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TriStar Lands Colin Bannon Survival Thriller Spec Script ‘Ultra’

EXCLUSIVE: The shocking success of Squid Game has created an appetite for survival projects. Tristar Pictures just preemptively acquired Ultra, a survival thriller spec script by Colin Bannon. Sugar 23’s Sukee Chew is producing. They are keeping the details under wraps, and Bannon wrote this well before Squid Game…

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Sukee Chew, Anna Weinstein And Alex Creasia Join Sugar23 As Managers

Michael Sugar’s Sugar23 continues to grow as the management firm has hired Sukee Chew, Anna Weinstein and Alex Creasia. Chew comes to Sugar23 a seasoned industry veteran with 20 years of experience as a producer and an arsenal of talented screenwriters and filmmakers on her roster. She had previously set up three…

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Netflix Wins ‘First Ascent;’ Avid Mountain Climber Jake Scott To Direct Colin Bannon’s Black List Genre Spec

EXCLUSIVE: In a last fevered auction before the holidays, Netflix prevailed and paid high six figures for First Ascent, a genre script by Colin Bannon with a female lead set in the world of mountain climbing. The project injects a genre element to a dangerous sport and was likened to The Shining meets Free Solo. Jake S…