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EXCLUSIVE: Todd Hoffman, who had a 13-year run as a lit agent before setting up his own shop in 2013, is expanding a tool he developed to cut through the dealmaking clutter. StoryScout is a digital offering first introduced in 2018 by Hoffman’s company, Storied Media Group. The offering is digital but also backed by…

Gold Rush creator and star Todd Hoffman has partnered with Bering Sea Gold executive producers Thom Beers and Jeff Conroy on another series set in the world of amateur gold mining, this time in the competition reality space. Hoffman and Jose Behar’s Züm Media has signed a development deal with Beers and Conroy’s new…

Tele München Group and Storied Media Group completed a second round of investment funding to continue to build SMG. The new capital allows Tele Munchen Group, which acquired a minority stake in SMG in early 2017, to continue to accelerate its growth plans in serving high-end published content to Hollywood producers…

Navid McIlhargey has joined Storied Media Group as President of Scripted & Client Partnerships. The hire was made by founder/CEO Todd Hoffman. McIlhargey will develop and set up projects for clients that include Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, NPR, Smithsonian, and The Guardian. A former exec at New Regency…

Emerging production outfit ZÜM Media has hired well-traveled media exec Zac Reeder as head of worldwide distribution. Producer Jose Behar and Todd Hoffman, creator and star of Gold Rush, Discovery Channel’s top-rated, long-running hit, recently formed ZÜM. The company, which says it has more than 20 initial projects…

EXCLUSIVE: The Washington Post has signed an exclusive deal with Storied Media Group to rep the newspaper and its trove of IP for feature films, TV and digital opportunities. It is the first time the paper has signed with an agency to rep its journalism in Hollywood. SMG will guide an emerging video strategy for the…

EXCLUSIVE: The new operation’s called Bungalow Media + Entertainment and it aims to build bridges between content creators and marketers looking for creative ways to work together in TV, film, live entertainment, and digital media. “A lot of people talk about multiple platforms, but it’s very difficult to produce a…

EXCLUSIVE: Todd Hoffman, who at ICM Partners built a strong business repping writers as well as intellectual property storehouses like The New York Times, 60 Minutes and New York magazine, has launched the management/production company Storied Media Group. Hoffman, who left ICM over the summer after a long run there…

Todd Hoffman joined BWCS in 2000 before that agency was acquired by ICM Partners. Now he is leaving to open a new management and production company. His transition will take place over the rest of the summer, and ICM Partners will continue to work with him. Among Hoffman’s clients in the New York Times, for which he…

Warner Bros has made neophyte scribe Nicholas Schoenfeld a nice deal for his original pitch Attila, an origin story about the leader of the Huns who brazenly attacked Rome and lay waste to much of Europe before dying under mysterious circumstances on his wedding night. While many in Hollywood make their way into the…