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Ross Katz has been hired as Head of Production and Development at SK Global’s Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, the latest exec to join the company that falls under the banner of SK Global. Katz, a producer on the Oscar-nominated Lost in Translation and In the Bedroom who started his career as a grip on Quentin Tarantino’s…

Fresh off her success as the all-powerful matriarch in Crazy Rich Asians, actress Michelle Yeoh and her yet-to-be-named production company have entered an overall agreement with SK Global Entertainment and its international and domestic labels, Ivanhoe Pictures and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment. SK Global president John…

Raw, producer of Sundance breakout documentary Three Identical Strangers, is partnering with Film4 and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment (SKE) on a narrative feature version of the picture. The Sundance title, about three strangers who inadvertently discover that they are identical triplets separated at birth, won the…

EXCLUSIVE: John Fusco has been hired by Sidney Kimmel Entertainment to adapt the popular children’s book PAX which the production company wrangled away after winning a bidding war last year.  The book was No. 1 on The New York Times best-selling children's book Pax from author Sara Pennypacker. It will be produced as…

Oscar nominee Stephen Rea, Colm Feore and English actress Zawe Ashton are set for Neil Jordan’s upcoming thriller The Widow from Sidney Kimmel Entertainment. The pic, which begins filming this month, also co-stars Isabelle Huppert, Chloë Grace Moretz and Maika Monroe. Written by Ray Wright, the film, set in New York…

Carla Hacken has exited as production president at indie production and finance company Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, a post she had held since March 2014 after stints at Fox and New Regency. The company said today she departed last month to pursue producing film and TV under her own banner Paper Pictures, and she will…

EXCLUSIVE: Annapurna and Amazon Studios have partnered to jointly release Mike White’s feature comedy Brad’s Status in a deal that was just sealed at Cannes. The film, which stars Ben Stiller, was co-financed by Amazon with Sidney Kimmel Entertainment. The picture will now be a co-release domestically with Annapurna…

Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, the independent film finance and production company behind this year’s Academy Award Best Picture nominee Hell or High Water, and Hong Kong-based Ivanhoe Pictures have merged to form SK Global. SKE Chairman/CEO Sidney Kimmel and Ivanhoe Pictures Chairman Robert Friedland, who will be…

EXCLUSIVE: Sidney Kimmel Entertainment just picked up the option on Gary Lennon’s play Change for producer William Horberg (The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cold Mountain, Milk). Lennon, who currently serves as executive producer and writer on Starz’s No. 1 rated series’ Power, is not only a writer, a Peabody and PGA winner…

Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Plan B Entertainment (The Big Short, 12 Years a Slave) have come aboard to finance and produce the comedy Brad’s Status, an original screenplay written by Mike White (School Of Rock) who will also direct. Ben Stiller is in final negotiations to star in the film that is set to shoot…

Sidney Kimmel Entertainment has hired Mark O'Connor as EVP Production, bringing over the veteran from his previous post as a senior exec at Todd Phillips’ Warner Bros-based Green Hat Films. The former CAA agent, whose career includes stints at Lorne Michaels' Broadway Video, 20th Century Fox and Scott Rudin…

BREAKING: Sidney Kimmel Entertainment has acquired the film rights to the No. 1 New York Times best-selling children’s book Pax from author Sara Pennypacker. SKE picked up the book after a bidding war with StudioCanal and Anonymous Content. The story about love and defining your family is about a boy who is separated…