Exclusive: In a pre-emptive deal, Neon has acquired rights to Osgood Perkins’ (Longlegs) next genre movie Keeper, which will star Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black) and Rossif Sutherland (Possessor).
Neon will distribute in the U.S. and handle international sales rights to the film in Cannes, with Elevation Pictures set to distribute in Canada. Perkins directs from a screenplay written by Nick Lepard. Chris Ferguson and Jesse Savath of Oddfellows will produce.
Keeper follows a couple as they escape for a romantic anniversary weekend at a secluded cabin. When Malcolm (Sutherland) suddenly returns to the city, Liz (Maslany) finds herself isolated and in the presence of an unspeakable evil that unveils the cabin’s horrifying secrets.
Executive producers include Tatiana Maslany; Marlaina Mah for Oddfellows; Noah Segal and Laurie May for Elevation Pictures; Brian Kavanaugh Jones; Fred Berger and Peter Micelli on behalf of Range Media Partners; John Hegeman and Vince Totino...
Neon will distribute in the U.S. and handle international sales rights to the film in Cannes, with Elevation Pictures set to distribute in Canada. Perkins directs from a screenplay written by Nick Lepard. Chris Ferguson and Jesse Savath of Oddfellows will produce.
Keeper follows a couple as they escape for a romantic anniversary weekend at a secluded cabin. When Malcolm (Sutherland) suddenly returns to the city, Liz (Maslany) finds herself isolated and in the presence of an unspeakable evil that unveils the cabin’s horrifying secrets.
Executive producers include Tatiana Maslany; Marlaina Mah for Oddfellows; Noah Segal and Laurie May for Elevation Pictures; Brian Kavanaugh Jones; Fred Berger and Peter Micelli on behalf of Range Media Partners; John Hegeman and Vince Totino...
- 5/9/2024
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Range Media has raised fresh cash in what it is calling a “growth capital” round meant to expand its business both domestically and abroad.
The management and production firm, founded in 2020 by former CAA agent Peter Micelli and other former agents, says that it has completed an investment round with media mogul John Malone’s Liberty Global, Tpg founder David Bonderman’s Wildcat Capital, and the family entertainment company Playground Productions.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, though a source said that it was a “substantial” minority investment. Liberty, Wildcat and Playground join Steve Cohen’s Point72 Ventures and A+E Networks as investors in Range.
A+E Networks invested in Range in 2022, in connection with a production deal.
Since its founding Range has expanded into other areas, including music, sports, and gaming. The company also merged with the production company Automatik.
The company says it will use the cash...
The management and production firm, founded in 2020 by former CAA agent Peter Micelli and other former agents, says that it has completed an investment round with media mogul John Malone’s Liberty Global, Tpg founder David Bonderman’s Wildcat Capital, and the family entertainment company Playground Productions.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, though a source said that it was a “substantial” minority investment. Liberty, Wildcat and Playground join Steve Cohen’s Point72 Ventures and A+E Networks as investors in Range.
A+E Networks invested in Range in 2022, in connection with a production deal.
Since its founding Range has expanded into other areas, including music, sports, and gaming. The company also merged with the production company Automatik.
The company says it will use the cash...
- 4/23/2024
- by Alex Weprin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Range Media Partners has secured a minority investment from a group including Liberty Global and Tpg founding partner David Bonderman’s family office Wildcat Capital Management.
Family entertainment company Playground Productions is also a participant in the new round, terms of which were not disclosed. The new investors join an existing roster of backers, among them A+E Networks and hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen’s Point72 Ventures.
In announcing the deal, Range said it would help “spur growth initiatives and strategic acquisitions.”
Since Deadline broke news of the formation of Range in 2020 with a bunch of best and brightest who left CAA, WME and other posts, the management/production concern has slowly expanded its operations into entertainment sports, music, digital, advertising and other sectors.
Over the past year, Range solidified its film capabilities by merging with La La Land production company Automatik. The firm also set out a sports strategy...
Family entertainment company Playground Productions is also a participant in the new round, terms of which were not disclosed. The new investors join an existing roster of backers, among them A+E Networks and hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen’s Point72 Ventures.
In announcing the deal, Range said it would help “spur growth initiatives and strategic acquisitions.”
Since Deadline broke news of the formation of Range in 2020 with a bunch of best and brightest who left CAA, WME and other posts, the management/production concern has slowly expanded its operations into entertainment sports, music, digital, advertising and other sectors.
Over the past year, Range solidified its film capabilities by merging with La La Land production company Automatik. The firm also set out a sports strategy...
- 4/23/2024
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Award-winning television producer Simon Andreae is joining Range Studios to co-run the non-scripted television studio division alongside Mark Herwick, who launched the studio in late 2021.
Together as co-presidents, Andreae and Herwick will bolster the non-scripted studio’s full production and post-production capabilities globally.
“When Mark first approached me about the role, it was clear that both he and the wider team at Range had managed to combine the passion and energy of a start up with the heft and breadth of a much more mature organization,” Andreae said. “With a stellar client list to help inspire us and an already fascinating slate on which to build, I am looking forward to joining Mark at such an exciting stage in the studio’s evolution and helping expand our overall offering.”
Most recently, Andreae served as CEO of Fremantle U.K., one of the U.K.’s largest studio groups whose labels produce...
Together as co-presidents, Andreae and Herwick will bolster the non-scripted studio’s full production and post-production capabilities globally.
“When Mark first approached me about the role, it was clear that both he and the wider team at Range had managed to combine the passion and energy of a start up with the heft and breadth of a much more mature organization,” Andreae said. “With a stellar client list to help inspire us and an already fascinating slate on which to build, I am looking forward to joining Mark at such an exciting stage in the studio’s evolution and helping expand our overall offering.”
Most recently, Andreae served as CEO of Fremantle U.K., one of the U.K.’s largest studio groups whose labels produce...
- 4/11/2024
- by Katcy Stephan
- Variety Film + TV
X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, is moving heavily into original entertainment with a multi-show slate deal with Range Media Partners.
The first show as part of the deal with the Elon Musk-owned platform will be hosted by sports host Jim Rome.
It comes after the platform announced that former CNN host Don Lemon would also be hosting a show on the platform.
Rome, the host of The Jim Rome Show, the longest running, nationally syndicated long-form sports talk program in America, will launch a digital video show airing throughout the year on X starting after the Super Bowl.
The deal will see Musk’s company and Range develop and produce at least 10 shows, across various genres and formats.
It is thought to be the first multi-show slate deal for the controversial social media platform, although Musk has signed the likes of Tucker Carlson to launch...
The first show as part of the deal with the Elon Musk-owned platform will be hosted by sports host Jim Rome.
It comes after the platform announced that former CNN host Don Lemon would also be hosting a show on the platform.
Rome, the host of The Jim Rome Show, the longest running, nationally syndicated long-form sports talk program in America, will launch a digital video show airing throughout the year on X starting after the Super Bowl.
The deal will see Musk’s company and Range develop and produce at least 10 shows, across various genres and formats.
It is thought to be the first multi-show slate deal for the controversial social media platform, although Musk has signed the likes of Tucker Carlson to launch...
- 1/9/2024
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Jack Harlow, Emilia Clarke and Halle Berry Serve as Talent Advisors for Fan Engagement Platform Mith
A new fan engagement platform is set to launch with backing from entertainment industry partners and talent like Jack Harlow, Emilia Clarke and Halle Berry.
It’s called Mith and is designed to give creators “a unified platform allowing unprecedented freedom to control how they create, connect with and distribute to their fans.” Part of that will also include e-commerce amid the rise in social media shopping tied to recommendations and direct product offerings from influencers, artists and content creators.
Mith, set to debut in early 2024, was co-founded by a team of industry veterans from entertainment, including experiential marketing and music executive Michelle Sanchez, former ID-pr vp of digital strategy and partnerships and current Range Media Partners exec Natalie Bruss, Ibm marketing veteran Lillian Marsh, TinyWins co-founder and chief creative officer Matty Ayers, and Range Media Partners CEO Peter Micelli. The team also includes Cort Langworthy, Stephanie Smellie, Martin Kaczynski and Victoria Taylor.
It’s called Mith and is designed to give creators “a unified platform allowing unprecedented freedom to control how they create, connect with and distribute to their fans.” Part of that will also include e-commerce amid the rise in social media shopping tied to recommendations and direct product offerings from influencers, artists and content creators.
Mith, set to debut in early 2024, was co-founded by a team of industry veterans from entertainment, including experiential marketing and music executive Michelle Sanchez, former ID-pr vp of digital strategy and partnerships and current Range Media Partners exec Natalie Bruss, Ibm marketing veteran Lillian Marsh, TinyWins co-founder and chief creative officer Matty Ayers, and Range Media Partners CEO Peter Micelli. The team also includes Cort Langworthy, Stephanie Smellie, Martin Kaczynski and Victoria Taylor.
- 11/30/2023
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Range Media Partners has signed Chinese actor, singer-songwriter, dancer and fashion icon Lay Zhang and will represent him globally across all areas.
The 31-year-old star, who operates under multiple pseudonyms including Lay and Little Sheep, rose to fame as a former member of K-Pop boyband Exo before launching a solo career, already is a household name in Asia, boasting more than 80 million followers across social media.
As an actor, he stars under his full name Zhang Yixing in the Chinese box office smash “No More Bets,” which has earned more than $527 million in China to date, becoming the country’s biggest hit of the summer. Zhang is now the youngest and fifth-ever Chinese actor to reach this box office milestone. “No More Bets” also received a limited release in the U.S. on Sept. 1.
Next year, he will be seen starring opposite Jackie Chan in the film “A Legend.
The 31-year-old star, who operates under multiple pseudonyms including Lay and Little Sheep, rose to fame as a former member of K-Pop boyband Exo before launching a solo career, already is a household name in Asia, boasting more than 80 million followers across social media.
As an actor, he stars under his full name Zhang Yixing in the Chinese box office smash “No More Bets,” which has earned more than $527 million in China to date, becoming the country’s biggest hit of the summer. Zhang is now the youngest and fifth-ever Chinese actor to reach this box office milestone. “No More Bets” also received a limited release in the U.S. on Sept. 1.
Next year, he will be seen starring opposite Jackie Chan in the film “A Legend.
- 9/19/2023
- by Tatiana Siegel
- Variety Film + TV
Range Media Partners has signed video game creator Dan Houser and his media company, Absurd Ventures.
Houser was previously the co-founder, creative director and lead writer for Rockstar Games, and while there worked on popular franchises such as Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption and Bully. The company is a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive.
In June 2023, Houser announced the launch of Absurd Ventures, which will create characters, stories and art for live-action and animated TV and film, as well as video games, books, graphic novels, podcasts and more.
Range will represent Absurd Ventures for content financing, licensing, production and sales across all formats, platforms and outlets. The talent representation and management startup was formed in 2020 by former CAA agent and production executive Peter Micelli and agents from CAA, UTA and WME.
“Dan Houser’s cultural impact as a writer, producer and IP creator is incomparable. He has helped build some...
Houser was previously the co-founder, creative director and lead writer for Rockstar Games, and while there worked on popular franchises such as Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption and Bully. The company is a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive.
In June 2023, Houser announced the launch of Absurd Ventures, which will create characters, stories and art for live-action and animated TV and film, as well as video games, books, graphic novels, podcasts and more.
Range will represent Absurd Ventures for content financing, licensing, production and sales across all formats, platforms and outlets. The talent representation and management startup was formed in 2020 by former CAA agent and production executive Peter Micelli and agents from CAA, UTA and WME.
“Dan Houser’s cultural impact as a writer, producer and IP creator is incomparable. He has helped build some...
- 7/27/2023
- by Caitlin Huston
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Hedge Funds into Festivals: Future Frames — Generation Next of European Cinema at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2023Can U.S. companies be viewing international film festivals in a new light that foretells a new source of financing for the festivals which are facing the same cutbacks as all other cultural initiatives as post-Covid inflation and arming big wars take the lion’s share of capital?
Sydney Levine
Published in
SydneysBuzz The Blog
·5 min read·4 days ago
Three important new players are eyeing ten emerging European film directors as they launch their careers in the film industry at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the 8th edition of Future Frames — Generation Next of European Cinema organized by the European Film Promotion and Kviff. The selected participants, chosen among film students and graduates, will showcase their films to the festival audience and engage in an intensive program that will introduce them to the film industry and media in a way that goes beyond the borders of Europe.
The final 10, chosen by Kviff’s artistic director Karel Och and his team of programmers follow a two-part schedule, starting with an online pre-program of pitching training and industry meetings. During the festival, Efp introduces the young directors and their films to the public, film industry and press. The three-day on-site event running from 2 July is rounded off by this year’s mentor, the acclaimed Polish director Agnieszka Smoczyńska who will provide an exclusive private master class for the young filmmakers.
*** click here for more information about you might be selected ***
The new financing infusion comes from future-seeing U.S.- and U.K.-based bigtime cultural business for this year’s Future Frames program
A new partnership with leading multi-national lottery operator Allwyn as well as U.S.-based talent agency UTA and management company Range Media Partners will provide feedback and guidance to the filmmakers. One participant will ultimately be selected who will receive a special scholarship sponsored by Allwyn to go to Los Angeles and learn from the best in the film industry.
UTA’s partnership with the Karlovy Vary Film Festival may be explained in part by the agency’s partner Rena Ronson. The first woman to run an independent financing, packaging and sales department at an agency as sole head, she now co-heads UTA Independent Film Group. In reading her in-depth interview with Screen International, readers will learn what gives Rena her special international view of film, something sorely lacking in most U.S. major players.
U.S. based venture capital as invested in Range Media Partners is also aiming outward from the U.S. The largest startup in Hollywood’s talent representation sector in years, Rmp was launched in late summer 2020 during the Covid pandemic. Its founders and partners, two former agents from CAA, Peter Micelli and Jack Whigham, have an ambitious vision for the management, production and business development side of the industry. With financial backing coming former Wall Street hedge funder Steven A. Cohen’ who reached a $1.2 billion settlement of insider trading charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2013, his private equity firm, Point72, has been a valued advisor but has no day-to-day role in running the agency. Their combined vision sees going beyond classic booking roles in TV shows and movies into the empire-building of business development and venture capital investments. Range Media now has nearly 150 staffers thanks to the financial backing from Point72 and it has expanded quickly through another partnership with A+E Networks that gives it a boost in content production and distribution.
Agnieszka Smoczyńska
In an exclusive master class entitled “How to make your first movie“, Agnieszka Smoczyńska will talk about her experiences and encourage the young directors to follow their ideas and go their own ways. Smoczyńska will present her highly-acclaimed first feature film, The Lure, a mixture of musical and horror film.
Agnieszka Smoczyńska debuted in 2015 with The Lure– genre-bending, horror-musical mashup which won awards around the world, at dozens of international festivals, including Sundance Film Festival Porto, Sofia, Montreal, Vilnius. The Lure is a part of the prestigious Criterion Collection and was theatrically released in US via Janus Film. Her second feature film Fugue premiered at the Cannes Critics’ Week. In 2023, it was released in US theaters. In 2022, her English-language debut, The Silent Twins starring Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance, premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival. Smoczyńska took part in the European Cinema: Ten Women Filmmakers to Watch program. She was also a winner of the Global Filmmaking Award sponsored by the Sundance Institute. In 2022 she was among five directors to watch at Cannes Film Festival.
About Allwyn
Announced as a main partner of Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in April 2023, Allwyn, a leading multi-national lottery operator, will support the Future Frames initiative for three years. As a main partner of Kviff, Allwyn will host the Allwyn Future Frames Lounge on site and bring the ten emerging European talents together with industry leaders, including overseas talent agency UTA and management company Range Media Partners.
“We look forward to welcoming all the talented directors to the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival this year, selected as part of the Future Frames initiative. We are also very much looking forward to welcoming one of the ten directors on the newly established scholarship to Hollywood, introduced this year in partnership with UTA and Range Media. Changing lives is core to our mission and we are very pleased to be affording talented directors the opportunity to work with the very best in the film industry,” said Pavel Turek, Allwyn’s Chief Officer of Global Brand, Corporate Communication, and Csr.
This year’s group not only has experience in festivals, but the 10 also includes two award winners such as Germany’s Sophia Mocorrea who won the Short Film Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival and received a Special Mention at this year’s Berlinale with her film The Kidnapping of the Bride in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section. The Netherlands’ Joris Tobé’s Frantic Attempts won the Knf Award for Best Graduation Project at the Netherlands Film Festival in 2022. Other films from this year’s Berlinale include The Shift by Denmark’s Amalie Maria Nielsen (Generation Kplus) and Spain’s Christian Avilés’ Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays(Berlinale Shorts). Heart Fruit by Kim Allamand celebrated its world premiere in the Pardi Di Domani section at the Locarno Film Festival last year.
For more details of the selected 10, click here.
Also chosen are Czech Republic’s Anna Izabela Wowra for Stuck Together, Italy’s Giulia Regini for Cut From the Same Cow, Lithuania’s Rinaldas Tomaševičius for 15, Portugal’s Inês Pedrosa e Melo for Home, Revised, Slovak Republic’s Monika Mahútová for Standing Still and Switzerland’s Kim Allamand for Heart Fruit.
MoviesInternational FilmFilm FestivalsWomen In FilmFilm Financing...
Sydney Levine
Published in
SydneysBuzz The Blog
·5 min read·4 days ago
Three important new players are eyeing ten emerging European film directors as they launch their careers in the film industry at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the 8th edition of Future Frames — Generation Next of European Cinema organized by the European Film Promotion and Kviff. The selected participants, chosen among film students and graduates, will showcase their films to the festival audience and engage in an intensive program that will introduce them to the film industry and media in a way that goes beyond the borders of Europe.
The final 10, chosen by Kviff’s artistic director Karel Och and his team of programmers follow a two-part schedule, starting with an online pre-program of pitching training and industry meetings. During the festival, Efp introduces the young directors and their films to the public, film industry and press. The three-day on-site event running from 2 July is rounded off by this year’s mentor, the acclaimed Polish director Agnieszka Smoczyńska who will provide an exclusive private master class for the young filmmakers.
*** click here for more information about you might be selected ***
The new financing infusion comes from future-seeing U.S.- and U.K.-based bigtime cultural business for this year’s Future Frames program
A new partnership with leading multi-national lottery operator Allwyn as well as U.S.-based talent agency UTA and management company Range Media Partners will provide feedback and guidance to the filmmakers. One participant will ultimately be selected who will receive a special scholarship sponsored by Allwyn to go to Los Angeles and learn from the best in the film industry.
UTA’s partnership with the Karlovy Vary Film Festival may be explained in part by the agency’s partner Rena Ronson. The first woman to run an independent financing, packaging and sales department at an agency as sole head, she now co-heads UTA Independent Film Group. In reading her in-depth interview with Screen International, readers will learn what gives Rena her special international view of film, something sorely lacking in most U.S. major players.
U.S. based venture capital as invested in Range Media Partners is also aiming outward from the U.S. The largest startup in Hollywood’s talent representation sector in years, Rmp was launched in late summer 2020 during the Covid pandemic. Its founders and partners, two former agents from CAA, Peter Micelli and Jack Whigham, have an ambitious vision for the management, production and business development side of the industry. With financial backing coming former Wall Street hedge funder Steven A. Cohen’ who reached a $1.2 billion settlement of insider trading charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2013, his private equity firm, Point72, has been a valued advisor but has no day-to-day role in running the agency. Their combined vision sees going beyond classic booking roles in TV shows and movies into the empire-building of business development and venture capital investments. Range Media now has nearly 150 staffers thanks to the financial backing from Point72 and it has expanded quickly through another partnership with A+E Networks that gives it a boost in content production and distribution.
Agnieszka Smoczyńska
In an exclusive master class entitled “How to make your first movie“, Agnieszka Smoczyńska will talk about her experiences and encourage the young directors to follow their ideas and go their own ways. Smoczyńska will present her highly-acclaimed first feature film, The Lure, a mixture of musical and horror film.
Agnieszka Smoczyńska debuted in 2015 with The Lure– genre-bending, horror-musical mashup which won awards around the world, at dozens of international festivals, including Sundance Film Festival Porto, Sofia, Montreal, Vilnius. The Lure is a part of the prestigious Criterion Collection and was theatrically released in US via Janus Film. Her second feature film Fugue premiered at the Cannes Critics’ Week. In 2023, it was released in US theaters. In 2022, her English-language debut, The Silent Twins starring Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance, premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival. Smoczyńska took part in the European Cinema: Ten Women Filmmakers to Watch program. She was also a winner of the Global Filmmaking Award sponsored by the Sundance Institute. In 2022 she was among five directors to watch at Cannes Film Festival.
About Allwyn
Announced as a main partner of Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in April 2023, Allwyn, a leading multi-national lottery operator, will support the Future Frames initiative for three years. As a main partner of Kviff, Allwyn will host the Allwyn Future Frames Lounge on site and bring the ten emerging European talents together with industry leaders, including overseas talent agency UTA and management company Range Media Partners.
“We look forward to welcoming all the talented directors to the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival this year, selected as part of the Future Frames initiative. We are also very much looking forward to welcoming one of the ten directors on the newly established scholarship to Hollywood, introduced this year in partnership with UTA and Range Media. Changing lives is core to our mission and we are very pleased to be affording talented directors the opportunity to work with the very best in the film industry,” said Pavel Turek, Allwyn’s Chief Officer of Global Brand, Corporate Communication, and Csr.
This year’s group not only has experience in festivals, but the 10 also includes two award winners such as Germany’s Sophia Mocorrea who won the Short Film Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival and received a Special Mention at this year’s Berlinale with her film The Kidnapping of the Bride in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section. The Netherlands’ Joris Tobé’s Frantic Attempts won the Knf Award for Best Graduation Project at the Netherlands Film Festival in 2022. Other films from this year’s Berlinale include The Shift by Denmark’s Amalie Maria Nielsen (Generation Kplus) and Spain’s Christian Avilés’ Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays(Berlinale Shorts). Heart Fruit by Kim Allamand celebrated its world premiere in the Pardi Di Domani section at the Locarno Film Festival last year.
For more details of the selected 10, click here.
Also chosen are Czech Republic’s Anna Izabela Wowra for Stuck Together, Italy’s Giulia Regini for Cut From the Same Cow, Lithuania’s Rinaldas Tomaševičius for 15, Portugal’s Inês Pedrosa e Melo for Home, Revised, Slovak Republic’s Monika Mahútová for Standing Still and Switzerland’s Kim Allamand for Heart Fruit.
MoviesInternational FilmFilm FestivalsWomen In FilmFilm Financing...
- 7/10/2023
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
The 57th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will focus on independent Iranian cinema this year, with a selection of recent works by directors working outside the Tehran regime.
The nine features, all made in the past four years, and most from young directors at the start of their careers, “offer an insightful testimony of the burning creativity of Iran’s artists in the face of their challenging reality,” the festival said in a statement, calling the films examples of “urgent, unheard, voices who palpably bear a spiritual connection to the previous generations of their country’s greats [and who] tackle the current reality [in Iran] with a remarkable sensitivity and great inventiveness.”
The selection includes two features from this year: Negin Ahmadi’s Dream’s Gate and Zapata from director Danesh Eqbashavi; two from 2022: Nader Saeivar’s No End and The Locust, directed by Faeze Azizkhani; Bahram Ark’s The Skin and Vahid Vakilifar’s K9,...
The nine features, all made in the past four years, and most from young directors at the start of their careers, “offer an insightful testimony of the burning creativity of Iran’s artists in the face of their challenging reality,” the festival said in a statement, calling the films examples of “urgent, unheard, voices who palpably bear a spiritual connection to the previous generations of their country’s greats [and who] tackle the current reality [in Iran] with a remarkable sensitivity and great inventiveness.”
The selection includes two features from this year: Negin Ahmadi’s Dream’s Gate and Zapata from director Danesh Eqbashavi; two from 2022: Nader Saeivar’s No End and The Locust, directed by Faeze Azizkhani; Bahram Ark’s The Skin and Vahid Vakilifar’s K9,...
- 4/25/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Jenji Kohan, creator of Showtime’s Weeds and Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black, has signed with Range Media Partners. Kohan, who had been without a manager for a while, is reuniting with Range co-founder/CEO Peter Micelli, who was her agent at CAA before he left in 2018. Kohan remains represented by CAA on the agency side.
In addition to long-running hits Weeds and Orange is the New Black, which Kohan created and executive produced, she also executive produced Glow, Social Distance and Teenage Bounty Hunters at Netflix where she had been under an overall deal.
She is currently executive producing the upcoming Netflix period drama series The Decameron, created/executive produced by Teenage Bounty Hunters creator Kathleen Jordan, who serves as showrunner.
Kohan has earned 11 Emmy nominations to date, winning in 1997 as part of the producing team of Tracey Takes On… She also continues to be repped by Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
In addition to long-running hits Weeds and Orange is the New Black, which Kohan created and executive produced, she also executive produced Glow, Social Distance and Teenage Bounty Hunters at Netflix where she had been under an overall deal.
She is currently executive producing the upcoming Netflix period drama series The Decameron, created/executive produced by Teenage Bounty Hunters creator Kathleen Jordan, who serves as showrunner.
Kohan has earned 11 Emmy nominations to date, winning in 1997 as part of the producing team of Tracey Takes On… She also continues to be repped by Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
- 3/15/2023
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Prolific TV director Jessica Lowrey has inked with Range Media Partners for management. The signing comes at a pivotal moment in her career, as she looks to expand into features, while mounting TV pilots.
Lowrey is perhaps best known for directing episodes of such series as Starz’s Heels, AMC’s Fear the Walking, USA Network’s Briarpatch, Queen of the South and Shooter, Fox’s The Passage, Paramount Network’s Heathers, and DC Universe/HBO Max’s Doom Patrol, to name a few.
The rising director recently wrapped shooting blocks of HBO’s Perry Mason and Paramount+’s Halo, as well as Prime Video’s Night Sky. Up next for Lowrey is a block of the eight-episode Netflix limited series The Madness, starring Euphoria‘s Colman Domingo. She continues to be represented by WME.
Other recent signings by Range Media Partners that we were first to report on include Academy Award-winning actress,...
Lowrey is perhaps best known for directing episodes of such series as Starz’s Heels, AMC’s Fear the Walking, USA Network’s Briarpatch, Queen of the South and Shooter, Fox’s The Passage, Paramount Network’s Heathers, and DC Universe/HBO Max’s Doom Patrol, to name a few.
The rising director recently wrapped shooting blocks of HBO’s Perry Mason and Paramount+’s Halo, as well as Prime Video’s Night Sky. Up next for Lowrey is a block of the eight-episode Netflix limited series The Madness, starring Euphoria‘s Colman Domingo. She continues to be represented by WME.
Other recent signings by Range Media Partners that we were first to report on include Academy Award-winning actress,...
- 2/14/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Rana Zand and Mariam Rastegar have joined Range Media Partners’ digital department as managers, having come over from Uncmmn, a subsidiary of MacRo.
Zand and Rastegar will help build out the talent management firm’s expanding digital creator business, focusing on diverse voices, while also supporting the Range Media roster across YouTube, Instagram and other digital platforms. At Uncmmn, Zand served as a partner and Rastegar as a senior talent manager who spearheaded digital strategy and development for digitally native talent and traditional clients.
Range Media’s clients span industries — film, television, music, sports, tech, literature, activism — and the company is designed to support talent and scale their portfolio companies.
Before Uncmmn, Zand, who started out in the WME mailroom, worked at Authentic for four years as head of digital talent and focused on growing the division, from hiring a team to expanding its digital roaster. She crossed-over digitally-native talent to traditional platforms,...
Zand and Rastegar will help build out the talent management firm’s expanding digital creator business, focusing on diverse voices, while also supporting the Range Media roster across YouTube, Instagram and other digital platforms. At Uncmmn, Zand served as a partner and Rastegar as a senior talent manager who spearheaded digital strategy and development for digitally native talent and traditional clients.
Range Media’s clients span industries — film, television, music, sports, tech, literature, activism — and the company is designed to support talent and scale their portfolio companies.
Before Uncmmn, Zand, who started out in the WME mailroom, worked at Authentic for four years as head of digital talent and focused on growing the division, from hiring a team to expanding its digital roaster. She crossed-over digitally-native talent to traditional platforms,...
- 1/25/2023
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: A+E Studios and Range Media Partners have prevailed in a competitive auction surrounding Swedish crime novelist Christoffer Carlsson’s International bestseller Blaze Me a Sun and its follow-up, Under the Storm, securing film and TV rights to both titles.
The announcement comes hot on the heels of Good Morning America‘s naming of Blaze Me a Sun as its Buzz Pick of the Week. The title, first published in the U.S. by Hogarth Books on January 3, tells the tale of a small town’s collective guilt when a serial killer commits his first murder the same night the prime minister is assassinated. Under the Storm has not yet been published in the U.S., though it’s currently available in Sweden.
“We are delighted to be working with Christoffer to adapt Blaze Me A Sun and Under The Storm,” said Range’s Co-Heads of International, Oliver Riddle & Thomas Daley.
The announcement comes hot on the heels of Good Morning America‘s naming of Blaze Me a Sun as its Buzz Pick of the Week. The title, first published in the U.S. by Hogarth Books on January 3, tells the tale of a small town’s collective guilt when a serial killer commits his first murder the same night the prime minister is assassinated. Under the Storm has not yet been published in the U.S., though it’s currently available in Sweden.
“We are delighted to be working with Christoffer to adapt Blaze Me A Sun and Under The Storm,” said Range’s Co-Heads of International, Oliver Riddle & Thomas Daley.
- 1/13/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Range Media Partners has signed actress, writer and producer Antonia Desplat for management.
Desplat most recently starred opposite Charlie Hunnam in Apple TV+’s series Shantaram, based on the novel of the same name by Gregory David Roberts. Prior television credits include ITV’s The Durrells and Victoria, as well as the Netflix drama The Letter for the King.
Desplat’s most recent big-screen role came as part of the ensemble of Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, which had her appearing alongside Timothée Chalamet, Saoirse Ronan, Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton. Additional film credits include MGM’s Operation Finale with Oscar Isaac, Ben Kingsley and Mélanie Laurent, and the French short film Naissance d’une étoile, in which she starred alongside Oscar nominee Catherine Deneuve.
Desplat is best known on the filmmaking side for producing and starring in the short Held for a Moment. The film won her...
Desplat most recently starred opposite Charlie Hunnam in Apple TV+’s series Shantaram, based on the novel of the same name by Gregory David Roberts. Prior television credits include ITV’s The Durrells and Victoria, as well as the Netflix drama The Letter for the King.
Desplat’s most recent big-screen role came as part of the ensemble of Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, which had her appearing alongside Timothée Chalamet, Saoirse Ronan, Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton. Additional film credits include MGM’s Operation Finale with Oscar Isaac, Ben Kingsley and Mélanie Laurent, and the French short film Naissance d’une étoile, in which she starred alongside Oscar nominee Catherine Deneuve.
Desplat is best known on the filmmaking side for producing and starring in the short Held for a Moment. The film won her...
- 1/11/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Range Media Partners is the biggest startup to take root in Hollywood’s talent representation sector in years.
On the latest episode of Variety podcast “Strictly Business,” Range Media co-founders and partners Peter Micelli and Jack Whigham, both CAA veterans, detail their ambitious vision for the management, production and business development firm that vows to nurture “intimate” relationships with a select group of clients that extend beyond booking roles in TV shows and movies and into the empire-building of business development and venture capital investments.
“Talent is the atomic unit of the future,” Micelli said about the orientation of the company. “It’s talent that can build community and can move mountains. That is a fundamental principle. So Range is designed to help exceptional talent unlock their full global value in all businesses.”
Range Media, which now has nearly 150 staffers, got off the ground during the buzzsaw of the pandemic...
On the latest episode of Variety podcast “Strictly Business,” Range Media co-founders and partners Peter Micelli and Jack Whigham, both CAA veterans, detail their ambitious vision for the management, production and business development firm that vows to nurture “intimate” relationships with a select group of clients that extend beyond booking roles in TV shows and movies and into the empire-building of business development and venture capital investments.
“Talent is the atomic unit of the future,” Micelli said about the orientation of the company. “It’s talent that can build community and can move mountains. That is a fundamental principle. So Range is designed to help exceptional talent unlock their full global value in all businesses.”
Range Media, which now has nearly 150 staffers, got off the ground during the buzzsaw of the pandemic...
- 12/15/2022
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Filmmaker William Brent Bell has signed with Range Media Partners for management in all areas.
Bell is a writer, director and producer who most recently helmed Paramount Players’ Orphan: First Kill, a follow-up to the fan-favorite horror-thriller Orphan, released worldwide by Warner Bros. in 2009. The film picks up with Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman) — the Estonian murderer with the appearance of a child — after she orchestrates a brilliant escape from a psychiatric facility, watching as she travels to America by impersonating the missing daughter of a wealthy family. Julia Stiles also stars.
Bell’s feature directorial credits also include the cult classic 2006 horror film Stay Alive; the box office smash The Devil Inside, which he also co-wrote; and the horror Wer, as well as The Boy and its sequel Brahms: The Boy II.
Bell is currently in post-production on his latest feature, Lord of Misrule — a contemporary folk horror starring Tuppence Middleton,...
Bell is a writer, director and producer who most recently helmed Paramount Players’ Orphan: First Kill, a follow-up to the fan-favorite horror-thriller Orphan, released worldwide by Warner Bros. in 2009. The film picks up with Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman) — the Estonian murderer with the appearance of a child — after she orchestrates a brilliant escape from a psychiatric facility, watching as she travels to America by impersonating the missing daughter of a wealthy family. Julia Stiles also stars.
Bell’s feature directorial credits also include the cult classic 2006 horror film Stay Alive; the box office smash The Devil Inside, which he also co-wrote; and the horror Wer, as well as The Boy and its sequel Brahms: The Boy II.
Bell is currently in post-production on his latest feature, Lord of Misrule — a contemporary folk horror starring Tuppence Middleton,...
- 12/8/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Range Media Partners has named CBS and 20th Television vet Dan Kupetz head of Range Studios’ entertainment business and legal affairs.
In his partner role, Kupetz will cover all aspects of Range Studios’ businesses, including scripted TV, unscripted, international content and features, and will work closely with Range’s strategic partners, including A+E Studios and FilmNation.
Most recently, Kupetz has been consulting business affairs execs after a year serving as executive vice president of business affairs and operations at Disney’s 20th Television Studios from March 2020 to February 2021. Prior to that position, Kupetz spent 20 years at CBS working on both the studio side and at the broadcast network. At CBS Studios, he oversaw business affairs during the studio’s increase in volume for CBS network and The CW, its expansion into production for streaming and premium cable, and the development of animation and international production businesses.
“We are so thrilled...
In his partner role, Kupetz will cover all aspects of Range Studios’ businesses, including scripted TV, unscripted, international content and features, and will work closely with Range’s strategic partners, including A+E Studios and FilmNation.
Most recently, Kupetz has been consulting business affairs execs after a year serving as executive vice president of business affairs and operations at Disney’s 20th Television Studios from March 2020 to February 2021. Prior to that position, Kupetz spent 20 years at CBS working on both the studio side and at the broadcast network. At CBS Studios, he oversaw business affairs during the studio’s increase in volume for CBS network and The CW, its expansion into production for streaming and premium cable, and the development of animation and international production businesses.
“We are so thrilled...
- 10/27/2022
- by Jennifer Maas
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Range Media Partners has signed acclaimed writer and playwright Stacy Osei-Kuffour, who recently became the first Black woman to pen a feature screenplay for Marvel Studios with the upcoming Blade, starring Mahershala Ali as the titular vampire hunter first brought to life on the big screen in 1998 by Wesley Snipes.
Osei-Kuffour won a WGA Award in 2020 as part of the writing staff behind HBO’s Emmy-winning series Watchmen, from creator Damon Lindelof. She was previously nominated for an Emmy in 2019 for her work on the “Anan Ishii Peters” episode of Hulu’s hit comedy series, PEN15.
Additional television credits on Osei-Kuffour’s part include HBO’s Run and Prime Video’s Hunters, as well as the latter service’s upcoming series The Power, which boasts an all-female writers’ room and will star Rob Delaney and Alice Eve.
Before turning to writing, Osei-Kuffour studied acting at New York University’s Stella Adler Studio of Acting,...
Osei-Kuffour won a WGA Award in 2020 as part of the writing staff behind HBO’s Emmy-winning series Watchmen, from creator Damon Lindelof. She was previously nominated for an Emmy in 2019 for her work on the “Anan Ishii Peters” episode of Hulu’s hit comedy series, PEN15.
Additional television credits on Osei-Kuffour’s part include HBO’s Run and Prime Video’s Hunters, as well as the latter service’s upcoming series The Power, which boasts an all-female writers’ room and will star Rob Delaney and Alice Eve.
Before turning to writing, Osei-Kuffour studied acting at New York University’s Stella Adler Studio of Acting,...
- 9/16/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Range Media Partners has hired Thomas Daley as Co-President of their International division based in London.
Daley joins Oliver Riddle as Co-President and the plan is for them to oversee the development and production of the growing U.S. management firm’s international TV and film content.
The division is working with Range clients to option IP, develop material and produce international-skewing projects. In addition to their first look deals with A+E Studios, FilmNation and Anton Capital, the division has 12 projects with UK and European firms in active development.
Daley joins Heather Kadin (President of Scripted TV) and Mark Herwick (President of Unscripted) as the heads Range Studios.
The executive recently left Universal International Studios, where he was Senior Vice President and Head of UK Creative, as Deadline revealed in June. As part of the senior leadership team he worked closely with Carnival Films, Heyday Television, Working Title, Matchbox Pictures and Lark.
Daley joins Oliver Riddle as Co-President and the plan is for them to oversee the development and production of the growing U.S. management firm’s international TV and film content.
The division is working with Range clients to option IP, develop material and produce international-skewing projects. In addition to their first look deals with A+E Studios, FilmNation and Anton Capital, the division has 12 projects with UK and European firms in active development.
Daley joins Heather Kadin (President of Scripted TV) and Mark Herwick (President of Unscripted) as the heads Range Studios.
The executive recently left Universal International Studios, where he was Senior Vice President and Head of UK Creative, as Deadline revealed in June. As part of the senior leadership team he worked closely with Carnival Films, Heyday Television, Working Title, Matchbox Pictures and Lark.
- 9/14/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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Carol Goll, a marketing executive and 15-year veteran at ICM Partners where she is a partner and head of global branded entertainment, is heading to Range Media, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned. There, Goll will be a partner and head of brand marketing and endorsements focused on building out the management and brand development company’s corporate representation and branding divisions.
Range Media Partners was formed in 2020 by former CAA agent and production executive Peter Micelli, along with a number of agents with high-profile clients who left firms like CAA, UTA and WME to join the venture.
“Carol has been an absolute force in the marketing world, building the highest level of brand relationships while working with the industry’s top talent across film, tv and music,” Sandra Kang, managing partner at Range Media Partners, said in a statement. “We are thrilled...
Carol Goll, a marketing executive and 15-year veteran at ICM Partners where she is a partner and head of global branded entertainment, is heading to Range Media, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned. There, Goll will be a partner and head of brand marketing and endorsements focused on building out the management and brand development company’s corporate representation and branding divisions.
Range Media Partners was formed in 2020 by former CAA agent and production executive Peter Micelli, along with a number of agents with high-profile clients who left firms like CAA, UTA and WME to join the venture.
“Carol has been an absolute force in the marketing world, building the highest level of brand relationships while working with the industry’s top talent across film, tv and music,” Sandra Kang, managing partner at Range Media Partners, said in a statement. “We are thrilled...
- 8/15/2022
- by Evan Nicole Brown
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Range Media Partners announced the formation of a sports division Tuesday, led by Will Funk, a former executive vice president at WarnerMedia.
The new division will produce live and on-demand original sports programming, manage and advise sports talent, properties and IP, and invest in sports content and distribution. Range Sports plans to represent current and former athletes, on-air broadcast talent and coaches, in the realm of marketing, TV and film, broadcasting and endorsements.
The division will be able to work with Range Media Partners’ unscripted and scripted entertainment departments, and the company’s pre-existing partnership with A&e Studios, to create nonfiction projects, documentaries and real-time series.
As president, Funk will specifically oversee the original content and programming operations, as well as media rights advisory, property representation, brand consulting and talent representation.
Before coming to Range Media, Funk spent 21 years at WarnerMedia’s Turner Sports,...
Range Media Partners announced the formation of a sports division Tuesday, led by Will Funk, a former executive vice president at WarnerMedia.
The new division will produce live and on-demand original sports programming, manage and advise sports talent, properties and IP, and invest in sports content and distribution. Range Sports plans to represent current and former athletes, on-air broadcast talent and coaches, in the realm of marketing, TV and film, broadcasting and endorsements.
The division will be able to work with Range Media Partners’ unscripted and scripted entertainment departments, and the company’s pre-existing partnership with A&e Studios, to create nonfiction projects, documentaries and real-time series.
As president, Funk will specifically oversee the original content and programming operations, as well as media rights advisory, property representation, brand consulting and talent representation.
Before coming to Range Media, Funk spent 21 years at WarnerMedia’s Turner Sports,...
- 7/12/2022
- by Caitlin Huston
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
During his time at Warner Bros. Discovery’s scrappy Turner Sports division, Will Funk helped put together “The Match,” a new celebrity golf tournament,and managed ad sales for March Madness, one of the nation’s top sports events. Now, he’s hoping to try something new.
Funk, one of the industry’s most influential sports-media executives, is leaving Turner to take a role as president of Range Sports, a new athletics-focused division of Range Media Partners, a talent-management start-up that launched last year under founder and CAA alumni Peter Micelli. The company counts Steven A. Cohen’s Point72 private-equity firm and A+E Networks as investors.
“We have had the pleasure of working with Will on various projects over the years, and each time, understood why he is one of the most respected minds in the world of Sports IP,” said Jack Whigham, a co-founding partner at Range. “The creativity,...
Funk, one of the industry’s most influential sports-media executives, is leaving Turner to take a role as president of Range Sports, a new athletics-focused division of Range Media Partners, a talent-management start-up that launched last year under founder and CAA alumni Peter Micelli. The company counts Steven A. Cohen’s Point72 private-equity firm and A+E Networks as investors.
“We have had the pleasure of working with Will on various projects over the years, and each time, understood why he is one of the most respected minds in the world of Sports IP,” said Jack Whigham, a co-founding partner at Range. “The creativity,...
- 7/12/2022
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
It has been nearly two years since a group of the best and brightest young agents and partners told their bosses they were stepping away from their million-dollar salaries to follow former eOne strategy officer and CAA television veteran Peter Micelli and be the founding partners of a new management company, Range Media Partners.
They made their dramatic pivot at the height of industry instability; movie theaters remained closed from Covid, production was slow to rebound as no one was writing Covid policies, and that meant no completion bonds; and studio tentpoles were being unloaded to streamers. The rep business was also in flux, with the WGA bent on eradicating the packages and affiliated productions that had increasingly fueled agency coffers.
So, a consortium of agents from CAA, UTA, WME and other firms, repping such A-listers as Bradley Cooper, Tom Hardy, Keira Knightley, Emilia Clarke and Ramy Youssef, decided to embrace change,...
They made their dramatic pivot at the height of industry instability; movie theaters remained closed from Covid, production was slow to rebound as no one was writing Covid policies, and that meant no completion bonds; and studio tentpoles were being unloaded to streamers. The rep business was also in flux, with the WGA bent on eradicating the packages and affiliated productions that had increasingly fueled agency coffers.
So, a consortium of agents from CAA, UTA, WME and other firms, repping such A-listers as Bradley Cooper, Tom Hardy, Keira Knightley, Emilia Clarke and Ramy Youssef, decided to embrace change,...
- 5/23/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro and Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
European producer-financier Anton and global talent management outfit Range Media Partners are teaming up for a development slate of European feature films.
The creative strategic alliance comes as Anton expands its U.K. and European production activities and Range Media Partners broadens its own development and production pipeline internationally.
The two companies have created an International Feature Development Fund that will be used to identify, option and develop IP from across Europe. Both companies will oversee the creative production process, commissioning scripts and working with U.K. and European talent.
Range Media Partners — launched in September 2020 by CAA and Entertainment One alum Peter Micelli — will leverage its international talent pool, while Anton will finance and handle sales on the films that emerge from the deal.
Range Media Partners formed a new international division headquartered in London under Oliver Riddle in the fall of 2021 to oversee the development and production of...
The creative strategic alliance comes as Anton expands its U.K. and European production activities and Range Media Partners broadens its own development and production pipeline internationally.
The two companies have created an International Feature Development Fund that will be used to identify, option and develop IP from across Europe. Both companies will oversee the creative production process, commissioning scripts and working with U.K. and European talent.
Range Media Partners — launched in September 2020 by CAA and Entertainment One alum Peter Micelli — will leverage its international talent pool, while Anton will finance and handle sales on the films that emerge from the deal.
Range Media Partners formed a new international division headquartered in London under Oliver Riddle in the fall of 2021 to oversee the development and production of...
- 5/12/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Denise Draper, formerly an agent in ICM’s unscripted and alternative team, has joined management and production firm Range Media Partners.
Draper joins as a partner and will continue to represent talent, showrunners and production companies in the unscripted space.
She has spent the last six years as an agent at ICM, representing exec producers including Heather Crowe (Love is Blind), Ian Gelfand (Summer House), Karin Jarlstedt (Home Sweet Home), Scott Jeffress (Temptation Island), Elizabeth Jones (The Kardashians), Jeff Thacker (So You Think You Can Dance), Ailee O’Neill (Bling Empire), and Darren Ward (Real Housewives of New York City). This list, among others, will follow her to Range.
During her time at the agency, she sold shows such as Bling Empire, produced by Jeff Jenkins Productions, to Netflix, worked with production companies including Thinkfactory Media and Machete TV and talent such as Flip or Flop’s Christina Hall and her company Unbroken Productions.
Draper joins as a partner and will continue to represent talent, showrunners and production companies in the unscripted space.
She has spent the last six years as an agent at ICM, representing exec producers including Heather Crowe (Love is Blind), Ian Gelfand (Summer House), Karin Jarlstedt (Home Sweet Home), Scott Jeffress (Temptation Island), Elizabeth Jones (The Kardashians), Jeff Thacker (So You Think You Can Dance), Ailee O’Neill (Bling Empire), and Darren Ward (Real Housewives of New York City). This list, among others, will follow her to Range.
During her time at the agency, she sold shows such as Bling Empire, produced by Jeff Jenkins Productions, to Netflix, worked with production companies including Thinkfactory Media and Machete TV and talent such as Flip or Flop’s Christina Hall and her company Unbroken Productions.
- 5/10/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Range Media Partners has hired ICM vet Denise Draper as partner in its nonscripted division.
In her new role at talent management startup Range, Draper will continue to work with talent, showrunners and production companies in the unscripted space, which is largely what her focus has been during her six-year tenure at ICM. During her time at the agency, Draper sold Netflix’s “Bling Empire,” produced by Jeff Jenkins Productions, and worked with production companies Thinkfactory Media, Jeff Jenkins Productions and Machete TV. Additionally, Draper repped Christina Hall from “Flip or Flop” and “Christina on the Coast” on HGTV and her company Unbroken Productions.
Draper, who began her career at Rebel Entertainment Partners, has represented a roster of executive producers that includes Heather Crowe (“Love Is Blind”), Ian Gelfand, Karin Jarlstedt, Scott Jeffress, Elizabeth Jones (“The Kardashians”), Jeff Thacker (“So You Think You Can Dance”), Ailee O’Neill and Darren Ward,...
In her new role at talent management startup Range, Draper will continue to work with talent, showrunners and production companies in the unscripted space, which is largely what her focus has been during her six-year tenure at ICM. During her time at the agency, Draper sold Netflix’s “Bling Empire,” produced by Jeff Jenkins Productions, and worked with production companies Thinkfactory Media, Jeff Jenkins Productions and Machete TV. Additionally, Draper repped Christina Hall from “Flip or Flop” and “Christina on the Coast” on HGTV and her company Unbroken Productions.
Draper, who began her career at Rebel Entertainment Partners, has represented a roster of executive producers that includes Heather Crowe (“Love Is Blind”), Ian Gelfand, Karin Jarlstedt, Scott Jeffress, Elizabeth Jones (“The Kardashians”), Jeff Thacker (“So You Think You Can Dance”), Ailee O’Neill and Darren Ward,...
- 5/10/2022
- by Jennifer Maas
- Variety Film + TV
Producer Heather Kadin has joined Range Media Partners as president of scripted television.
Kadin, most recently teamed with Alex Kurtzman in overseeing the “Star Trek” TV universe for Paramount, will oversee all of Range’s scripted development and production. She’ll serve as an executive producer on Range projects, help create new series and build brands through scripted content.
“I am beyond thrilled,” Kadin said. “After many years of producing mostly genre television, I had a strong desire to be more entrepreneurial and work with a wider array of talent. Range is exactly what I was looking for and I cannot wait to dig in with this team.”
Kadin most recently served as president of television for Kurtzman’s Paramount-based Secret Hideout banner and its predecessor, K/O Paper Products. In recent years she has served as where she executive produced series including CBS’ “Scorpion” and Fox’s “Sleepy Hollow,” and...
Kadin, most recently teamed with Alex Kurtzman in overseeing the “Star Trek” TV universe for Paramount, will oversee all of Range’s scripted development and production. She’ll serve as an executive producer on Range projects, help create new series and build brands through scripted content.
“I am beyond thrilled,” Kadin said. “After many years of producing mostly genre television, I had a strong desire to be more entrepreneurial and work with a wider array of talent. Range is exactly what I was looking for and I cannot wait to dig in with this team.”
Kadin most recently served as president of television for Kurtzman’s Paramount-based Secret Hideout banner and its predecessor, K/O Paper Products. In recent years she has served as where she executive produced series including CBS’ “Scorpion” and Fox’s “Sleepy Hollow,” and...
- 3/7/2022
- by Wyatte Grantham-Philips
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Former Secret Hideout President Heather Kadin has been tapped as President of Scripted Television for management and production company Range Media Partners. She will oversee all scripted development and production for Range Studios and will executive produce their scripted television projects under the company’s co-production arrangement with A+E Studios as part of A+E Networks’ minority stake acquisition.
Kadin will collaborate with Range’s team of managers and talent clients on creating new series and building scripted TV brands. Her hire completes the team of film and TV executives at Range as she joins recently appointed President of Non-Scripted TV Mark Herwick and Oliver Riddle, head of international film and TV.
An accomplished TV executive and producer, Kadin became available less than three months after a 12-year stint running Secret Hideout and its predecessor, K/O Paper Products, as President of Television.
“Heather and my journeys are incredibly intertwined.
Kadin will collaborate with Range’s team of managers and talent clients on creating new series and building scripted TV brands. Her hire completes the team of film and TV executives at Range as she joins recently appointed President of Non-Scripted TV Mark Herwick and Oliver Riddle, head of international film and TV.
An accomplished TV executive and producer, Kadin became available less than three months after a 12-year stint running Secret Hideout and its predecessor, K/O Paper Products, as President of Television.
“Heather and my journeys are incredibly intertwined.
- 3/7/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
A+E Networks has launched a content production and business development partnership with Range Media Partners. Under the deal, the network now has a minority stake in the company and will serve as Range’s production partner on scripted projects.
A+E and Range have also agreed to a first-look deal for nonfiction projects for its unscripted content creation units Category 6 Media and Six West Media.
“We are thrilled to partner with Peter Micelli and Range Media Partners, whose passion and creativity in pursuit of unlocking global value for artists and fostering a forward-thinking culture of innovation aligns with our vision of the future,” A+E Networks president and chairman Paul Buccieri said in a statement. “We were drawn to their impressive team and roster of entrepreneurially-minded talent and believe this investment will create strategic opportunities to accelerate the growth of our scripted and nonfiction content creation unit on a global scale.
A+E and Range have also agreed to a first-look deal for nonfiction projects for its unscripted content creation units Category 6 Media and Six West Media.
“We are thrilled to partner with Peter Micelli and Range Media Partners, whose passion and creativity in pursuit of unlocking global value for artists and fostering a forward-thinking culture of innovation aligns with our vision of the future,” A+E Networks president and chairman Paul Buccieri said in a statement. “We were drawn to their impressive team and roster of entrepreneurially-minded talent and believe this investment will create strategic opportunities to accelerate the growth of our scripted and nonfiction content creation unit on a global scale.
- 3/4/2022
- by Katie Campione
- The Wrap
A+E Networks has taken a minority stake in management and production firm Range Media Partners. No financial details are being disclosed but the stake is believed to be in the high teens percent and the deal in the $50 million ballpark, with Range’s valuation at around $300 million. That is a hefty valuation, especially for a company that is just a year and a half old. It is close to what one of Hollywood biggest, most established management-production companies, 3 Arts, sold for in 2018 after 27 years in the business.
The investment, spearheaded by Paul Buccieri, President & Chairman, A+E Networks, and Range CEO Peter Micelli, will see A+E Studios, A+E Networks’ production arm led by Barry Jossen, become a co-production partner for scripted TV projects emerging from Range. It also gives A+E Networks, which operates the likes of A&e, History and Lifetime, a first-look deal on factual television content...
The investment, spearheaded by Paul Buccieri, President & Chairman, A+E Networks, and Range CEO Peter Micelli, will see A+E Studios, A+E Networks’ production arm led by Barry Jossen, become a co-production partner for scripted TV projects emerging from Range. It also gives A+E Networks, which operates the likes of A&e, History and Lifetime, a first-look deal on factual television content...
- 3/4/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva and Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
A+E Networks has set a broad content production and business development venture with Range Media Partners, the talent management startup that launched 16 months ago by CAA and Entertainment One alum Peter Micelli.
As part of the deal, A+E Networks has taken a minority stake in Range, which has grown quickly with a roster of talent managers and executives, from across film, TV, music, talent representation, production, activism, branded content and venture strategy. A+E Networks is home to cable stalwarts A&e Network, History and Lifetime, the A+E Studios banner and a growing collection of Fast streaming channels.
The deal calls for A+E Studios to serve as Range’s production partner on scripted project. A+E Networks also has a first-look deal with Range for unscripted projects for its networks and production imprints Category 6 Media and Six West Media.
The expansive pact came about in part because the...
As part of the deal, A+E Networks has taken a minority stake in Range, which has grown quickly with a roster of talent managers and executives, from across film, TV, music, talent representation, production, activism, branded content and venture strategy. A+E Networks is home to cable stalwarts A&e Network, History and Lifetime, the A+E Studios banner and a growing collection of Fast streaming channels.
The deal calls for A+E Studios to serve as Range’s production partner on scripted project. A+E Networks also has a first-look deal with Range for unscripted projects for its networks and production imprints Category 6 Media and Six West Media.
The expansive pact came about in part because the...
- 3/4/2022
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
As it continues to expand, Range Media Partners is making strides in three major initiatives with Kyle Wilensky, Bo Balogun and Haley Hey have joining the company. Wilensky will serve as an Artist Manager and Vice President of Music Touring, Balogun will serve as a brand Narrative and creative executive and Hey has joined as manager for gaming talent, partnerships and strategy.
“Since its inception, Range has been committed to identifying trailblazers who have a unique understanding of our evolving media landscape. We are continuing an exciting expansion of our business in Gaming, Branded Content and Music with Haley, Bo and Kyle. We are incredibly lucky to collaborate with each of them as they help unlock global value for our clients in all areas of traditional and emerging business,” Peter Micelli of Range Media Partners.
Wilensky will spearhead Range Media Partner’s new Music Touring division, a position he is...
“Since its inception, Range has been committed to identifying trailblazers who have a unique understanding of our evolving media landscape. We are continuing an exciting expansion of our business in Gaming, Branded Content and Music with Haley, Bo and Kyle. We are incredibly lucky to collaborate with each of them as they help unlock global value for our clients in all areas of traditional and emerging business,” Peter Micelli of Range Media Partners.
Wilensky will spearhead Range Media Partner’s new Music Touring division, a position he is...
- 1/20/2022
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Range Media Partners has inked Silent Night director and writer Camille Griffin.
The Keira Knightley-Matthew Goode drama horror feature repped Griffin’s feature directorial debut and made its world premiere at Toronto last year.
AMC+ and Rlje Films picked up stateside rights to the movie which follows Nell (Knightley), Simon (Goode), and their son Art who are ready to welcome friends and family for what promises to be a perfect Christmas gathering. Perfect except for one thing: everyone is going to die. Roman Griffin Davis and Annabelle Wallis also star and the pic was produced by Marv. Silent Night won Best Screenplay and The Audience Award in the official selection at The Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia.
In addition to Range, Griffin is co-repped with CAA.
Previously, Griffin wrote and directed seven short films that screened at over 20 international film festivals. She originally trained in...
The Keira Knightley-Matthew Goode drama horror feature repped Griffin’s feature directorial debut and made its world premiere at Toronto last year.
AMC+ and Rlje Films picked up stateside rights to the movie which follows Nell (Knightley), Simon (Goode), and their son Art who are ready to welcome friends and family for what promises to be a perfect Christmas gathering. Perfect except for one thing: everyone is going to die. Roman Griffin Davis and Annabelle Wallis also star and the pic was produced by Marv. Silent Night won Best Screenplay and The Audience Award in the official selection at The Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia.
In addition to Range, Griffin is co-repped with CAA.
Previously, Griffin wrote and directed seven short films that screened at over 20 international film festivals. She originally trained in...
- 1/14/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Range Media Partners has signed award-winning screenwriter, director, novelist, cinematographer, and musician S. Craig Zahler, Deadline has learned.
“We are deeply honored to partner with UTA and work with Craig. There’s one Zahler on the planet. And that’s for good reason. He’s a true multi hyphenate. And a singular voice in writing directing and pure creation,” Michael Cooper of Range Media Partners tells Deadline.
Zahler is most widely known as the writer, director, and co-composer for the Independent Spirit Award nominated film Bone Tomahawk starring Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, and Richard Jenkins. The film was nominated in the categories of Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor.
Recently, Zahler wrote and directed Brawl in Cell Block 99, a New York Times Critic’s Pick, starring Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Carpenter, and Don Johnson. The movie premiered at the Venice Film Festival and went on to critical acclaim.
“We are deeply honored to partner with UTA and work with Craig. There’s one Zahler on the planet. And that’s for good reason. He’s a true multi hyphenate. And a singular voice in writing directing and pure creation,” Michael Cooper of Range Media Partners tells Deadline.
Zahler is most widely known as the writer, director, and co-composer for the Independent Spirit Award nominated film Bone Tomahawk starring Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, and Richard Jenkins. The film was nominated in the categories of Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor.
Recently, Zahler wrote and directed Brawl in Cell Block 99, a New York Times Critic’s Pick, starring Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Carpenter, and Don Johnson. The movie premiered at the Venice Film Festival and went on to critical acclaim.
- 12/10/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Mark Herwick, who was previously EVP, Unscripted Television at eOne, has joined Range Media Partners to bolster the company’s non-scripted ambitions.
Herwick becomes Range’s President of Non-Scripted Television. He has been tasked with building out its non-scripted studios and working with its clients, partners and brands to develop non-scripted TV projects as well as building out full production and post-production facilities.
He will also work with the likes of Ntertain, which was launched earlier this year in partnership with Tommy Mottola and Lex Borrero, to develop Latin Stories in non-scripted.
During his time at eOne, he worked on series such as its Growing Up Hip Hop franchise as well as BET’s Ladies Night and MTV’s Ex on the Beach and Siesta Key.
Range CEO Peter Micelli, who was formerly chief strategy officer at eOne, said, “Mark is the perfect combination of entrepreneur and culture fit for Range.
Herwick becomes Range’s President of Non-Scripted Television. He has been tasked with building out its non-scripted studios and working with its clients, partners and brands to develop non-scripted TV projects as well as building out full production and post-production facilities.
He will also work with the likes of Ntertain, which was launched earlier this year in partnership with Tommy Mottola and Lex Borrero, to develop Latin Stories in non-scripted.
During his time at eOne, he worked on series such as its Growing Up Hip Hop franchise as well as BET’s Ladies Night and MTV’s Ex on the Beach and Siesta Key.
Range CEO Peter Micelli, who was formerly chief strategy officer at eOne, said, “Mark is the perfect combination of entrepreneur and culture fit for Range.
- 11/11/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Mark Herwick has joined Range Media Partners, the management firm founded in 2020, as president of non-scripted television.
Herwick will work with all internal divisions at Range to maintain talent partnerships, brands, IP and industry-first data analytics in order to develop documentary projects. He will also work to develop the company’s verticals such as Ntertain, launched in 2021 in partnership with Tommy Mottola and lex Borrero to focus on Latin stories and talent. Additionally, Herwick will expand Range’s non-scripted studio to include full production and post-production facilities to service the company’s clients, brands and partners.
Before entering his new role, Herwick served as eOne’s executive vice president of unscripted television, where he oversaw all unscripted projects as well as eOne’s relationships with networks and talent. At eOne, he worked on series with Netflix, IMDbTV, Discovery Plus, A&e, E!, VH1, BET, HGTV, WeTV and more.
“Mark is...
Herwick will work with all internal divisions at Range to maintain talent partnerships, brands, IP and industry-first data analytics in order to develop documentary projects. He will also work to develop the company’s verticals such as Ntertain, launched in 2021 in partnership with Tommy Mottola and lex Borrero to focus on Latin stories and talent. Additionally, Herwick will expand Range’s non-scripted studio to include full production and post-production facilities to service the company’s clients, brands and partners.
Before entering his new role, Herwick served as eOne’s executive vice president of unscripted television, where he oversaw all unscripted projects as well as eOne’s relationships with networks and talent. At eOne, he worked on series with Netflix, IMDbTV, Discovery Plus, A&e, E!, VH1, BET, HGTV, WeTV and more.
“Mark is...
- 11/11/2021
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
Range Media Partners is expanding its TV business.
The management and brand development firm has added Mark Herwick as president non-scripted television. Herwick, a former Entertaiment One executive, will be tasked with finding and developing series formats and documentaries, building out the company’s unscripted studio and develop and help grow Range Media’s verticals — the first of which, Ntertain, launched in March in partnership with Tommy Mottola and Lex Borrero.
“Mark is the perfect combination of entrepreneur and culture fit for Range,” said Range Media Partners CEO Peter Micelli. “He’s wildly creative and forward thinking and ...
The management and brand development firm has added Mark Herwick as president non-scripted television. Herwick, a former Entertaiment One executive, will be tasked with finding and developing series formats and documentaries, building out the company’s unscripted studio and develop and help grow Range Media’s verticals — the first of which, Ntertain, launched in March in partnership with Tommy Mottola and Lex Borrero.
“Mark is the perfect combination of entrepreneur and culture fit for Range,” said Range Media Partners CEO Peter Micelli. “He’s wildly creative and forward thinking and ...
- 11/11/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Range Media Partners is expanding its TV business.
The management and brand development firm has added Mark Herwick as president non-scripted television. Herwick, a former Entertaiment One executive, will be tasked with finding and developing series formats and documentaries, building out the company’s unscripted studio and develop and help grow Range Media’s verticals — the first of which, Ntertain, launched in March in partnership with Tommy Mottola and Lex Borrero.
“Mark is the perfect combination of entrepreneur and culture fit for Range,” said Range Media Partners CEO Peter Micelli. “He’s wildly creative and forward thinking and ...
The management and brand development firm has added Mark Herwick as president non-scripted television. Herwick, a former Entertaiment One executive, will be tasked with finding and developing series formats and documentaries, building out the company’s unscripted studio and develop and help grow Range Media’s verticals — the first of which, Ntertain, launched in March in partnership with Tommy Mottola and Lex Borrero.
“Mark is the perfect combination of entrepreneur and culture fit for Range,” said Range Media Partners CEO Peter Micelli. “He’s wildly creative and forward thinking and ...
- 11/11/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Range Media Partners, the talent representation company launched by an army of former top agents last year, is jumping into the world of betting and gaming.
The firm announced Wednesday that it will form a joint venture with Game Play Network, a digital platform that lets the majority of U.S. citizens bet money on casino style games and sports-centric content like fantasy drafts.
The goal is to create talent-driven content and licensing opportunities for Range’s brand and celebrity clients. Range will also work with Gpn to develop new marketing strategies and player capabilities, as well as to further enhance the overall player experience.
“This groundbreaking announcement unites Range’s world class talent and brand expertise with Game Play Network’s unparalleled technology and market access. As partners, we are distinctly situated to shape the future in social gaming entertainment,” says Peter Micelli, Range’s CEO and co-founder.
Jack Whigham,...
The firm announced Wednesday that it will form a joint venture with Game Play Network, a digital platform that lets the majority of U.S. citizens bet money on casino style games and sports-centric content like fantasy drafts.
The goal is to create talent-driven content and licensing opportunities for Range’s brand and celebrity clients. Range will also work with Gpn to develop new marketing strategies and player capabilities, as well as to further enhance the overall player experience.
“This groundbreaking announcement unites Range’s world class talent and brand expertise with Game Play Network’s unparalleled technology and market access. As partners, we are distinctly situated to shape the future in social gaming entertainment,” says Peter Micelli, Range’s CEO and co-founder.
Jack Whigham,...
- 11/3/2021
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Range Media Partners, which manages stars including Emilia Clarke, Bradley Cooper, Gabrielle Union and Michael Fassbender, is getting into the audio space.
The company has signed a partnership with fast-growing podcast company Audio Up that will include Range helping Audio Up adapt its slate of podcasts, which include Anthony Anderson-fronted Sonic Leap and James Ellroy’s Hollywood Death Trip, for film and television. The deal will also see Audio Up create branded audio content for Range clients.
It is the latest tie-up between a podcast company and a TV/film firm, following the likes of Chernin Entertainment and Spotify signing a first-look deal.
Range will package talent and other content opportunities for Audio Up’s IP and will be designated as the studio or executive producer on all Audio Up projects across film, tv, or non-scripted television series and features.
The two companies have entered into early discussions...
The company has signed a partnership with fast-growing podcast company Audio Up that will include Range helping Audio Up adapt its slate of podcasts, which include Anthony Anderson-fronted Sonic Leap and James Ellroy’s Hollywood Death Trip, for film and television. The deal will also see Audio Up create branded audio content for Range clients.
It is the latest tie-up between a podcast company and a TV/film firm, following the likes of Chernin Entertainment and Spotify signing a first-look deal.
Range will package talent and other content opportunities for Audio Up’s IP and will be designated as the studio or executive producer on all Audio Up projects across film, tv, or non-scripted television series and features.
The two companies have entered into early discussions...
- 10/18/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Range Media Partners has launched a new international division and hired Oliver Riddle as head of international content.
As head, Riddle will oversee the development and production of Range Media’s international film and television content, with an initial focus on content originating out of Europe. Riddle will join Range manager and producer Caroline Marques in London.
Riddle previously oversaw strategy and operations for Netflix’s international original film team, where he worked closely with David Kosse to build a slate of high-budget European films including Paolo Sorrentino’s “Hand of God.” Prior to his international work, Riddle worked for Netflix’s English language original film team in Los Angeles, providing strategic and financial counsel for Scott Stuber’s feature film slate.
“I’m thrilled to be joining Pete, Rich and the rest of the Range team,” said Riddle. “It was clear from our first conversations that they share my...
As head, Riddle will oversee the development and production of Range Media’s international film and television content, with an initial focus on content originating out of Europe. Riddle will join Range manager and producer Caroline Marques in London.
Riddle previously oversaw strategy and operations for Netflix’s international original film team, where he worked closely with David Kosse to build a slate of high-budget European films including Paolo Sorrentino’s “Hand of God.” Prior to his international work, Riddle worked for Netflix’s English language original film team in Los Angeles, providing strategic and financial counsel for Scott Stuber’s feature film slate.
“I’m thrilled to be joining Pete, Rich and the rest of the Range team,” said Riddle. “It was clear from our first conversations that they share my...
- 10/12/2021
- by Katie Song
- Variety Film + TV
A team of agencies led by Hollywood shop Range Media Partners is stepping up to the plate to make the New York Mets relevant to younger, diverse audiences.
Steve and Alexandra Cohen, who purchased the team last year in a deal valued at $2.4 billion, made the move to bring their “progressive vision for the organization to life as it intersects with popular culture and innovative digital technologies,” an announcement said.
Range is working with agencies 4Front and Base Design to update the Mets brand identity – which may include visuals surrounding the team, outdoor advertising and digital presence. The marketing reboot will also aim to make the Mets’ home turf, Citi Field, not only as a sports destination, but a hub for culture and entertainment.
“We have an enormous opportunity in front of us — to both excite existing fans and entice new ones with the additional expertise and resources of Range,...
Steve and Alexandra Cohen, who purchased the team last year in a deal valued at $2.4 billion, made the move to bring their “progressive vision for the organization to life as it intersects with popular culture and innovative digital technologies,” an announcement said.
Range is working with agencies 4Front and Base Design to update the Mets brand identity – which may include visuals surrounding the team, outdoor advertising and digital presence. The marketing reboot will also aim to make the Mets’ home turf, Citi Field, not only as a sports destination, but a hub for culture and entertainment.
“We have an enormous opportunity in front of us — to both excite existing fans and entice new ones with the additional expertise and resources of Range,...
- 9/28/2021
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Bert Marcus, founder and CEO of Bert Marcus Productions, has signed with Range Media Partners. Marcus will be represented by a core team consisting of Matt Graham, Cj Cook, Tyler Henry, Ben Grayson and Rich Cook.
“Bert is a creative engine, his mind works at a million miles an hour,” Graham, Range Media Partners’ co-founder and managing partner, said announcing the signing. “He is always finding the most interesting way into a world as a storyteller which is what has made his films so sticky. We believe his creativity, experience and resources are a force multiplier for us on the unscripted side of our business. We are beyond thrilled to collaborate with such a talent.”
Bert Marcus Productions creates and oversees unscripted feature film and television content, while Bert Marcus Film is the company’s scripted feature film and television arm, working toward the company’s overall mission to “craft distinctive,...
“Bert is a creative engine, his mind works at a million miles an hour,” Graham, Range Media Partners’ co-founder and managing partner, said announcing the signing. “He is always finding the most interesting way into a world as a storyteller which is what has made his films so sticky. We believe his creativity, experience and resources are a force multiplier for us on the unscripted side of our business. We are beyond thrilled to collaborate with such a talent.”
Bert Marcus Productions creates and oversees unscripted feature film and television content, while Bert Marcus Film is the company’s scripted feature film and television arm, working toward the company’s overall mission to “craft distinctive,...
- 7/14/2021
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Michael Hirst, creator of Vikings and The Tudors, is taking on one of the most epic and tragic events of World War II, the 872-day blockade of Leningrad.
He will write the series, an adaptation of Anna Reid’s 2011 book Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944, which draws mostly upon personal diaries. The project is a co-production between Range Media Partners and Svetlana and Alexey Kuzmichev’s Orangery Productions.
One of modern history’s most harrowing stories, the Siege of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) is one of the deadliest blockades of a city in human history. Nazi troops encircled the city two and a half months into the invasion of the Soviet Union at the height of the war, trapping everyone inside with no food, no resources, and no escape. Nearly a million civilians died – mostly from starvation.
But while this is a story about brutality and profound suffering,...
He will write the series, an adaptation of Anna Reid’s 2011 book Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944, which draws mostly upon personal diaries. The project is a co-production between Range Media Partners and Svetlana and Alexey Kuzmichev’s Orangery Productions.
One of modern history’s most harrowing stories, the Siege of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) is one of the deadliest blockades of a city in human history. Nazi troops encircled the city two and a half months into the invasion of the Soviet Union at the height of the war, trapping everyone inside with no food, no resources, and no escape. Nearly a million civilians died – mostly from starvation.
But while this is a story about brutality and profound suffering,...
- 6/30/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Anna Cobb has inked with Range Media Partners, and has also joined Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All which is currently shooting in the Ohio tri-state area.
The 18-year old New York-based actress won the role after a nationwide search. She broke out earlier this year in the Sundance movie We’re All Going to the World’s Fair which tells the story of Casey, who alone in her attic bedroom, becomes immersed in an online role-playing horror game, wherein she begins to document the changes that may or may not be happening to her.
Cobb joins the previously announced cast of Bones and All Timothee Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, Taylor Russell, Mark Rylance, Andre Holland, Jessica Harper, Chloe Sevigny, Francesca Scorsese and David Gordon Green. The pic is an adaptation of the Camille DeAngelis novel scripted by Guadagnino’s long-time collaborator David Kajganich.
Utopia is set to release We’re All...
The 18-year old New York-based actress won the role after a nationwide search. She broke out earlier this year in the Sundance movie We’re All Going to the World’s Fair which tells the story of Casey, who alone in her attic bedroom, becomes immersed in an online role-playing horror game, wherein she begins to document the changes that may or may not be happening to her.
Cobb joins the previously announced cast of Bones and All Timothee Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, Taylor Russell, Mark Rylance, Andre Holland, Jessica Harper, Chloe Sevigny, Francesca Scorsese and David Gordon Green. The pic is an adaptation of the Camille DeAngelis novel scripted by Guadagnino’s long-time collaborator David Kajganich.
Utopia is set to release We’re All...
- 6/24/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Cult science fiction publication taps Tommy Coriale to lead studio
Heavy Metal Magazine, the American science fiction and fantasy publication known for its dark, dystopian, steampunk and even explicit comic style, is looking to expand into the film and TV production space.
Heavy Metal will work with Range Media Partners to co-produce projects based on its existing IP dating back 44 years. The magazine’s Moebius-style artwork, pioneered by artist Jean Giraud, has inspired science fiction film classics like “Blade Runner,” the original “Alien” graphic novel, “Fifth Element” and, of course, its namesake, the 1981 animated cult film “Heavy Metal.”
To lead the film and TV division, Heavy Metal has tapped Tommy Coriale as its president and head of studio. Heavy Metal will continue to be led and operated by CEO Matthew Medney and “chief creative overlord” and publisher David Erwin.
Coriale is the former head of Diga Studios and has worked...
Heavy Metal Magazine, the American science fiction and fantasy publication known for its dark, dystopian, steampunk and even explicit comic style, is looking to expand into the film and TV production space.
Heavy Metal will work with Range Media Partners to co-produce projects based on its existing IP dating back 44 years. The magazine’s Moebius-style artwork, pioneered by artist Jean Giraud, has inspired science fiction film classics like “Blade Runner,” the original “Alien” graphic novel, “Fifth Element” and, of course, its namesake, the 1981 animated cult film “Heavy Metal.”
To lead the film and TV division, Heavy Metal has tapped Tommy Coriale as its president and head of studio. Heavy Metal will continue to be led and operated by CEO Matthew Medney and “chief creative overlord” and publisher David Erwin.
Coriale is the former head of Diga Studios and has worked...
- 4/27/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Heavy Metal magazine, the influential sci-fi and fantasy publisher, has set a significant intellectual property deal with Range Media Partners.
In partnering with the upstart management company, Heavy Metal hopes to leverage its library for film and TV projects. The publisher is credited as an inspiration behind “Blade Runner” and “The Fifth Element,” and also authored the official “Alien” graphic novel beginning in 1979.
In step with the announcement, Heavy Metal has named Tommy Coriale as president and studio head. Coriale comes from Diga Studios and will oversee development, packaging, deals and production for Heavy Metal. He will serve as executive producer on scripted, unscripted, podcasting and publishing.
“I am still pinching myself that Heavy Metal is the brand I get to help shepherd off the page. Joining forces with Matt and David is a dream come true, and now with Range by our side as both partners and facilitators we are poised to make history,...
In partnering with the upstart management company, Heavy Metal hopes to leverage its library for film and TV projects. The publisher is credited as an inspiration behind “Blade Runner” and “The Fifth Element,” and also authored the official “Alien” graphic novel beginning in 1979.
In step with the announcement, Heavy Metal has named Tommy Coriale as president and studio head. Coriale comes from Diga Studios and will oversee development, packaging, deals and production for Heavy Metal. He will serve as executive producer on scripted, unscripted, podcasting and publishing.
“I am still pinching myself that Heavy Metal is the brand I get to help shepherd off the page. Joining forces with Matt and David is a dream come true, and now with Range by our side as both partners and facilitators we are poised to make history,...
- 4/27/2021
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Range Media Partners and Heavy Metal Magazine are partnering up to exploit the film and TV potential of IP from the iconic sci-fi/fantasy illustrated magazine brand. Heavy Metal will co-produce projects with Range Media.
Founded in 1977, Heavy Metal generated a self-titled 1981 animated hard R-rated cult film with eroticism and violence, and stories from the magazine over the years informed such films as Blade Runner (Philip K. Dick first published Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? in the mag) and The Fifth Element. The magazine published the original Alien Graphic Novel when the original film was released in 1979.
Heavy Metal has hired Tommy Coriale as President and Head of Studio, to spearhead the launch of its film and television divisions. Coriale is the former Head of Diga Studios who oversaw all aspects of that company’s content creation in scripted, unscripted, podcast and publishing. Heavy Metal’s CEO is Matthew Medney,...
Founded in 1977, Heavy Metal generated a self-titled 1981 animated hard R-rated cult film with eroticism and violence, and stories from the magazine over the years informed such films as Blade Runner (Philip K. Dick first published Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? in the mag) and The Fifth Element. The magazine published the original Alien Graphic Novel when the original film was released in 1979.
Heavy Metal has hired Tommy Coriale as President and Head of Studio, to spearhead the launch of its film and television divisions. Coriale is the former Head of Diga Studios who oversaw all aspects of that company’s content creation in scripted, unscripted, podcast and publishing. Heavy Metal’s CEO is Matthew Medney,...
- 4/27/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Range Media Partners and Legendary Television have teamed to develop and co-finance a series adaptation of the Ken Follett novel “The Evening and the Morning.”
The book is a prequel to Follett’s 1989 novel “The Pillars of the Earth.” It is set in 997 Ce, the end of the Dark Ages. England is facing attacks from the Welsh in the west and the Vikings in the east. Those in power bend justice according to their will, regardless of ordinary people and often in conflict with the king. Without a clear rule of law, chaos reigns. In these turbulent times, three characters find their lives intertwined: A young boatbuilder’s life is turned upside down when the only home he’s ever known is raided by Vikings, forcing him and his family to move and start their lives anew in a small hamlet where he does not fit in; A Norman noblewoman marries for love,...
The book is a prequel to Follett’s 1989 novel “The Pillars of the Earth.” It is set in 997 Ce, the end of the Dark Ages. England is facing attacks from the Welsh in the west and the Vikings in the east. Those in power bend justice according to their will, regardless of ordinary people and often in conflict with the king. Without a clear rule of law, chaos reigns. In these turbulent times, three characters find their lives intertwined: A young boatbuilder’s life is turned upside down when the only home he’s ever known is raided by Vikings, forcing him and his family to move and start their lives anew in a small hamlet where he does not fit in; A Norman noblewoman marries for love,...
- 3/30/2021
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
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