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EXCLUSIVE: Anderson .Paak, the eight-time Grammy Award winner born Brandon Paak Anderson, will make his feature directorial debut with the dramatic comedy K-POPS! for Stampede Ventures—starring in the film alongside his son, Soul Rasheed. The film centers on a washed-up musician who travels to Korea to write for K-pop…

EXCLUSIVE: Biotech entrepreneur Jonathan Lim, M.D. is moving into the realm of film production and financing with the launch of City Hill Arts. Lim’s start-up will acquire IP, develop, package, produce and fund projects, while investing in those that meet its criteria, via exceptional writing, talent and…

EXCLUSIVE: Stampede Ventures has acquired the rights to Nick Schenk’s action spec script Galahad, and is beginning to package it as a film, eyeing A-list directors for the first feature in a potential new franchise. The film will follow a badass ex-American special forces soldier who goes on a berserker…

EXCLUSIVE: Stampede Ventures has acquired the rights to Brandon Constantine’s spec script, Lady Krylon, in a competitive situation, tapping Grant Torre and Reed Simmons to shepherd its development for film, and to lock in a director. The film is a New York-set romance that sees the lives of a prodigal graffiti artist…

EXCLUSIVE: Kal Penn (Designated Survivor, Harold & Kumar franchise) has signed on to produce and star in Stampede Ventures’ biopic Superfan, which will tell the story of Nav Bhatia, a decades long follower of the Toronto Raptors, who last year became the first fan inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall Of…

Last Tango In Paris is getting its own The Offer-style making of drama series. The tumultuous events surrounding the making of the 1972 erotic drama, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider, is to be turned into a television series by CBS Studios and Stampede Ventures. The series…

Stampede Ventures and UTA today announced the launch of HappyNest, an indie animation production company that will create content geared toward kids and families, naming Sadaf Cohen Muncy as its Head of Development and Production. HappyNest will draw on the strength of UTA’s animation division—which represents a…

EXCLUSIVE: Greg Silverman and Jon Berg of Stampede Ventures have snapped up rights to screenwriter Umair Aleem's new action-adventure spec script The Paladin, which is being eyed as a franchise-starter, unfolding into a much larger, expansive universe. Billed as Doctor Strange meets Unforgiven, The Paladin centers on…

EXCLUSIVE: Stampede Ventures has signed Alysia Reiner (Better Things , Orange is the New Black), Mimi Kennedy (Mom) and Miranda Rae Mayo (Chicago Fire) to its Max Chernov dark comedy Going Places.  Cameras started rolling on June 7. After covering up a hit and run on the way to their valedictory desert getaway, three…

EXCLUSIVE: Annabel Abbs' period cookery novel Miss Eliza's English Kitchen is set for a television adaptation after CBS Studios and Stampede Ventures optioned the rights. The two companies struck a deal for the screen rights to the book, which is being published by William Morrow and Simon & Schuster UK. It is the…

EXCLUSIVE: Stampede Ventures is developing a television series based on short film Autonomous, a cyberpunk sci-fi project from director Joe Sill and writer Matisse Tolin. Jon Berg and Greg Silverman of Stampede Ventures are producing the project, which recently debuted on Short of the Week and was picked up by genre…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Greg Silverman and Jon Berg of Stampede Ventures have optioned the rights to screenwriter Ward Parry's spec script, Mr. Croup. Matthew George's Savvy Media Holdings, whose credits include Wind River and A Private War, will produce the film alongside former Warner Bros execs Berg…