EXCLUSIVE: The Firm is making changes after its founder Jeff Kwatinetz exited the company to go work with attorney Mark Geragos and concentrate on his other companies with Ice Cube. Three lower-level employees were laid off as well as Kevin McKeon, who was Head of Film Robbie Brenner’s No. 2 exec. The company also is…

EXCLUSIVE: Jeff Kwatinetz, who went to Harvard Law School and graduated near the top of his class, is leaving The Firm as CEO after relaunching the company two years ago. He will now move into the law firm of Geragos & Geragos to practice civil rights litigation, though he will remain actively involved in CubeVision…

EXCLUSIVE: The Firm has acquired the rights to Elaine Brown's 1992 memoir, A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story about the first (and only) woman to lead the Black Panther Party. Brown led the party from 1974 to 1977 while co-founder Huey Newton was in exile in Cuba. Newton founded the party with Bobby Seale in 1966…

EXCLUSIVE: A new TV series is being developed, loosely based on the life of famed criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos. The production/management company The Firm’s Jeff Kwatinetz and entertainment lawyer Kenny Meiselas have acquired the rights to produce the TV series. This comes after the three men worked together…

Jeff Kwatinetz is making a change at top of the TV division of of his production company The Firm. About three months after Disney Channel and Disney XD executive Corey Marsh was brought in as EVP Television, he is being replaced by Priscilla Crowe, who is being elevated to EVP and will head up TV operations for the…

The Firm has hired Disney Channel and Disney XD executive Corey Marsh as EVP Television. He joins a division whose credits include USA Network’s Royal Pains, WGN America’s Salem, ABC’s Notorious, Netflix’s Haters Back Off and VH1’s Hip Hop Squares which was just renewed for a second season. Marsh will work with VP…

EXCLUSIVE: The Firm has just picked up the untitled Big Pharma/Whistleblower, a corporate thriller from screenwriters Hayley Schore and Roshan Sethi. The ensemble piece tells intersecting stories surrounding a new controversial behavioral drug being willfully peddled to inner city families while a scrappy, driven…

EXCLUSIVE: As the film prepares to go into production, principal cast has been set for The Firm’s drama Burden, with Garrett Hedlund in the title role joined by Oscar winner Forest Whitaker, Oscar nominees Tom Wilkinson and Tess Harper and Hands of Stone‘s Usher Raymond IV. Written and directed by Andrew Heckler and…

EXCLUSIVE: Justin Chadwick is making a deal to direct the untitled film about the landmark Signal Hill police brutality case in 1981 that has Anthony Mackie playing attorney Johnnie Cochran. The script is by David McMillan, and the film is backed by The Firm. Mackie and Jason Spire will produce with Robbie Brenner…

PepsiCo’s Creators League, the brand’s in-house content development division, has opened a new New York City studio and with it unveiled collaborations including a film with Hollywood management and production company The Firm and rapper Tip "T.I." Harris, as well as AOL's Partner Studios. As part of the content push…

EXCLUSIVE: Suspected 60s radical Angela Davis is getting biopic treatment. Jeff Kwatinetz’s The Firm has acquired an untitled script by Shameless scribe LaToya Morgan that Firm film division president Robbie Brenner will produce with Kwatinetz and Kevin McKeon. Davis, accused of conspiracy in the murder of a federal…

HBO has put in development drama series High Rise, from Blue Valentine co-writer Cami Delavigne, Jeff Kwatinetz’s The Firm and The Weinstein Company. Written by Delavigne, High Rise is a character drama set in the world of high end New York architecture that follows a brilliant, but struggling architect who gets…