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Dan Levy Signs Netflix Film & TV Deal, Will Star In And Direct Romantic Comedy Feature
A year after winning four Primetime Emmys for the hit comedy series Schitt’s Creek, Dan Levy has closed a first look feature deal and an overall one in scripted content with Netflix, under which he’ll write and produce.
Levy's work in film will begin promptly with an original untitled romantic comedy which he’ll…
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Elisabeth Murdoch-Backed Sister Posts $7.7M Loss Amid Coronavirus Crisis & Expansion Efforts
EXCLUSIVE: Sister, the media co-venture owned by Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider, and Jane Featherstone, has posted a loss of $7.7M in its first 18 months of trading, during which it expanded its investment empire and was hit by the coronavirus production shutdown.
The producer behind Emmy-winning Chernobyl and…
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Sister’s Elisabeth Murdoch Bankrolls Zando, Publishing Venture Hatched By Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ Editor Molly Stern
Molly Stern, the former Crown publisher whose successes include the Michelle Obama memoir Becoming, Gone Girl and others, has launched a new publishing imprint. Zando will be backed by Sister, the studio launched in 2019 by Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider and Jane Featherstone. Zando will collaborate with influential…
Sister Taps Kate Fenske As Chief Creative Executive
Sister, the global production and development company founded by Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider and Jane Featherstone, has hired veteran TV executive Kate Fenske as Chief Creative Executive.
Fenske, most recently President of Production for Entertainment 360, marks Sister’s first major hire out of Los Angeles where…
‘The Two Popes’ Scribe Anthony McCarten In Bee Gees Pic Talks
EXCLUSIVE: Anthony McCarten is in talks to write the script for the Bee Gees movie that Paramount Pictures is making with producer-financier Sister, Bohemian Rhapsody producer Graham King’s GK Films, and Amblin Partners. The Oscar-nominated McCarten most recently scripted the upcoming Netflix film The Two Popes, the…
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Paramount, Sister, Graham King Team For Bee Gees Biopic
EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is teaming with upstart producer-financier Sister and Bohemian Rhapsody producer Graham King to mount a movie about the Bee Gees, the trio whose worldwide sales of more than 220 million records established them as one of the biggest-selling groups of all time. While Barry, Robin and Mauric…
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Stacey Snider Joins Elisabeth Murdoch & ‘Chernobyl’ EP Jane Featherstone In Sister, Global Indie Film & TV Content Producer
Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider and Jane Featherstone have joined forces to form Sister, an ambitious content creation venture designed to develop and produce television and film projects with global appeal. Murdoch, the former Shine Group founder/chairman, will be the lead financier in the venture. She said Snider…
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Stacey Snider Next Move To Form New Company Under Elisabeth Murdoch?
While she has been rumored to be in play on several big jobs that would put her atop a studio or streaming service, Stacey Snider’s next move after leaving the 20th Century Fox Film chairman/CEO post is likely to be to start a production venture backed by Elisabeth Murdoch.
Snider has the background to run a big…
Disney Finalizes Film Studio Brass Under Alan Horn: Emma Watts Confirmed To Run Fox
As expected, 20th Century Fox Vice Chairman Emma Watts will continue leading the studio once it is absorbed by The Walt Disney Company. She’ll report directly to Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn in a structure that Disney unveiled Thursday.
Joining Watts, as Deadline previously reported, in the new Disney…
Disney-Fox Film Structure Coming Next: Alan Horn Atop Divisions, Streaming Big Priority
Now that Disney has set the hierarchy of Fox TV executives who’ll be part of the merged entities, next comes the film division. Sources said there shouldn’t be much surprise when an announcement is made as early as later this week.
Alan Horn, the veteran exec who was unceremoniously pushed out at Warner Bros and then…
Fox Searchlight Ups Nancy Utley And Steve Gilula To Chairman Roles In Multi-Year Contract Extension
Following a strong year that culminated in a Best Picture Oscar win for The Shape of Water, Fox Searchlight heads Steve Gilula and Nancy Utley have each been upped to the role of chairman of the specialty unit.
The promotions are accompanied by multi-year extensions of the pair’s contracts, according to an…
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‘Sleepless In Seattle’ Hits 25: Producer Gary Foster Narrates Evolution From Spec Script To Seminal Romantic Comedy
The Nora Ephron-directed romantic comedy Sleepless in Seattle turns 25 today. For Gary Foster, who first read the cross-country romantic comedy as a Jeff Arch spec script and fought for three years to keep its vision intact in the usual creative collisions of star-driven studio films, here provides an illuminating…
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