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Gunpowder & Sky Bolsters Development Team With Unscripted & Scripted Hires
EXCLUSIVE: Gunpowder & Sky, the production company behind Showtime's Sheryl and Discovery+'s Werner Herzog-narrated Last Exit: Space, is staffing up.
The company, founded by Van Toffler and Floris Bauer, has hired Catti Alvarez as VP, Unscripted Development and Natalie Gergely as VP, Scripted…
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By Peter White
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Gunpowder & Sky Strikes First-Look Podcast Deal With Audible
EXCLUSIVE: Gunpowder & Sky, the company founded by former MTV chief Van Toffler and former Endemol exec Floris Bauer, is formalizing its relationship with Audible.
The studio has struck a first-look deal with the Amazon-owned audio platform, expanding on its work that includes episodes of…
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BBC Studios Bolsters North America Team Following Record Growth With Janet Brown Hire & Tara Maitra Promotion
BBC Studios has bolstered its U.S. offering following a year of record growth by signing Gunpowder & Sky’s Janet Brown and promoting Tara Maitra.
Brown becomes President, Content Distribution, North America and Latin America. She will set the strategic direction of BBC Studios’ commercial divisions…
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MTV Entertainment Studios Inks Multi-Picture Deal With Gunpowder & Sky
EXCLUSIVE: Former MTV topper Van Toffler is back in a formal relationship with the company where he spent almost three decades as an executive. MTV Entertainment Group has signed a multi-picture deal with independent studio Gunpowder & Sky, co-founded and run by Van Toffler, former CEO of Viacom Media Networks Music…
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‘No Way In Hell’: One Community, Gunpowder & Sky And Mazo Partners To Produce Chase Millsap’s Military Thriller
EXCLUSIVE: Scott Budnick’s One Community has optioned Chase Millsap and Charley Dane’s script No Way in Hell, and will produce it for film with Gunpowder & Sky and Mazo Partners.
The action thriller is inspired by the real-life experiences of Millsap, who is a veteran of both the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Army…
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Gunpowder & Sky Bolsters Non-Fiction Team With SVP Hires
EXCLUSIVE: Gunpowder & Sky, the company behind Hulu's 69: The Saga of Danny Hernandez and Discovery+'s Last Exit: Space documentaries, is expanding its non-fiction team.
The company, which has a first-look documentary deal with HBO and HBO Max, has hired Joanna Zwickel and Art Lyons.
Zwickel, who was previously Head…
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Gunpowder & Sky Doubles Down On Music Podcasts With ‘Lighters in the Sky’ & ‘Shelved’ For Amazon’s Audible
EXCLUSIVE: Gunpowder & Sky, co-founded and run by former MTV chief Van Toffler, is laying down more tracks in the music podcast space with a pair of documentary series for Audible.
The company is launching Lighters in the Sky, a series about epic concerts, and Shelved, about lost albums for the Amazon-owned audio…
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Gunpowder & Sky’s Dust Acquires Docu ‘Awaken’ Directed By Tom Lowe And Executive Produced By Terrence Malick
EXCLUSIVE: Gunpowder & Sky’s sci-fi brand Dust has acquired worldwide rights to the Tom Lowe-directed documentary Awaken, executive produced by Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life) and Godfrey Reggio (Koyaanisqatsi). Awaken is set to debut April 9 on Apple TV, Amazon and all other major VOD platforms.
Narrated by The Lor…
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Gunpowder & Sky’s Dust Partners With Balboa Productions For Sci-Fi Sports Drama ‘Meshed’
EXCLUSIVE: Gunpowder & Sky’s sci-fi arm Dust has teamed with Sylvester Stallone and Braden Aftergood’s Balboa Productions to develop the sci-fi sports drama series Meshed based on the short story by the same name by Rich Larson. Edward Ricourt (Jessica Jones, Wayward Pines, Raising Dion) is on board to adapt.
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Gunpowder & Sky’s Dust Developing ‘The Island Of Dr. Moreau’ TV Series, ‘X-Men: First Class’ Scribe Zack Stentz To Write
Gunpowder & Sky's sci-fi label Dust is developing a modern take on the classic H.G. Wells novel The Island of Dr. Moreau. The series will be titled Moreau and will be written by Zack Stentz (X-Men: First Class, Thor, Rim Of The World, Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles).
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Gunpowder & Sky’s Dust, John Davis, Black Label Media Developing Feature Based On Korean Short ‘Time Agent’, ‘John Wick’s Derek Kolstad To Write
Gunpowder & Sky's sci-fi label Dust is teaming with producer John Davis (Predator franchise, the upcoming Jungle Cruise) and Black Label Media (La La Land, Sicario) to develop time-hopping action pic Time Agent. John Wick scribe Derek Kolstad is set to write the feature based on the Korean short film The Time…
Gunpowder & Sky Nabs Worldwide Rights To Mandalay Sports Media’s Ultimate Fighting Championship Documentary
Independent studio Gunpowder & Sky has acquired worldwide rights to UFC 1: Origins of the Octagon, a documentary from Mandalay Sports Media that traces the roots of the pro MMA league to its tumultuous first event in 1993. The Ultimate Fighting Championship film will get a fall release.
"We’re thrilled to be working…
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By Greg Evans
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