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EXCLUSIVE: Apple Original Films has set a first-look feature deal with Nike's Waffle Iron Entertainment and Makeready, to develop and produce sports films. The companies will team up to deliver a slate of films to inspire the next generation of athletes and celebrate the power of sport. It comes at a moment when…

EXCLUSIVE: Wesley Lowery's book They Can't Kill Us All chronicles the formation of the Black Lives Matter movement and is it now being turned into a television series. AMC is developing a series adaptation of the book, which was first published in 2016, with Don Cheadle among the exec producers. The series is based on…

EXCLUSIVE: Makeready has brought in Collin Creighton to be a producing partner alongside founder Brad Weston and oversee the company's production slate. Creighton most recently served as Director of Original Studio Film at Netflix, where during his tenure he was instrumental in building out the company's original film…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios and Makeready, the production company behind stirring drama, Queen & Slim, have teamed up to develop The Jealousy Man feature based on the upcoming novel by Norwegian crime author Jo Nesbø. William Oldroyd has been tapped to direct the adaptation. He is best known for directing the 2016 TIFF…

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran development executive and producer Peter Johnson has joined Makeready, Brad Weston’s independent studio and financier for film, television and branded content, as head of television. Johnson, who recently departed MRC after a two-year stint as President of Television Development, succeeds Scott…

EXCLUSIVE: Makeready has locked a non-exclusive two-year deal with Hiro Murai, the visionary, disruptive director hailed for his collaborations with Donald Glover that so far encompass the FX series Atlanta, the provocative music video for “This Is America,” and the Amazon musical Guava Island, which Glover starred in…

EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Lawrence has launched a new production company, Excellent Cadaver, and she has made a first-look film deal with Makeready where she and producing partner Justine Polsky will develop movie projects and star vehicles for the Oscar-winning actress. Makeready and Excellent Cadaver will produce them…

A Million Little Pieces is as raw, bloody and messy as James Frey wrote it. With the startling intensity he shocked Toronto with in Nocturnal Animals two years ago, Aaron Taylor-Johnson plays Frey through his evolution from a hopeless, cornered animal descending down a drug-induced death spiral to someone who pulls…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA just signed best-selling author James Frey. This comes as Brad Weston’s Makeready and The Picture Company prepare to launch A Million Little Pieces, the screen version of the semi-autobiographical and controversial addiction novel that was adapted into a feature by Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Sam Taylor-Joh…

In a very competitive situation, Brad Weston’s Makeready has landed the rights to Gregg Hurwitz’s bestselling Orphan X book series with plans to adapt the thrillers into a TV series along with Justin Lin’s Perfect Storm Entertainment. Hurwitz, who penned 2017’s The Book of Henry directed by Colin Trevorrow, is set to…

After a five-year run as New Regency president and CEO that garnered two Best Picture winners—12 Years a Slave and Birdman—and nearly a third—The Revenant—Brad Weston left to form Makeready with funding from eOne and distribution through Universal Pictures. And the game plan, he says, was to go beyond the traditional…