EXCLUSIVE: Scott Free Films and New Sparta Films will team on Neither Confirm Nor Deny, the true story of the CIA secret mission to recover a nuclear Soviet submarine three miles under the Pacific Ocean. The companies have just acquired the David H. Sharp book The CIA’s Greatest Covert Operation. At the height of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Ridley Scott has promoted Michael Pruss to Executive Vice President of his L.A.-based production company Scott Free. This comes less than three weeks after he set Manchester by the Sea producer Kevin Walsh to become company president. The move reinforces Pruss’ position at the Fox-based company. He produced…

EXCLUSIVE: Ridley Scott has hired veteran producer Kevin Walsh as new president of his Scott Free Films banner. Walsh, who is riding high as producer of the Kenneth Lonergan-directed Manchester By The Sea, has been readying the Michael Gracey-directed P.T. Barnum Fox musical The Greatest Showman, on which he is…