film Producing Deal With Stephanie Allain
EXCLUSIVE: Endeavor Content has set a first-look producing deal with Stephanie Allain for feature films.
Allain is the producer who has won Independent Spirit Awards, NAACP and Image Awards, and who became the first woman of color to produce the Academy Awards when she teamed with Lynette Howell Taylor. They were Emmy…
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Endeavor Content Partner Mark Ankner Exits To Partner With Drake & Adel “Future” Nur’s DreamCrew Entertainment
EXCLUSIVE: Longtime Endeavor Content Partner Mark Ankner is leaving to become a partner at DreamCrew Entertainment, the production company of Drake and Adel "Future" Nur. In his role Ankner will oversee content development, production and financing opportunities for the company. Ankner's hire marks the continued…
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Endeavor Content’s Chris Rice Out To Disrupt Production & Business Mechanics In TV — Deadline Disruptors
"We don't want to produce, that's not our goal," says Chris Rice, co-president of Endeavor Content. The content division of talent agency WME-IMG does, however, want to disrupt the mechanics behind production as well as find business where it historically does not exist.
Rice oversees the company's global TV and film…
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Endeavor Content’s Graham Taylor: “We’re Trying To Make Dreams Come True” – INTV
By way of explaining Endeavor Content's aim, Co-President Graham Taylor told the INTV conference here in Jerusalem today, “All we're trying to do is make dreams come true.” He was being slightly cheeky at the close of a panel titled “Disruption in Film,” but added quite seriously, “Apathy and cynicism are the death of…
Preferred Content CEO Kevin Iwashina Joins Endeavor Content As Agent
EXCLUSIVE: Preferred Content founder and CEO Kevin Iwashina has joined Endeavor Content, the division formerly known as WME Global led by co-presidents Graham Taylor and Chris Rice. Iwashina will wind down his company and join Endeavor Content as an agent focusing on non-fiction content. He will work alongside the…
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WME | IMG Finance, Sales Become Endeavor Content; TWC’s Negeen Yazdi, MRC’s Joe Hipps Join
WME and IMG’s film and scripted television finance and sales groups have been brought together under Endeavor Content, a label that will be steered by co-presidents and WME partners Graham Taylor and Chris Rice. The move comes a week after WME | IMG revived the Endeavor label as a holding company, bringing back the…
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WME|IMG Acquires Ken Kao & Alex Walton’s Sales/Financing Company Bloom
EXCLUSIVE: WME/IMG has closed a deal to acquire a majority interest in Ken Kao and Alex Walton's film financing/sales company Bloom. The deal is being announced internally as you read this, but the agency has confirmed it to Deadline. The agency said while it will use its resources to help grow Bloom, that company…
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How Agencies Became So Vital To The Indie Film Ecosystem — Deadline Disruptors
When the major talent agencies—CAA, WMA & Endeavor (now WME) and UTA—started indie film departments, the idea was to help big clients get their passion—some called them vanity—projects made. That seems like a million years ago. These departments have become such prolific generators that they have become the life blood…
Bart & Fleming: The Big Sundance Deals; Why Are Jon Stewart And Stephen Colbert Not Lacerating White House Candidates?
Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this weekly column, two old friends get together and grind their axes on the movie business.
FLEMING: I could start with Oscar diversity, and how that Janice Min THR interview with AMPAS’ Cheryl Boone Isaacs and Dawn Hudson about…
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WME Mints 20 Partners; Sundance Stalwarts Mark Ankner, Liesl Copland, Alexis Garcia
BREAKING: WME has minted 20 new partners into the agency fold, and those include the tireless Sundance dealmakers working under WME Global Finance & Distribution chief Graham Taylor. Mark Ankner, Liesl Copland and Alexis Garcia all have made partner.
On the talent side, Esther Chang, Brandon Liebman, Doug Lucterhand…
AFM: Image Acquires 'Blair Witch' Helmer's Toronto Thriller 'Lovely Molly'
EXCLUSIVE: Image Entertainment has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Lovely Molly, the thriller directed by Blair Witch Project co-director Eduardo Sanchez. The deal is high six figures and the plan is to release theatrically next spring. Lovely Molly made its debut in the Midnight Madness section of the 2011…
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