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EXCLUSIVE: Events are being completely redefined during COVID-19, with the word “virtual” becoming the driving concept at a time when physical gatherings are not possible. Navigating this 2020 landscape, Michael Sugar’s Sugar23 has teamed up with experiential agency Blue Revolver to bring to market new virtual event…

EXCLUSIVE: Sugar23 and Short of The Week have teamed up to launch the online charitable film series “Shelter Shorts” which will support World Central Kitchen's COVID-19 relief efforts. The initiative, which starts today, features short films by filmmakers shot inside their homes. Because of this, they tested their…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Sugar’s Sugar23 is expanding into unscripted programming, launching a new Alternative & Unscripted division, headed by veteran Lifetime reality executive David Hillman. "Not only are we thrilled to announce the creation of our Alternative & Unscripted division here at Sugar23, but are honored to…

Michael Sugar's Sugar23 and advertising and representation agency DMA United are partnering with Nelson Mandela's family to launch Mandela Media to develop long and short-form content under the Mandela Media banner. The partnership also will be responsible for production, branding and initiatives pertaining to…

EXCLUSIVE: In competitive bidding, Netflix and Sugar23 landed feature rights to Erica Katz's upcoming book The Boys' Club. Sugar23’s Michael Sugar and Ashley Zalta will develop a film based on a book that will be published by the HarperCollins imprint Harper in summer 2020. The Boys' Club follows first-year female…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has made a multi-year first-look feature film deal with Sugar23, the company founded by Oscar-winning Spotlight producer and manager Michael Sugar. He and Sugar23's Head of Production Ashley Zalta will make Netflix their creative home, with the streamer getting first crack at any feature film the…

EXCLUSIVE: Bachelorette and Sleeping With Other People writer-director Leslye Headland will adapt and direct the movie thriller Tell Me Everything for Netflix, Sugar23 and Anonymous Content. Netflix preemptively swooped on screen rights to the project earlier this year. It’s based on Cambria Brockman’s debut novel…

EXCLUSIVE: Sugar23, the production venture founded by Oscar-winning Spotlight producer Michael Sugar, has launched a brand incubator and investment division. Kristin Patrick, the former chief marketing officer of PepsiCo, has been hired to run Sugar23 Global. Patrick will spearhead plans to incubate and launch new…

Paramount Television, Anonymous Content and Sugar23 have optioned the rights to Shari Lapena’s bestselling thriller novel The Couple Next Door to develop as a television series. Written by playwright/TV writer Lila Feinberg (Younger) based on the book, the potential series will follow three couples, living in the same…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has preemptively acquired film rights to Tell Me Everything, an upcoming thriller novel from Cambria Brockman. Michael Sugar’s company Sugar23 brought in the project and will produce the adaptation with Anonymous Content and Aevitas Creative Management. Brockman’s debut novel, which Ballantine…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has won the bidding battle to option rights to Final Girls, the bestselling novel from Riley Sager that hit shelves this summer. The movie adaptation will be produced by Anonymous Content's Nicole Clemens along with Sugar23's Ashley Zalta and Michael Sugar as that stand-alone company…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Sugar has named Ashley Zalta to be head of production at Sugar23, the production company he recently formed with a multi-year first-look deal with Anonymous Content. Zalta has been Sugar’s longtime production executive and collaborator at Anonymous Content. "Ashley has been an extraordinary…