A second group of filmmakers have petitioned WarnerMedia to reconsider its decision to shutter FilmStruck at month’s end. Here is . the second letter

To whom it may concern at Turner and Warner Bros. Digital Networks:

Roger Ebert once said "the movies are like a machine that generates empathy. It lets you understand a…

EXCLUSIVE: It was a musical, until it was a crime. Orion Pictures is financing a feature about Chicago inmates who escape prison through producing a musical play. Commercial director Adam Hashemi will make his feature film directorial debut on Songs of the Damned and award-winning music producer Mark Ronson will…

EXCLUSIVE: Anonymous Content has acquired screen rights to Foe, the upcoming thriller novel by Iain Reid which drew other bids. Reid’s previous novel I’m Thinking Of Ending Things is in the works at Netflix with Charlie Kaufman attached to direct and write. Anonymous Content’s Kerry Kohansky-Roberts and Steve Golin…

EXCLUSIVE: In one of the most intriguing developments to hit the UK industry in quite a while, I can reveal that US management and production powerhouse Anonymous Content has teamed up with leading UK talent agencies Casarotto Ramsay and United Agents to form a film and TV production house in Blighty called Chapter…

EXCLUSIVE: Anonymous Content is going all in on the series of thriller novels by Lars Kepler, the pseudonym for the married Swedish authors Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril, and Alexander Ahndoril. Anonymous Content has optioned the books and will start with both a film adaptation of The Sandman which Kepler and Niclas Salomo…

Anonymous Content has appointed Matthew Velkes to the post of Chief Operating Officer, responsible for overseeing strategic elements of the company's growth. He will work closely with the partners of the production/management company and repor to founder and CEO Steve Golin.

Velkes spent the last decade at Village Road…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Sugar, longtime manager-producer at Anonymous Content, has formed Sugar23, a producing shingle that launches with a multi-year first-look deal with Anonymous Content. The deal allows for Sugar’s growing producing ambitions while keeping him in the AC fold. Sugar, the Oscar-winning producer of Spotlig…

EXCLUSIVE: Longtime UTA partners and book department co-heads Howie Sanders and Kassie Evashevski are leaving the agency. They are moving to the Anonymous Content, where they will transition to producer/managers and establish a dedicated literary rights division. Agency staff is being told right now.

Sanders has been a…

Steve Golin’s Anonymous Content has found its new partner. The management/production company will align with Emerson Collective, the organization led by Laurene Powell Jobs, wife of the late Apple giant Steve Jobs. More to come, but this is a surprising new direction for the company that won Best Picture with Spotlight…

EXCLUSIVE: Coming off its Best Picture Oscar win for Spotlight, Best Picture nomination for The Revenant and Golden Globe win for Mr. Robot, Steve Golin’s Anonymous Content is now earnestly moving toward shopping itself for what will likely be a minority stake in the company. Guggenheim is shopping it, and I’ve heard…

EXCLUSIVE: Max Burkholder has been set as the lead in the Hulu pilot When The Street Lights Go On. The project is adapted from the Black List feature script by writers Chris Hutton and Eddie O'Keefe. Production is scheduled to begin in mid-April in Atlanta.

In the vein of Stand by Me, When the Street Lights Go On is a…

With advance word of well-received showings in Venice and Telluride, the audience for Spotlight at the Toronto International Film Festival was in full anticipation mode. After seeing director Tom McCarthy's extraordinary handling of the story about The Boston Globe's investigation into child abuse within the Catholic…