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EXCLUSIVE: Random House, a division of Penguin Random House, has partnered with the management and creative content platform Sugar23 to establish the co-branded publishing imprint, Sugar23 Books. The new imprint will publish culturally relevant works of fiction and nonfiction by provocative and original voices…

EXCLUSIVE: Sugar23 has signed multi-hyphenate Rachel Bloom. Bloom is an Emmy winner best known as the co-creator and star of The CW's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. She is currently in production on Steve Levitan's Hulu comedy series Reboot, and it was most recently announced that she will star in Bar Fight, a comedy from…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Sugar's Sugar23, which is behind scripted series including Dickinson and 13 Reasons Why, is ramping up its unscripted business with a partnership with Moonshiners producer Magilla Entertainment. The two companies have teamed up to develop a slate of non-scripted series, across the genre. They are…

EXCLUSIVE: Manager and Oscar-winning producer Michael Sugar’s Sugar 23 has inked Sex and the City bestselling author Candace Bushnell. Bushnell is fresh off the run of her new one-woman show Is There Still Sex in the City? which she wrote and performs. The show, a New York Times critics’ pick, begins a tour this…

EXCLUSIVE: Sugar23 has optioned the rights to author Jean Meltzer's first novel, The Matzah Ball, with plans to develop as a feature film. Sugar23 will produce along with Lance Bass Productions, Brett Gursky and Ben Savage. Michael Sugar, Sugar 23's Ashley Zalta and Bass will serve as producers. Meltzer, Gursky, Lance…

EXCLUSIVE: Sugar23 has signed multi-hyphenate entertainer Rudy Mancuso. He joins a roster of top Sugar23 talent that includes Keanu Reeves, Steven Soderbergh, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Diane Lane, Jeremy Strong, Josh Gad and Sarah Cooper. A self-taught musician, Mancuso has released five singles, opened for Justin Bieber in…

EXCLUSIVE: Sugar23 and ACE Content have come aboard Jared Drake & Steven Siig’s award-winning documentary Buried as executive producers, with Rocket Science signing on to handle domestic and international sales. The film follows a California community’s effort to heal, after being confronted with a shared trauma on…

EXCLUSIVE: Sugar23 has signed actor, comedian, and best-selling author Sarah Cooper. Cooper, who is represented by Sugar23's Meredith Wechter and Anna Weinstein joins a roster of top talent that includes Keanu Reeves, Steven Soderbergh, Diane Lane, Jeremy Strong and Josh Gad. Cooper's books How To Be Successful Without…

EXCLUSIVE: A little more than a year after teaming up with experiential firm Blue Revolver on technology for virtual events, Michael Sugar’s Sugar23 has bought a stake in the company. Terms of the investment were not disclosed. Principals in the deal told Deadline it is intended to help deliver more multi-faceted and…

Time Studios has partnered with Sugar23, the management and creative platform from Oscar winner Michael Sugar, to launch a joint scripted division focused on developing and producing scripted projects for film and TV. For the Emmy-winning documentary and immersive division of global media brand Time, the partnership…

Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, has acquired North American rights to This Is Not a Pity Memoir, the first book by award-winning screenwriter and playwright Abi Morgan. The book, part of collaboration with the publishing arm of Michael Sugar's Sugar23, is set to be published June 2022. "We've…

TIME Studios, Trevor Noah‘s Day Zero Productions, Sugar23 and P&G Studios are teaming on the new docuseries The Tipping Point, which explores the rapidly shifting developments across our culture that are promising to reshape our world. So much seems at stake right now: voting rights, civil rights, human rights…