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EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has made a multi-year first-look feature film deal with Sugar23, the company founded by Oscar-winning Spotlight producer and manager Michael Sugar. He and Sugar23's Head of Production Ashley Zalta will make Netflix their creative home, with the streamer getting first crack at any feature film the…

EXCLUSIVE: Sugar23, the production venture founded by Oscar-winning Spotlight producer Michael Sugar, has launched a brand incubator and investment division. Kristin Patrick, the former chief marketing officer of PepsiCo, has been hired to run Sugar23 Global. Patrick will spearhead plans to incubate and launch new…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Sugar has named Ashley Zalta to be head of production at Sugar23, the production company he recently formed with a multi-year first-look deal with Anonymous Content. Zalta has been Sugar’s longtime production executive and collaborator at Anonymous Content. "Ashley has been an extraordinary…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Sugar, longtime manager-producer at Anonymous Content, has formed Sugar23, a producing shingle that launches with a multi-year first-look deal with Anonymous Content. The deal allows for Sugar’s growing producing ambitions while keeping him in the AC fold. Sugar, the Oscar-winning producer of Spotlig…

EXCLUSIVE: Finding Dory scribe Victoria Strouse has been tapped by Fox 2000 to adapt the nonfiction Katherine Sharp Landdeck book The Women With Silver Wings, which Tony-winning Hamilton director Thomas Kail is developing to direct. The studio last April teamed with Anonymous Content and Old 320 Sycamore to secure the…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures has optioned movie rights to the Action Lab Comics series Princeless. Created by Jeremy Whitley and Emily Martin, the series follows a young black princess who, instead of waiting for a prince to save her, takes matters into her own hands. She breaks out of her tower, befriends the dragon…

EXCLUSIVE: Anonymous Content optioned both life rights and a book written by Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, the pediatrician whose groundbreaking research revealed that an entire generation of children were exposed to unsafe levels of lead in Flint, Michigan. The feature film will be written and directed by Cherien Dabis…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox 2000 might have found itself another Hidden Figures, optioning the nonfiction Katherine Sharp Landdeck book The Women With Silver Wings. The studio has teamed with Anonymous Content and Old 320 Sycamore to turn it into the feature drama Silver Wings. Tony-winning Hamilton director Thomas Kail will…

In a very competitive situation, Anonymous Content has landed the rights to Sleeping Beauties, the upcoming supernatural/suspense novel by horror master Stephen King and his son, Owen King. Anonymous will be partnering with the Kings to develop Sleeping Beauties as a TV series. Set for a September release by Simon…

EXCLUSIVE: Anonymous Content and Campanario Entertainment have teamed to acquire rights to the Federico Axat novel Kill The Next One, and they have set Craig Rosenberg to write the script. First published to acclaim in Spanish as La Ultima Salida, the book now is rolling out around the world in 30 languages, mostly…

Paramount TV and Anonymous Content have optioned the rights to the Battlefield video game property to adapt as a TV series. Developed by EA DICE and published by Electronic Arts, Battlefield delivers an all-out war experience on land, sea and air, a single player campaign that drops gamers behind enemy lines with a…

Just moments before Spotlight producer Michael Sugar gave an impassioned plea for the powerful exposé of rampant sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests to “resonate all the way to the Vatican,” one of the Catholic Church’s most senior figures admitted in testimony that the church had “made enormous…