MRC Film has created a new label devoted to female comedies, which will be led by Becky Sloviter, the producer of Palm Springs, which sold to NEON and Hulu in a record deal at Sundance for $17.5M.
Already, the unnamed division has two projects in development: Let’s Have Kids!, which will serve as the directorial debut…
EXCLUSIVE: Documentary filmmaker Alex Holmes is going from the world of boat racing in his critically acclaimed pic Maiden to the world of cycling with Last Rider, which chronicles the story of Greg LeMond. The director will team with MRC Non-Fiction for the production. James Erskine and Victoria Gregory are set to…
When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn't about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that mysteri…
Rian Johnson’s Lionsgate/MRC whodunit Knives Outhas sailed past the $300M mark worldwide. It’s the latest milestone for the box office anomaly that is becoming the second-highest-grossing original movie of 2019 behind Us and also whipping Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’s $142.4M stateside.
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EXCLUSIVE:MRC Film and The Story Company are developing The Blackening, a feature film adaptation of a Comedy Central digital short that lampooned horror film tropes with its tale of seven African-American friends trapped in a cabin with a homicidal maniac.
Writers Tracy Oliver(Girl Trip, First Wives Club) and…
The Rideback TV Incubator, the inclusion-focused writers program launched last year by Dan Lin's Rideback and MRC, will begin taking applications next month for its sophomore session.
The incubator, whose core mission is to creatively and financially support writers from different backgrounds as they create their own…
In one of MRC’s biggest IP acquisitions to date, the independent film and television studio has secured film, television, live stage and related ancillary rights to, Eloise, the beloved series of children's books written by Kay Thompson and illustrated by Hilary Knight.
MRC will work closely with UK-based HandMade…
MRC Film said today that Robyn Marshall has joined as Senior Vice President. She will oversee films from inception through release, including helping to manage the process from development through post production.
"Robyn brings deep producorial experience and incredible story instincts that will be invaluable as we…
“I think you have something you want to tell me.”
Here’s the new trailer for Knives Out, writer-director Rian Johnson’s cinematic love letter to Agatha Christie. Daniel Craig stars as the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc, who mysteriously is enlisted to ferret out a killer.
The thickening plot: Harlan…
MRC Television, the studio behind Netflix’s House of Cards and Ozark and Starz’s Counterpart, said Monday that it has promoted Jennifer Watson to EVP Production. She will continue to oversee all physical TV production for the company and report to MRC TV president Elise Henderson.
Watson joined MRC TV in June 2018 as…
EXCLUSIVE: Starz’s SVP Original Programming Ken Segna has left the pay cable network to join MRC Television as EVP and Head of Development. Reporting to President Elise Henderson, he will shepherd the indie studio's slate of development, working closely with creators and producers.
This marks the highest-profile hire…
EXCLUSIVE: Peter Johnson will be departing MRC where he served as President of Television development for the past two years. He is leaving to pursue other opportunities, including producing.
Johnson’s exit follows a string of TV executive hires at MRC over the past couple of months, led by UCP's Elise Henderson joinin…
