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EXCLUSIVE: Toronto’s Elevation Pictures has picked up North American rights to Warren Pereira’s feature documentary Tiger 24, executive produced by The Gotham Group. The film has begun a limited theatrical release which includes a week’s run at the Laemmle’s Monica Film Center (Los Angeles), starting September 30. It…

EXCLUSIVE: The Gotham Group has optioned Stephen G. Bloom’s acclaimed nonfiction book The Audacity of Inez Burns, for development as a television/streaming series. Published by Regan Arts in 2018, The Audacity of Inez Burns tells the story of Burns, an underground abortion provider and socialite in San Francisco in…

Key and Peele‘s Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are reteaming as part of the cast of Wendell & Wild, a new animated film that Oscar nominee Henry Selick (Coraline) is directing for Netflix, which will also star Lyric Ross (This Is Us), Angela Bassett (Black Panther), James Hong (Kung Fu Panda), Tamara Smart (A Baby…

EXCLUSIVE: The Gotham Group has launched an NFT-focused Emerging Technologies department, with the Hollywood management and production company tapping longtime manager Matt Shichtman to run it, while elevating him to partner. The division already has a first project, with production underway on the adult animated…

EXCLUSIVE: 20th Television has optioned Steve Almond’s forthcoming novel All the Secrets of the World to adapt as a television series. The Gotham Group, which is under a first-look deal at 20th, would produce, and Jon Feldman (Monarch, Designated Survivor) will pen the adaptation and serve as showrunner. 20th…

EXCLUSIVE: The Gotham Group has optioned Catherine Raven’s New York Times bestselling memoir Fox & I: An Uncommon Friendship for film. The debut book from the newly-launched Spiegel & Grau, released on July 6, watches as an unexpected friendship blossoms between a solitary woman and a wild fox. A self-described misfit…

Laurane “LaLa” Sheehan, the actor-turned-corporate entertainment publicist and events planner who had worked at Maggie Begley Communications for 30 years, died November 11 of a sudden heart attack. She was 61. Sheehan was a Senior Accounts Supervisor at entertainment marketing and PR firm MBC, working with clients…

Less than a month before opiate crisis miniseries Dopesick is scheduled to launch on Hulu, writer and Empire co-creator Danny Strong has been sued over commissions by his former management group. Represented by Hollywood heavyweight lawyer Patricia L. Glaser, The Gotham Group is seeking a court declaration that their…

EXCLUSIVE: The Gotham Group has signed Indian director, writer and producer Pan Nalin, whose latest feature Last Film Show was well-received at Tribeca this year. The pic – an homage to cinema as seen through the eyes of a young Indian boy – debuted at the fest and became the first foreign-language film to be named…

EXCLUSIVE: The Gotham Group has partnered with MakeSay to produce a film adaptation of Michael Leinbach and Jonathan Ward's book, Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew. The book and upcoming film are said to tell “the definitive inside story” of the Space Shuttle Columbia…

The Gotham Group announced today it has signed model, writer, director and transgender advocate Geena Rocero. Rocero is currently directing and executive producing the four-part original documentary series Caretakers, a partnership with the WNET Group's Chasing the Dream multi-platform reporting initiative. Caretakers…

EXCLUSIVE: CEO and Founder Ellen Goldsmith-Vein of The Gotham Group has announced a trio of promotions. Nick McCabe, who was previously a coordinator working under partner and head of literary Lindsay Williams, and Thuan Dang, a former assistant to Gotham partner Peter McHugh, are being upped to managers, while Eitan…