EXCLUSIVE:OddLot Entertainment has acquired feature film rights to Code Of Silence, a four-part article from The Intercept journalist Jamie Kalven. The 2016 series is based on the true story of Chicago police officer Shannon Spaulding and her experience as a whistleblower in a corruption and cover-up case within the…
EXCLUSIVE:OddLot Entertainment has promoted Rachel Shane to chief creative officer and hired former Focus Features and FilmDistrict exec Adrian Alperovich as COO. The news comes as Madison Wells Media’s OddLot is coming off an Oscar Best Picture nomination for Hell Or High Water on the film side and its new anthology…
In film and television, it’s common to see characters at various ages and stages of their lives, portrayed by different actors—but, in the vein of Barry Jenkin’s Moonlight, it’s much less common to see multiple iterations of a character, each as fully realized as the next. Such is certainly the case with National Geogr…
EXCLUSIVE: OddLot Entertainment has acquired screen rights to the bestselling Ali Benjamin YA novel The Thing About Jellyfish. OddLot principal Gigi Pritzker will produce with Bruna Papandrea and Reese Witherspoon. Rachel Shane will be executive producer. The script will be written by Molly Smith Metzler, making her…
When it comes to mounting quintessential auterish independent films on the big screen today, chances are that OddLot Entertainment is there. The company co-founded by Gigi Pritzker has produced and co-financed such titles as this year’s awards season contender Hell or High Water, Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive and this…
EXCLUSIVE: Mark Romanek has been set to direct Septillion to One, the romantic comedy spec script by Adam R. Perlman and Graham Sack that is being made by STX Entertainment and OddLot Entertainment, the latter of which is financing. An overzealous former FBI agent who has been relegated to the fraud unit of the Texas…
EXCLUSIVE: OddLot Entertainment is continuing to bolster its executive ranks as it ramps up operations, promoting Rachel Shane to president of production and development and Natalya Petrosova to CFO and head of operations. The moves come as the full-service production and financing outfit readies its Cannes-debuting…
OddLot Entertainment has acquired rights to Septillion To One, a romantic comedy spec script by Adam R. Perlman and Graham Sack. It will be fast-tracked and financed by OddLot. The logline: an over-zealous former FBI agent who has been relegated to the fraud unit of the Texas State Lottery begins investigating a…
Jonathan Kier has been promoted to president of sales and distribution for independent film finance, production and sales company Sierra/Affinity, up from EVP of sales. He will continue to work with Sierra principals Nick Meyer, Marc Schaberg and Marc Butan on international sales of the company’s slate of third-party…
Los Angeles, CA February 20, 2014 – Designed to provide an increased physical production capacity and related filmed entertainment ventures, OddLot Entertainment confirmed today that it has closed a $50 million revolving credit facility with J.P. Morgan and Comerica as co-lead arrangers which may be increase up to…
EXCLUSIVE: OddLot Entertainment has acquired the Black List script Queen Of Hearts, and has set Seth Gordon to develop the project as a directing vehicle. OddLot will produce with Brillstein Entertainment Group, with Gordon’s manager David McIlvain to be one of the producers. It’s the first script by Stephanie…
