Chloe Bailey Boards AGC Studio’s Wall Street Drama ‘Midas Touch’
Musician and actor Chloe Bailey (Grown-ish) has signed on to star in the Wall Street drama Midas Touch from AGC Studios. The flick follows the true story of Lauren Simmons, the youngest equity trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and only the second African American woman to hold that position. Bailey will star as Simmons in the pic, which will be directed by Numa Perrier (The Perfect Find). Simmons is an executive producer on the film, as are AGC’s Stuart Ford, Lourdes Diaz, and Glendon Palmer. CAA negotiated on behalf of Bailey and AGC’s SVP of Legal & Business Affairs, Anant Tamirisa, and Palmer negotiated on behalf of AGC.
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Musician and actor Chloe Bailey (Grown-ish) has signed on to star in the Wall Street drama Midas Touch from AGC Studios. The flick follows the true story of Lauren Simmons, the youngest equity trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and only the second African American woman to hold that position. Bailey will star as Simmons in the pic, which will be directed by Numa Perrier (The Perfect Find). Simmons is an executive producer on the film, as are AGC’s Stuart Ford, Lourdes Diaz, and Glendon Palmer. CAA negotiated on behalf of Bailey and AGC’s SVP of Legal & Business Affairs, Anant Tamirisa, and Palmer negotiated on behalf of AGC.
‘The Pact’ Producer Little Door Expands With Drama Hires
The Welsh indie behind BBC drama The Pact, Little Door Productions, has hired Sherlock and Baker...
- 11/15/2022
- by Zac Ntim, Jesse Whittock and Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Numa Perrier (Jezebel) is directing story inspired by trailblazer Lauren Simmons.
AGC Studios has attached rising star Chloe Bailey to play the lead in its Wall Street drama Midas Touch based on the true story of ground-breaking Black Wall Street trader Lauren Simmons.
Simmons made history in 2017 when she became at 22 the youngest equity trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and only the second African American woman to hold the position.
Numa Perrier (Jezebel) is directing Midas Touch based on Simmons’ life rights optioned by AGC, and she co-wrote the screenplay with Amber Dupre (Loki). Perrier...
AGC Studios has attached rising star Chloe Bailey to play the lead in its Wall Street drama Midas Touch based on the true story of ground-breaking Black Wall Street trader Lauren Simmons.
Simmons made history in 2017 when she became at 22 the youngest equity trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and only the second African American woman to hold the position.
Numa Perrier (Jezebel) is directing Midas Touch based on Simmons’ life rights optioned by AGC, and she co-wrote the screenplay with Amber Dupre (Loki). Perrier...
- 11/10/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Sean “Diddy” Combs will host the 2022 Billboard Music Awards, NBC and MRC announced Friday. The BBMAs will be held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on May 15 and will be broadcast at 8 p.m. Et/5 p.m. Pt on NBC, in addition to streaming live on Peacock.
“This will be unlike any awards show – I’m bringing the love and setting the frequency at an all-time high,” said Combs. “The Billboard Music Awards truly represent the artists and where music is today, so I’m excited to curate the biggest live performances and surprises. The world has to tune in to see.”
This year’s show marks 25 years since Combs, an accomplished producer, designer and philanthropist, won his first Bbma in 1997, for his album “No Way Out.” Combs is currently working on his seventh studio album, more than 15 years since his last solo album, “Press Play” debuted at No.
“This will be unlike any awards show – I’m bringing the love and setting the frequency at an all-time high,” said Combs. “The Billboard Music Awards truly represent the artists and where music is today, so I’m excited to curate the biggest live performances and surprises. The world has to tune in to see.”
This year’s show marks 25 years since Combs, an accomplished producer, designer and philanthropist, won his first Bbma in 1997, for his album “No Way Out.” Combs is currently working on his seventh studio album, more than 15 years since his last solo album, “Press Play” debuted at No.
- 4/22/2022
- by Sasha Urban and Wilson Chapman
- Variety Film + TV
WandaVision writer Chuck Hayward is penning comedy Brothers With No Game based on the popular UK YouTube series for Stuart Ford’s AGC Television.
Hayward, whose other credits include Ted Lasso and Dear White People, will write and showrun the series that is not yet attached to a network about four childhood friends whose social and romantic dilemmas throw them into a “quarter-life crisis.”
With comedy and heart, these twenty-somethings come to terms with the responsibilities and problems that revolve around work, family, friendship and most notably – women.
AGC is producing and Ford will exec produce alongside Lourdes Diaz, Glendon Palmer, Hayward, Leon Mayne and Paul Samuel. The latter two are co-execs of the UK series.
Hayward is represented by APA, and Mikhail Nayfield at Heroes and Villains Entertainment, with Diaz, Lynch and SVP of Legal & Business Affairs Anant Tamirisa representing AGC Television.
Alongside Gaspin Media, AGC is also behind...
Hayward, whose other credits include Ted Lasso and Dear White People, will write and showrun the series that is not yet attached to a network about four childhood friends whose social and romantic dilemmas throw them into a “quarter-life crisis.”
With comedy and heart, these twenty-somethings come to terms with the responsibilities and problems that revolve around work, family, friendship and most notably – women.
AGC is producing and Ford will exec produce alongside Lourdes Diaz, Glendon Palmer, Hayward, Leon Mayne and Paul Samuel. The latter two are co-execs of the UK series.
Hayward is represented by APA, and Mikhail Nayfield at Heroes and Villains Entertainment, with Diaz, Lynch and SVP of Legal & Business Affairs Anant Tamirisa representing AGC Television.
Alongside Gaspin Media, AGC is also behind...
- 4/22/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
AGC Television, the TV wing of Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios, is optioning a trio of books written by American author Jayne Allen.
The first two novels in the series – Black Girls Must Die Exhausted and Black Girls Must Be Magic – will be followed by an as-yet unnamed third book in the trilogy.
A search for a writer is set to get underway. Allen will be an executive producer on the series, as will AGC’s Ford, Television President Lourdes Diaz, EVP of TV and Film Glendon Palmer, and Creative Executive Lorelle Lynch.
The books follow Tabitha Walker, a woman whose checklist is almost complete: A good job, down payment for a house, a promising relationship, and even a standing Saturday appointment with a reliable hairstylist. Tabitha is on the precipice of attaining the aspirational, stable life of her dreams when she’s given an unexpected health diagnosis that gives...
The first two novels in the series – Black Girls Must Die Exhausted and Black Girls Must Be Magic – will be followed by an as-yet unnamed third book in the trilogy.
A search for a writer is set to get underway. Allen will be an executive producer on the series, as will AGC’s Ford, Television President Lourdes Diaz, EVP of TV and Film Glendon Palmer, and Creative Executive Lorelle Lynch.
The books follow Tabitha Walker, a woman whose checklist is almost complete: A good job, down payment for a house, a promising relationship, and even a standing Saturday appointment with a reliable hairstylist. Tabitha is on the precipice of attaining the aspirational, stable life of her dreams when she’s given an unexpected health diagnosis that gives...
- 4/19/2022
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios has named industry veteran Jill Jones as EVP of Marketing and Publicity.
Jones has more than 20 years’ experience in marketing campaigns, festival, market and launch strategies. She was most recently in-house at Mister Smith Entertainment, where she worked on more than 50 feature film campaigns. Prior to then she was SVP then EVP International Marketing and Publicity at Summit and Lionsgate respectively in Los Angeles, working on the Twilight franchise and Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life.
The company has also promoted two of its founding executives: Glendon Palmer becomes EVP of Production, while Frank Prugo becomes EVP of Technical Operations and Post-Production.
Elsewhere, Bonnie Voland has re-upped as AGC’s Head of Worldwide Marketing and Publicity.
“As AGC moves towards even more prodigious levels of film and television output, it’s vitally important that we maintain a bedrock of heavyweight executives to help steer the ship,...
Jones has more than 20 years’ experience in marketing campaigns, festival, market and launch strategies. She was most recently in-house at Mister Smith Entertainment, where she worked on more than 50 feature film campaigns. Prior to then she was SVP then EVP International Marketing and Publicity at Summit and Lionsgate respectively in Los Angeles, working on the Twilight franchise and Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life.
The company has also promoted two of its founding executives: Glendon Palmer becomes EVP of Production, while Frank Prugo becomes EVP of Technical Operations and Post-Production.
Elsewhere, Bonnie Voland has re-upped as AGC’s Head of Worldwide Marketing and Publicity.
“As AGC moves towards even more prodigious levels of film and television output, it’s vitally important that we maintain a bedrock of heavyweight executives to help steer the ship,...
- 4/13/2022
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Recognition for founding executives Glendon Palmer, Frank Prugo, Bonnie Voland.
AGC Studios has expanded its marketing team with the hire of industry veteran Jill Jones and has also announced recognition for several founding executives.
Jones joins as EVP of marketing and publicity. She most recently served as EVP marketing and communications at Mister Smith in the Paris office where she worked on more than 50 feature campaigns in collaboration with partners at Disney, Universal, Paramount, Netflix, Apple and scores of international distributors.
Prior to Mister Smith Jones was first SVP then EVP of international marketing and publicity at Summit and Lionsgate respectively in Los Angeles,...
AGC Studios has expanded its marketing team with the hire of industry veteran Jill Jones and has also announced recognition for several founding executives.
Jones joins as EVP of marketing and publicity. She most recently served as EVP marketing and communications at Mister Smith in the Paris office where she worked on more than 50 feature campaigns in collaboration with partners at Disney, Universal, Paramount, Netflix, Apple and scores of international distributors.
Prior to Mister Smith Jones was first SVP then EVP of international marketing and publicity at Summit and Lionsgate respectively in Los Angeles,...
- 4/13/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: La La Anthony (Power), Aisha Hinds (Underground) and Janet Hubert (The Last O.G.) have joined the cast of The Perfect Find.
In Netflix’s romantic comedy, they’ll star opposite previously announced cast members Gabrielle Union, Keith Powers and Gina Torres. The new cast members’ roles have not yet been disclosed.
The film, based on the novel by Tia Williams, centers on a 40-year-old woman with everything on the line—including a high-stakes career, ticking biological clock and bank account—watching to see if she’s willing to risk it all for an intensely lusty secret romance with the one person who could destroy her comeback for good.
Numa Perrier is directing, from a script she wrote with Leigh Davenport. Producers on the project are Tommy Oliver and Codie Elaine Oliver for Confluential Films; Gabrielle Union for I’ll Have Another; Glendon Palmer for AGC Studios, and Jeff Morrone.
In Netflix’s romantic comedy, they’ll star opposite previously announced cast members Gabrielle Union, Keith Powers and Gina Torres. The new cast members’ roles have not yet been disclosed.
The film, based on the novel by Tia Williams, centers on a 40-year-old woman with everything on the line—including a high-stakes career, ticking biological clock and bank account—watching to see if she’s willing to risk it all for an intensely lusty secret romance with the one person who could destroy her comeback for good.
Numa Perrier is directing, from a script she wrote with Leigh Davenport. Producers on the project are Tommy Oliver and Codie Elaine Oliver for Confluential Films; Gabrielle Union for I’ll Have Another; Glendon Palmer for AGC Studios, and Jeff Morrone.
- 6/21/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: 9-1-1: Lone Star and Westworld actress Gina Torres has boarded the Gabrielle Union and Keith Powers Netflix romantic comedy feature The Perfect Find.
I hear she’ll be stepping in for Niecy Nash who has departed the project due to a scheduling conflict.
The Leigh Davenport and Numa Perrier scripted movie, based on the Tia Williams novel, follows Will, a 40-year-old woman with everything on the line: Her high-stakes career, ticking biological clock, bank account as she risks it all for an intensely lusty secret romance with the one person who could destroy her comeback. Perrier also directs.
Producers are Tommy Oliver and Codie Elaine Oliver for Confluential Films; Union for I’ll Have Another; Jeff Morrone; and Glendon Palmer for AGC Studios. EPs are Stuart Ford, Linda McDonough, and Miguel Palos for AGC Studios; Holly Shakoor Fleischer for I’ll Have Another; Mel Jones for Confluential Films; and Davenport.
I hear she’ll be stepping in for Niecy Nash who has departed the project due to a scheduling conflict.
The Leigh Davenport and Numa Perrier scripted movie, based on the Tia Williams novel, follows Will, a 40-year-old woman with everything on the line: Her high-stakes career, ticking biological clock, bank account as she risks it all for an intensely lusty secret romance with the one person who could destroy her comeback. Perrier also directs.
Producers are Tommy Oliver and Codie Elaine Oliver for Confluential Films; Union for I’ll Have Another; Jeff Morrone; and Glendon Palmer for AGC Studios. EPs are Stuart Ford, Linda McDonough, and Miguel Palos for AGC Studios; Holly Shakoor Fleischer for I’ll Have Another; Mel Jones for Confluential Films; and Davenport.
- 6/18/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Niecy Nash has signed on to star alongside Gabrielle Union and Keith Powers, in the Numa Perrier-directed romantic comedy, The Perfect Find. The Netflix film is based on the 2016 book by Tia Williams.
Written by Leigh Davenport, the plot follows Jenna Jones Union, who is hopeful that her new job in beauty journalism will be a fresh start in her life. She soon learns that her new boss, Darcy, is her frenemy. Jenna starts a relationship with the company’s videographer, Eric, and things get complicated when she learns he’s Darcy’s son.
Union is producing the pic via her I’ll Have Another banner with Jeff Morrone, Tommy Oliver, and Codie Elaine Oliver of Confluential Films, and AGC Studios. Stuart Ford and Glendon Palmer will serve as exec producers on behalf of AGC with I’ll Have Another’s Holly Shakoor Fleischer.
Nash is returning to...
Written by Leigh Davenport, the plot follows Jenna Jones Union, who is hopeful that her new job in beauty journalism will be a fresh start in her life. She soon learns that her new boss, Darcy, is her frenemy. Jenna starts a relationship with the company’s videographer, Eric, and things get complicated when she learns he’s Darcy’s son.
Union is producing the pic via her I’ll Have Another banner with Jeff Morrone, Tommy Oliver, and Codie Elaine Oliver of Confluential Films, and AGC Studios. Stuart Ford and Glendon Palmer will serve as exec producers on behalf of AGC with I’ll Have Another’s Holly Shakoor Fleischer.
Nash is returning to...
- 3/2/2021
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Winston Duke is in talks to star as the renowned political activist Marcus Garvey in “Marked Man,” a political actioner package that Amazon Studios has picked up, according to an individual with knowledge of the project.
Andrew Dosunmu will direct and executive produce the film. Jesse Williams and DeWanda Wise (“She’s Gotta Have It”) are also in talks to star.
“Marked Man” is partly inspired by Colin Grant’s biography, “Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey,” who was a key figure of Black nationalism in the 20th century. The studio also holds rights to the book.
Acclaimed playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah wrote the screenplay, which Esther Douglas developed with the support of the BFI Film Fund. He will also serve as an executive producer.
Set in the 1920s, “Marked Man” follows a young black man who joins J. Edgar Hoover’s Bureau of Investigation, and then...
Andrew Dosunmu will direct and executive produce the film. Jesse Williams and DeWanda Wise (“She’s Gotta Have It”) are also in talks to star.
“Marked Man” is partly inspired by Colin Grant’s biography, “Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey,” who was a key figure of Black nationalism in the 20th century. The studio also holds rights to the book.
Acclaimed playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah wrote the screenplay, which Esther Douglas developed with the support of the BFI Film Fund. He will also serve as an executive producer.
Set in the 1920s, “Marked Man” follows a young black man who joins J. Edgar Hoover’s Bureau of Investigation, and then...
- 2/26/2021
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Amazon Studios has set Winston Duke (Black Panther) to star as Marcus Garvey in Marked Man. Garvey was a political activist who was a key figure of Black nationalism in the 20th century. Andrew Dosunmu will direct the drama, and Jesse Williams (Little Fires Everywhere) and DeWanda Wise (She’s Gotta Have It) are in talks to star.
The film is partly inspired by the Colin Grant biography Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey. The script is by acclaimed playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah, which Esther Douglas developed with the support of the BFI Film Fund.
Mark Gordon (Ray Donovan) of Mark Gordon Pictures is producing with Jackson Pictures’ Matt Jackson (The Trial of the Chicago 7), Glendon Palmer and Douglas. Robert Teitel, Kwei-Armah and Jackson Pictures’ Joanne Lee will be executive producers, along with Kwei-Armah.
Set in the 1920s, Marked Man follows a young black man...
The film is partly inspired by the Colin Grant biography Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey. The script is by acclaimed playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah, which Esther Douglas developed with the support of the BFI Film Fund.
Mark Gordon (Ray Donovan) of Mark Gordon Pictures is producing with Jackson Pictures’ Matt Jackson (The Trial of the Chicago 7), Glendon Palmer and Douglas. Robert Teitel, Kwei-Armah and Jackson Pictures’ Joanne Lee will be executive producers, along with Kwei-Armah.
Set in the 1920s, Marked Man follows a young black man...
- 2/26/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Keith Powers will co-star opposite Gabrielle Union in The Perfect Find, the Netflix/AGC Studios romantic comedy directed by Jezebel helmer Numa Perrier.
The pic is based on the 2016 book by Tia Williams bestseller, which was adapted for the screen by Leigh Davenport. Union stars as Jenna Jones, who is hopeful that her new job in beauty journalism will be a fresh start in her life. She soon learns that her new boss, Darcy, is her frenemy. Jenna starts a relationship with the company’s videographer, Eric, and things get complicated when she learns he’s Darcy’s son.
Union is also producing the film under her I’ll Have Another banner along with Jeff Morrone, Tommy Oliver, and Codie Elaine Oliver of Confluential Films. AGC’s Stuart Ford and Glendon Palmer will serve as exec producers with I’ll...
The pic is based on the 2016 book by Tia Williams bestseller, which was adapted for the screen by Leigh Davenport. Union stars as Jenna Jones, who is hopeful that her new job in beauty journalism will be a fresh start in her life. She soon learns that her new boss, Darcy, is her frenemy. Jenna starts a relationship with the company’s videographer, Eric, and things get complicated when she learns he’s Darcy’s son.
Union is also producing the film under her I’ll Have Another banner along with Jeff Morrone, Tommy Oliver, and Codie Elaine Oliver of Confluential Films. AGC’s Stuart Ford and Glendon Palmer will serve as exec producers with I’ll...
- 12/16/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: A serious incident took place this week on the set of AGC Studios’ pic Geechee in the Dominican Republic when police opened fire on a convoy of cars containing crew.
One unidentified international crew member was shot several times, but only suffered minor injuries and has now left hospital and been flown home. No one else was seriously injured.
Our sources tell us that the incident took place on Wednesday evening (September 2). In what appears to have been a case of mistaken identity, undercover local drug enforcement agents pursued and then opened fire on a group of cars containing film crew who were on a location recce.
The initial incident took place in the vicinity of Lantica Pinewood Dominican Republic Studios, where the production is housed. The pursuit continued to the studios where a number of crew were prepping for the day’s filming; they were then held at...
One unidentified international crew member was shot several times, but only suffered minor injuries and has now left hospital and been flown home. No one else was seriously injured.
Our sources tell us that the incident took place on Wednesday evening (September 2). In what appears to have been a case of mistaken identity, undercover local drug enforcement agents pursued and then opened fire on a group of cars containing film crew who were on a location recce.
The initial incident took place in the vicinity of Lantica Pinewood Dominican Republic Studios, where the production is housed. The pursuit continued to the studios where a number of crew were prepping for the day’s filming; they were then held at...
- 9/6/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Cameras are rolling on Geechee, the supernatural thriller starring Andrea Riseborough that was suspended prior to principal photography back in March due to the pandemic.
Cast on the project has also rounded out, with Amin Joseph, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Antoinette Crowe-Legacy, Gavin Warren, Victoria Hill, Starletta DuPois, and Judith Scott all joining the AGC Studios pic. It will shoot at Lantica Pinewood in the Dominican Republic.
DuBois Ashong (Where The Water Runs) is helming and wrote the screenplay. Riseborough is starring as Wren, a successful New York scientist who decides to leave the city with her son to start life over in the remote Sea Islands off the Atlantic Coast. She quickly falls in love with the land and the people on the secluded island, but soon her world starts to unravel as the souls of the subjugated begin to haunt her dreams and her waking life.
Jamie Foxx and Datari Turner Productions...
Cast on the project has also rounded out, with Amin Joseph, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Antoinette Crowe-Legacy, Gavin Warren, Victoria Hill, Starletta DuPois, and Judith Scott all joining the AGC Studios pic. It will shoot at Lantica Pinewood in the Dominican Republic.
DuBois Ashong (Where The Water Runs) is helming and wrote the screenplay. Riseborough is starring as Wren, a successful New York scientist who decides to leave the city with her son to start life over in the remote Sea Islands off the Atlantic Coast. She quickly falls in love with the land and the people on the secluded island, but soon her world starts to unravel as the souls of the subjugated begin to haunt her dreams and her waking life.
Jamie Foxx and Datari Turner Productions...
- 8/19/2020
- by Tom Grater and Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
DuBois Ashong directs, wrote screenplay.
Production started in the Dominican Republic this week on AGC Studios’ supernatural thriller Geechee starring Andrea Riseborough.
The film resumes principal photography at Lantica Pinewood on the Caribbean island nation after the start was postponed by the pandemic in March.
DuBois Ashong is directing the story about a clash of cultures when the Gullah Geechee people in the South Carolina Sea Islands encounter gentrification, cultural appropriation, and the legacy of slavery.
Rounding out the cast are Amin Joseph, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Antoinette Crowe-Legacy, Gavin Warren, Victoria Hill, Starletta DuPois and Judith Scott.
Riseborough’s credits include Oblivion,...
Production started in the Dominican Republic this week on AGC Studios’ supernatural thriller Geechee starring Andrea Riseborough.
The film resumes principal photography at Lantica Pinewood on the Caribbean island nation after the start was postponed by the pandemic in March.
DuBois Ashong is directing the story about a clash of cultures when the Gullah Geechee people in the South Carolina Sea Islands encounter gentrification, cultural appropriation, and the legacy of slavery.
Rounding out the cast are Amin Joseph, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Antoinette Crowe-Legacy, Gavin Warren, Victoria Hill, Starletta DuPois and Judith Scott.
Riseborough’s credits include Oblivion,...
- 8/19/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Gabrielle Union Romantic Comedy ‘The Perfect Find’ Lands At Netflix; Numa Perrier Attached To Direct
Exclusive: We hear that the Gabrielle Union Agc Studios movie The Perfect Find has landed at Netflix and that Jezebel filmmaker Numa Perrier is attached to direct the feature adaptation of the Tia Williams bestseller.
Previously announced, Union stars and will also produce The Perfect Find via her production company I’ll Have Another, which Agc is financing and producing. The Bring It On and Breaking In star plays Jenna Jones, a woman hopeful that her new job in beauty journalism will rep a fresh start in her life. She soon learns that her new boss, Darcy, is her frenemy. Jenna starts a relationship with the company’s videographer, Eric, and things get complicated when she learns he’s Darcy’s son.
Leigh Davenport adapted Williams’ book. Jeff Morrone, Tommy Oliver and Codie Elaine Oliver of Confluential Films are also producing. Agc’s Stuart Ford and Glendon Palmer are EPs...
Previously announced, Union stars and will also produce The Perfect Find via her production company I’ll Have Another, which Agc is financing and producing. The Bring It On and Breaking In star plays Jenna Jones, a woman hopeful that her new job in beauty journalism will rep a fresh start in her life. She soon learns that her new boss, Darcy, is her frenemy. Jenna starts a relationship with the company’s videographer, Eric, and things get complicated when she learns he’s Darcy’s son.
Leigh Davenport adapted Williams’ book. Jeff Morrone, Tommy Oliver and Codie Elaine Oliver of Confluential Films are also producing. Agc’s Stuart Ford and Glendon Palmer are EPs...
- 6/12/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka and Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Shoot had been scheduled for Dominican Republic.
Agc Studios has suspended the start of production in Dominican Republic on its supernatural thriller Geechee starring Andrea Riseborough amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Jamie Foxx and Datari Turner are producing along with Ford and Agc’s head of film Linda McDonough and Glendon Palmer. Andrea Scarso and Jamie Jessop of Ingenious Media, and Ricardo del Rio are onboard as executive producers. Agc Studios is financing in association with Ingenious Media.
Dubois Ashong is due to his writing and directing feature debut on the story about a New York scientist who relocates with her...
Agc Studios has suspended the start of production in Dominican Republic on its supernatural thriller Geechee starring Andrea Riseborough amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Jamie Foxx and Datari Turner are producing along with Ford and Agc’s head of film Linda McDonough and Glendon Palmer. Andrea Scarso and Jamie Jessop of Ingenious Media, and Ricardo del Rio are onboard as executive producers. Agc Studios is financing in association with Ingenious Media.
Dubois Ashong is due to his writing and directing feature debut on the story about a New York scientist who relocates with her...
- 3/16/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
In today’s film news roundup, a pair of long-running film festivals in San Francisco and Cleveland are moving ahead and Warner Bros.’ Fred Hampton biopic gets additional backing and Dule Hill gets cast.
Film Festivals
The San Francisco International Film Festival has set the documentary “Boys State” as its opening night film for April 8 at the Castro Theatre.
“Boys State,” directed by Jesse Moss and Amanda McBain, follows a group of Texas teens selected to participate in the program. The film won the U.S. documentary competition at the Sundance Film Festival in January. Moss and McBaine will be in attendance at the San Francisco event.
The festival, which is the longest running film festival in North America, had announced this week that it plans to go ahead with its 63rd edition in the face of the coronavirus epidemic.
“Sffilm staff continue to monitor on a daily basis the...
Film Festivals
The San Francisco International Film Festival has set the documentary “Boys State” as its opening night film for April 8 at the Castro Theatre.
“Boys State,” directed by Jesse Moss and Amanda McBain, follows a group of Texas teens selected to participate in the program. The film won the U.S. documentary competition at the Sundance Film Festival in January. Moss and McBaine will be in attendance at the San Francisco event.
The festival, which is the longest running film festival in North America, had announced this week that it plans to go ahead with its 63rd edition in the face of the coronavirus epidemic.
“Sffilm staff continue to monitor on a daily basis the...
- 3/7/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Star power is always a draw at the American Film Market, led this year by Rachel Weisz playing Elizabeth Taylor in See-Saw’s “A Special Relationship.”
It’s a roll of the dice for independently financed projects. A pair of Diane Keaton projects — “Book Club” and “Poms” — were major draws at the last two AFMs. “Book Club” went up for sale in 2017 was a major success with more than $100 million in worldwide grosses last year. “Poms,” which was unveiled a year ago, failed to get much traction with $16 million.
A select list of anticipated titles at the American Film Market:
Losing Clementine
Director: Lucia Puenzo
Producers: Sentient Films, Freckle Films
Key Cast: Jessica Chastain
Logline: The story follows world-renowned artist who, after flushing away her meds, gives herself 31 days to tie up loose ends before killing herself.
Sales: Sierra/Affinity
Geechee
Director: Dubois Ashong
Producers: Agc Studios
Key Cast: Andrea Riseborough...
It’s a roll of the dice for independently financed projects. A pair of Diane Keaton projects — “Book Club” and “Poms” — were major draws at the last two AFMs. “Book Club” went up for sale in 2017 was a major success with more than $100 million in worldwide grosses last year. “Poms,” which was unveiled a year ago, failed to get much traction with $16 million.
A select list of anticipated titles at the American Film Market:
Losing Clementine
Director: Lucia Puenzo
Producers: Sentient Films, Freckle Films
Key Cast: Jessica Chastain
Logline: The story follows world-renowned artist who, after flushing away her meds, gives herself 31 days to tie up loose ends before killing herself.
Sales: Sierra/Affinity
Geechee
Director: Dubois Ashong
Producers: Agc Studios
Key Cast: Andrea Riseborough...
- 11/7/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Andrea Riseborough will star in the supernatural thriller “Geechee” for Stuart Ford’s Agc Studios, which will finance and produce.
Ford announced the deal Monday, two days ahead of the opening of the American Film Market in Santa Monica. Agc will sell international rights at Afm. CAA Media Finance is co-representing domestic rights.
“Geechee” will be the feature debut of writer-director Dubois Ashong. Production is set to begin in early 2020.
Ford and Agc’s Glendon Palmer will produce. Executive producers are Jermaine Johnson and Luke Maxwell of 3 Arts Entertainment.
Riseborough will portray a successful New York scientist who decides to leave the city with her son to start life over in the remote Sea Islands off the Atlantic coast. She quickly falls in love with the secluded island and its people, who are descendants of a centuries-old group of African slaves, but her world starts to unravel as the...
Ford announced the deal Monday, two days ahead of the opening of the American Film Market in Santa Monica. Agc will sell international rights at Afm. CAA Media Finance is co-representing domestic rights.
“Geechee” will be the feature debut of writer-director Dubois Ashong. Production is set to begin in early 2020.
Ford and Agc’s Glendon Palmer will produce. Executive producers are Jermaine Johnson and Luke Maxwell of 3 Arts Entertainment.
Riseborough will portray a successful New York scientist who decides to leave the city with her son to start life over in the remote Sea Islands off the Atlantic coast. She quickly falls in love with the secluded island and its people, who are descendants of a centuries-old group of African slaves, but her world starts to unravel as the...
- 11/4/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Andrea Riseborough (Birdman) will lead the cast of Geechee, a supernatural thriller from debut writer-director Dubois Ashong.
Stuart Ford’s Agc Studios will finance and produce the pic and is repping sales rights. CAA Media Finance is co-repping domestic rights.
Riseborough will star as Wren, a successful New York scientist who decides to leave the city with her son to start life over in the remote Sea Islands off the Atlantic Coast. She quickly falls in love with the land and the people on the secluded island, but soon her world starts to unravel as the souls of the subjugated begin to haunt her dreams and her waking life.
Production is set for early 2020. Agc’s Ford and Glendon Palmer will produce. Onboard as executive producers are Jermaine Johnson and Luke Maxwell of 3 Arts Entertainment.
Riseborough will next be seen in Nicolas Pesce’s reboot of horror movie The Grudge,...
Stuart Ford’s Agc Studios will finance and produce the pic and is repping sales rights. CAA Media Finance is co-repping domestic rights.
Riseborough will star as Wren, a successful New York scientist who decides to leave the city with her son to start life over in the remote Sea Islands off the Atlantic Coast. She quickly falls in love with the land and the people on the secluded island, but soon her world starts to unravel as the souls of the subjugated begin to haunt her dreams and her waking life.
Production is set for early 2020. Agc’s Ford and Glendon Palmer will produce. Onboard as executive producers are Jermaine Johnson and Luke Maxwell of 3 Arts Entertainment.
Riseborough will next be seen in Nicolas Pesce’s reboot of horror movie The Grudge,...
- 11/4/2019
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Production set for early 2020.
Agc Studios has added another appealing package to its Afm slate and will finance, produce and sell worldwide rights on the supernatural thriller Geechee to star Andrea Riseborough.
Chairman and CEO Stuart Ford and Agc’s Glendon Palmer serve as producers, and Jermaine Johnson and Luke Maxwell of 3 Arts Entertainment are executive producers.
Dubois Ashong makes his writing and directing feature debut on Geechee and production is set to commence in early 2020 on the story about a New York scientist who relocates with her son to the Sea Islands off the southeastern United States.
While...
Agc Studios has added another appealing package to its Afm slate and will finance, produce and sell worldwide rights on the supernatural thriller Geechee to star Andrea Riseborough.
Chairman and CEO Stuart Ford and Agc’s Glendon Palmer serve as producers, and Jermaine Johnson and Luke Maxwell of 3 Arts Entertainment are executive producers.
Dubois Ashong makes his writing and directing feature debut on Geechee and production is set to commence in early 2020 on the story about a New York scientist who relocates with her son to the Sea Islands off the southeastern United States.
While...
- 11/4/2019
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Agc Studios, Stuart Ford’s independent content studio, will finance and produce supernatural thriller Geechee, starring Andrea Riseborough (Birdman, Nocturnal Animals, The Death of Stalin).
Agc chairman and CEO and Agc’s Glendon Palmer will produce the feature debut of writer-director Dubois Ashong. Jermaine Johnson and Luke Maxwell of 3 Arts Entertainment will serve as executive producers. Production will start in early 2020.
Riseborough stars as Wren, a successful New York scientist who decides to leave the city with her son to start life over in the remote Sea Islands off the Atlantic Coast whose people are descendants of a century’s old ...
Agc chairman and CEO and Agc’s Glendon Palmer will produce the feature debut of writer-director Dubois Ashong. Jermaine Johnson and Luke Maxwell of 3 Arts Entertainment will serve as executive producers. Production will start in early 2020.
Riseborough stars as Wren, a successful New York scientist who decides to leave the city with her son to start life over in the remote Sea Islands off the Atlantic Coast whose people are descendants of a century’s old ...
- 11/4/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Agc Studios, Stuart Ford’s independent content studio, will finance and produce supernatural thriller Geechee, starring Andrea Riseborough (Birdman, Nocturnal Animals, The Death of Stalin).
Agc chairman and CEO and Agc’s Glendon Palmer will produce the feature debut of writer-director Dubois Ashong. Jermaine Johnson and Luke Maxwell of 3 Arts Entertainment will serve as executive producers. Production will start in early 2020.
Riseborough stars as Wren, a successful New York scientist who decides to leave the city with her son to start life over in the remote Sea Islands off the Atlantic Coast whose people are descendants of a century’s old ...
Agc chairman and CEO and Agc’s Glendon Palmer will produce the feature debut of writer-director Dubois Ashong. Jermaine Johnson and Luke Maxwell of 3 Arts Entertainment will serve as executive producers. Production will start in early 2020.
Riseborough stars as Wren, a successful New York scientist who decides to leave the city with her son to start life over in the remote Sea Islands off the Atlantic Coast whose people are descendants of a century’s old ...
- 11/4/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Anthony Anderson, the star of ABC’s “Black-ish,” will star in “Football or Me,” a new romantic comedy. The film will be produced and fully financed by Stuart Ford’s Agc Studios.
It is inspired by the Argentinian comedy “Futbol y Yo,” the story of an obsessive soccer fan whose love of the sport causes him to lose his job and puts a strain on his marriage. This time the sport in question will be football. The film will follow Peter (Anderson), a lifelong American football addict, who falls for Veronica, a successful entrepreneur. Their relationship is tested by his need to follow the season’s every tackle, interception, and touchdown.
Agc has hired Robb Chavis to adapt the screenplay. Badabing Pictures’ Tracey Bing and Benedict Carver will produce the film along with E. Brian Dobbins and Jose Levy. Ford and Agc’s head of film Greg Shapiro and head...
It is inspired by the Argentinian comedy “Futbol y Yo,” the story of an obsessive soccer fan whose love of the sport causes him to lose his job and puts a strain on his marriage. This time the sport in question will be football. The film will follow Peter (Anderson), a lifelong American football addict, who falls for Veronica, a successful entrepreneur. Their relationship is tested by his need to follow the season’s every tackle, interception, and touchdown.
Agc has hired Robb Chavis to adapt the screenplay. Badabing Pictures’ Tracey Bing and Benedict Carver will produce the film along with E. Brian Dobbins and Jose Levy. Ford and Agc’s head of film Greg Shapiro and head...
- 5/8/2019
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Badabing Pictures’ Tracey Bing, Benedict Carver among producers.
Agc Studios is fully financing and producing Football Or Me, the English-language remake of Argentinian rom-com Futbol O Yo, and has attached Anthony Anderson to star.
Anderson will also serve as producer on the project alongside Agc Studios, Badabing Pictures’ Tracey Bing, and producer Benedict Carver.
Agc has hired Robb Chavis (Black-ish) to adapt the screenplay about a lifelong American football addict who must decide if he is willing to ditch his love of the game when he falls for a successful entrepreneur.
Producing alongside Anderson are E. Brian Dobbins and Jose Levy,...
Agc Studios is fully financing and producing Football Or Me, the English-language remake of Argentinian rom-com Futbol O Yo, and has attached Anthony Anderson to star.
Anderson will also serve as producer on the project alongside Agc Studios, Badabing Pictures’ Tracey Bing, and producer Benedict Carver.
Agc has hired Robb Chavis (Black-ish) to adapt the screenplay about a lifelong American football addict who must decide if he is willing to ditch his love of the game when he falls for a successful entrepreneur.
Producing alongside Anderson are E. Brian Dobbins and Jose Levy,...
- 5/8/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
In today’s film news roundup, Focus gives a release date to Matthias Schoenaerts’ “The Mustang,” Stuart Ford’s Agc Studios will finance and produce the comedy “Action,” and Strand buys Israeli hit “The Other Story.”
Release Date
Focus Features has given a March 15, 2019, release date to the Matthias Schoenaerts drama “The Mustang.”
Schoenaerts portrays a convict in a rural Nevada prison who struggles to escape his violent past and is required to participate in an “outdoor maintenance” program as part of his state-mandated social rehabilitation. He’s spotted by a no-nonsense veteran trainer (Bruce Dern) and helped by an outgoing fellow inmate and trick rider (Jason Mitchell), and accepted into the selective wild horse training section of the program, where he finds his own humanity in dealing with an especially unbreakable mustang.
Connie Britton, Gideon Adlon, and Josh Stewart also star. Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre makes her feature directing debut with “The Mustang,...
Release Date
Focus Features has given a March 15, 2019, release date to the Matthias Schoenaerts drama “The Mustang.”
Schoenaerts portrays a convict in a rural Nevada prison who struggles to escape his violent past and is required to participate in an “outdoor maintenance” program as part of his state-mandated social rehabilitation. He’s spotted by a no-nonsense veteran trainer (Bruce Dern) and helped by an outgoing fellow inmate and trick rider (Jason Mitchell), and accepted into the selective wild horse training section of the program, where he finds his own humanity in dealing with an especially unbreakable mustang.
Connie Britton, Gideon Adlon, and Josh Stewart also star. Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre makes her feature directing debut with “The Mustang,...
- 11/29/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Brennan Shroff to direct from screenplay by Mike Grimm.
Agc studios will finance and produce the comedy Action, marking its latest urban project after recently announcing Gabrielle Union rom-com The Perfect Find, Effie T. Brown comedy We Real Cool, and a drama based on the life of Wall Street trader Lauren Simmons.
Brennan Shroff will direct Action from a screenplay by Mike Grimm about two best friends – a college-bound film fanatic and a high school sports star sidelined by injury – who experience a night of life-changing adventure.
The Hate U Give and Barbershop producer Robert Teitel, who collaborated with Agc Studios...
Agc studios will finance and produce the comedy Action, marking its latest urban project after recently announcing Gabrielle Union rom-com The Perfect Find, Effie T. Brown comedy We Real Cool, and a drama based on the life of Wall Street trader Lauren Simmons.
Brennan Shroff will direct Action from a screenplay by Mike Grimm about two best friends – a college-bound film fanatic and a high school sports star sidelined by injury – who experience a night of life-changing adventure.
The Hate U Give and Barbershop producer Robert Teitel, who collaborated with Agc Studios...
- 11/29/2018
- by Mark A. Silba
- ScreenDaily
Stuart Ford’s Agc Studios is to finance, produce and sell comedy movie Action.
Robert Teitel and 51 Minds’ Christian Sarabia and Mitchell Smith will produce the feature about best friends Damien and Marcus as they’re about to graduate high school. Damien is a model student and film fanatic who applies to NYU Film School in hopes of becoming the next Spike Lee. His best friend Marcus was destined to be a top college football player until an injury put him on the sidelines. In one raucous night the two friends have an unforgettable, life-changing adventure. Cast has yet to be set.
Brennan Shroff (TBS’ The Detour) will direct from a debut script by Mike Grimm. Agc’s Ford, Greg Shapiro and Glendon Palmer, and 51 Minds’ Lawrence Mott are onboard as executive producers. The project reunites Palmer, Teitel and Sarabia after their recent collaboration on upcoming Netflix pic Beats.
Robert Teitel and 51 Minds’ Christian Sarabia and Mitchell Smith will produce the feature about best friends Damien and Marcus as they’re about to graduate high school. Damien is a model student and film fanatic who applies to NYU Film School in hopes of becoming the next Spike Lee. His best friend Marcus was destined to be a top college football player until an injury put him on the sidelines. In one raucous night the two friends have an unforgettable, life-changing adventure. Cast has yet to be set.
Brennan Shroff (TBS’ The Detour) will direct from a debut script by Mike Grimm. Agc’s Ford, Greg Shapiro and Glendon Palmer, and 51 Minds’ Lawrence Mott are onboard as executive producers. The project reunites Palmer, Teitel and Sarabia after their recent collaboration on upcoming Netflix pic Beats.
- 11/28/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Independent content studio Agc is financing and producing the new action-comedy film “We Real Cool.”
Focusing on a group of college-bound friends, “We Real Cool” will follow Summer, Jordan, and Aurora on their journey home from a Brooklyn party as they avoid neighborhood goons following their implication in a terrifying murder.
With veteran indie film and television producer Effie T. Brown and Sundance producing fellow alum Leah Natasha Thomas producing, the project is set to enter production early next year. Joining Brown and Thomas on the project is Melissa V. Murray, who will make her feature film writing and directorial debut alongside executive producers Stuart Ford, Greg Shapiro, and Glendon Palmer.
“So many people talk a good game about inclusion and hiring women but rarely do the really follow through,” Brown said. “Stuart Ford and Agc did just that. In fact he doubled down – not only are they giving a...
Focusing on a group of college-bound friends, “We Real Cool” will follow Summer, Jordan, and Aurora on their journey home from a Brooklyn party as they avoid neighborhood goons following their implication in a terrifying murder.
With veteran indie film and television producer Effie T. Brown and Sundance producing fellow alum Leah Natasha Thomas producing, the project is set to enter production early next year. Joining Brown and Thomas on the project is Melissa V. Murray, who will make her feature film writing and directorial debut alongside executive producers Stuart Ford, Greg Shapiro, and Glendon Palmer.
“So many people talk a good game about inclusion and hiring women but rarely do the really follow through,” Brown said. “Stuart Ford and Agc did just that. In fact he doubled down – not only are they giving a...
- 11/14/2018
- by Nate Nickolai
- Variety Film + TV
“Dear White People” producer Effie Brown is returning to indie film and will produce a female-fronted action comedy titled “We Real Cool.”
AGC Studios will finance and co-produce the film along with Brown and Leah Natasha Thomas, the company announced today.
Agc’s CEO Stuart Ford, Greg Shapiro and Glendon Palmer will serve as executive producers. Melissa V. Murray, a graduate of Ghetto Film School and a Sundance Ignite Fellow alum, will make her feature film writing and directing debut with “We Real Cool.”
The project is casting and will go into production early next year.
Per the film’s logline, the story involves college-bound Summer, Jordan and Aurora, who are in for the night of their lives when they attend a party in Brooklyn where things get dicey. With no phones,...
AGC Studios will finance and co-produce the film along with Brown and Leah Natasha Thomas, the company announced today.
Agc’s CEO Stuart Ford, Greg Shapiro and Glendon Palmer will serve as executive producers. Melissa V. Murray, a graduate of Ghetto Film School and a Sundance Ignite Fellow alum, will make her feature film writing and directing debut with “We Real Cool.”
The project is casting and will go into production early next year.
Per the film’s logline, the story involves college-bound Summer, Jordan and Aurora, who are in for the night of their lives when they attend a party in Brooklyn where things get dicey. With no phones,...
- 11/14/2018
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Producers earmark early 2019 start on action comedy.
Agc Studios has added another urban feature to its roster and will finance and co-produce the action comedy We Real Cool with Dear White People producer Effie T. Brown and Leah Natasha Thomas.
Melissa V. Murray makes her feature writing and directing debut on the project about three college-bound teens who get implicated in a murder at a party in Brooklyn.
With the subway system down, no phones, no money and a bounty on their heads, the trio must navigate their way throgh hostile territory back to Harlem.
The producers are out to...
Agc Studios has added another urban feature to its roster and will finance and co-produce the action comedy We Real Cool with Dear White People producer Effie T. Brown and Leah Natasha Thomas.
Melissa V. Murray makes her feature writing and directing debut on the project about three college-bound teens who get implicated in a murder at a party in Brooklyn.
With the subway system down, no phones, no money and a bounty on their heads, the trio must navigate their way throgh hostile territory back to Harlem.
The producers are out to...
- 11/14/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Stuart Ford's Agc Studios has greenlighted We Real Cool, an urban action comedy from Dear White People producer Effie T. Brown.
Agc will finance and co-produce the film, which Brown and Leah Natasha Thomas (America Divided) will produce. Agc’s Ford, Greg Shapiro and Glendon Palmer will executive produce.
We Real Cool will mark the feature debut of Melissa V. Murray, a graduate of the Ghetto Film School and a Sundance Ignite Fellow alum, who will direct from her own script. We Real Cool is currently casting and is set to begin production early next year.
We Real Cool follows a trio ...
Agc will finance and co-produce the film, which Brown and Leah Natasha Thomas (America Divided) will produce. Agc’s Ford, Greg Shapiro and Glendon Palmer will executive produce.
We Real Cool will mark the feature debut of Melissa V. Murray, a graduate of the Ghetto Film School and a Sundance Ignite Fellow alum, who will direct from her own script. We Real Cool is currently casting and is set to begin production early next year.
We Real Cool follows a trio ...
- 11/14/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Stuart Ford's Agc Studios has greenlighted We Real Cool, an urban action comedy from Dear White People producer Effie T. Brown.
Agc will finance and co-produce the film, which Brown and Leah Natasha Thomas (America Divided) will produce. Agc’s Ford, Greg Shapiro and Glendon Palmer will executive produce.
We Real Cool will mark the feature debut of Melissa V. Murray, a graduate of the Ghetto Film School and a Sundance Ignite Fellow alum, who will direct from her own script. We Real Cool is currently casting and is set to begin production early next year.
We Real Cool follows a trio ...
Agc will finance and co-produce the film, which Brown and Leah Natasha Thomas (America Divided) will produce. Agc’s Ford, Greg Shapiro and Glendon Palmer will executive produce.
We Real Cool will mark the feature debut of Melissa V. Murray, a graduate of the Ghetto Film School and a Sundance Ignite Fellow alum, who will direct from her own script. We Real Cool is currently casting and is set to begin production early next year.
We Real Cool follows a trio ...
- 11/14/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Agc Studios has acquired the life rights to Wall Street trader Lauren Simmons’ life story.
The indie studio views the project as a starring vehicle for Kiersey Clemons (“Dope”). Agc was launched last year by former Im Global founder Stuart Ford. Its projects include Laika Animation’s ‘Missing Link,” the Gabrielle Union romantic comedy “The Perfect Find,” and the Roland Emmerich World War II epic “Midway.”
Clemons will also produce the film. The 23-year old Simmons made history as the youngest woman to ever be on the floor of the NYSE, and only the second African American female to trade full-time. Clemons’ recently appeared in “Hearts Beat Loud,” an indie drama, and will next be seen in Disney’s CGI and live action remake of “Lady and the Tramp,” as well as Fox’s live broadcast of “Rent.”
Simmons was a Georgia transplant to New York with a degree in genetics.
The indie studio views the project as a starring vehicle for Kiersey Clemons (“Dope”). Agc was launched last year by former Im Global founder Stuart Ford. Its projects include Laika Animation’s ‘Missing Link,” the Gabrielle Union romantic comedy “The Perfect Find,” and the Roland Emmerich World War II epic “Midway.”
Clemons will also produce the film. The 23-year old Simmons made history as the youngest woman to ever be on the floor of the NYSE, and only the second African American female to trade full-time. Clemons’ recently appeared in “Hearts Beat Loud,” an indie drama, and will next be seen in Disney’s CGI and live action remake of “Lady and the Tramp,” as well as Fox’s live broadcast of “Rent.”
Simmons was a Georgia transplant to New York with a degree in genetics.
- 11/13/2018
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
AGC Studios announced on Tuesday that it’s acquired the life rights for the story of Lauren Simmons, they youngest female trader to work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
The studio has set the project up for Kiersey Clemons to produce and star in the film.
Simmons, in addition to being the youngest woman ever on the trading floor, is currently the only woman at the NYSE and only the second African American female to trade full-time on the floor of the Exchange.
Simmons moved to New York from Georgia with a degree in genetics, but ultimately decided to put that career on hold and answered a posting on LinkedIn for a job with a Wall Street company.
Despite no formal financial background and only a month of preparation,...
The studio has set the project up for Kiersey Clemons to produce and star in the film.
Simmons, in addition to being the youngest woman ever on the trading floor, is currently the only woman at the NYSE and only the second African American female to trade full-time on the floor of the Exchange.
Simmons moved to New York from Georgia with a degree in genetics, but ultimately decided to put that career on hold and answered a posting on LinkedIn for a job with a Wall Street company.
Despite no formal financial background and only a month of preparation,...
- 11/13/2018
- by Trey Williams
- The Wrap
Simmons is first and youngest woman to work on Exchange floor.
Agc Studios has acquired the life rights of Lauren Simmons, the youngest woman to work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), and set Kiersey Clemons to star and produce.
Simmons moved to New York from Georgia armed with a degree in genetics. Her love of numbers led her to reply to a posting on LinkedIn for a job with a Wall Street company.
Without any formal finance training, she passed the challenging Series 19 professional exam and embarked on her new career.
Clemons starred in this...
Agc Studios has acquired the life rights of Lauren Simmons, the youngest woman to work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), and set Kiersey Clemons to star and produce.
Simmons moved to New York from Georgia armed with a degree in genetics. Her love of numbers led her to reply to a posting on LinkedIn for a job with a Wall Street company.
Without any formal finance training, she passed the challenging Series 19 professional exam and embarked on her new career.
Clemons starred in this...
- 11/13/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Agc Studios is lining up a movie about Lauren Simmons, the youngest female trader to work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange. Kiersey Clemons (Dope) will star in and produce the feature after Stuart Ford’s Agc acquired the life rights to Simmons’ story.
In addition to being the only female trader to work full-time at the New York Stock Exchange, at 23 Simmons is also the youngest woman to ever be on the floor of the NYSE, as well as only the second African American woman to trade full-time on the floor. Simmons came to New York from Georgia with a degree in genetics, but ultimately decided to put that career on hold. When she started exploring other professions, her passion for numbers led her to answer a posting on LinkedIn for a job with a Wall Street company. To keep the job, she had to take...
In addition to being the only female trader to work full-time at the New York Stock Exchange, at 23 Simmons is also the youngest woman to ever be on the floor of the NYSE, as well as only the second African American woman to trade full-time on the floor. Simmons came to New York from Georgia with a degree in genetics, but ultimately decided to put that career on hold. When she started exploring other professions, her passion for numbers led her to answer a posting on LinkedIn for a job with a Wall Street company. To keep the job, she had to take...
- 11/13/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Production scheduled to commence in 2019.
Gabrielle Union will star in rom-com The Perfect Find, which Agc Studios will finance, and produce alongside the actor and her production company I’ll Have Another, Jeff Morrone, and Tommy Oliver and Codie Elaine Oliver for Confluential Films.
The project is based on the book by Tia Williams that Leigh Davenport is adapting.
The Perfect Find tells of beauty journalist Jenna Jones (Union) who takes the only job available to her at a magazine where her boss is her frenemy, Darcy.
As Jenna struggles to keep up with her hip co-workers while keeping her boss happy,...
Gabrielle Union will star in rom-com The Perfect Find, which Agc Studios will finance, and produce alongside the actor and her production company I’ll Have Another, Jeff Morrone, and Tommy Oliver and Codie Elaine Oliver for Confluential Films.
The project is based on the book by Tia Williams that Leigh Davenport is adapting.
The Perfect Find tells of beauty journalist Jenna Jones (Union) who takes the only job available to her at a magazine where her boss is her frenemy, Darcy.
As Jenna struggles to keep up with her hip co-workers while keeping her boss happy,...
- 11/6/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Gabrielle Union is set to star in the romantic comedy “The Perfect Find,” based on a novel by “The Accidental Diva” author Tia Williams.
Agc Studios will finance and produce the project alongside Union and her production banner I’ll Have Another, the content studio announced on Tuesday.
“The Perfect Find” is the story of Jenna Jones (Union) who, desperate to have a fresh start in the world of beauty journalism, takes the only job available to her at a magazine where her boss is her frenemy, Darcy. Jenna finds herself struggling to keep up with her younger and more social media savvy co-workers while keeping Darcy happy. When Jenna starts a relationship with the company’s new videographer Eric, she thinks her life is finally turning around – until she finds out that Eric is Darcy’s son.
Also Read: 'Breaking In' Signals the Rise of Gabrielle Union...
Agc Studios will finance and produce the project alongside Union and her production banner I’ll Have Another, the content studio announced on Tuesday.
“The Perfect Find” is the story of Jenna Jones (Union) who, desperate to have a fresh start in the world of beauty journalism, takes the only job available to her at a magazine where her boss is her frenemy, Darcy. Jenna finds herself struggling to keep up with her younger and more social media savvy co-workers while keeping Darcy happy. When Jenna starts a relationship with the company’s new videographer Eric, she thinks her life is finally turning around – until she finds out that Eric is Darcy’s son.
Also Read: 'Breaking In' Signals the Rise of Gabrielle Union...
- 11/6/2018
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Gabrielle Union is set to produce and star in romantic comedy “The Perfect Find” with Stuart Ford’s Agc Studios financing and producing, Variety has learned exclusively.
The project is based on the best-selling book of the same title by Tia Williams (“The Accidental Diva”). “The Perfect Find” is scheduled to shoot in 2019.
Union will produce through her production company I’ll Have Another along with Jeff Morrone, Tommy Oliver and Codie Elaine Oliver. Agc’s Ford, Greg Shapiro and Glendon Palmer are onboard as executive producers, with Holly Shakoor Fleischer of I’ll Have Another co-producing.
Leigh Davenport is writing the screenplay, in which Union’s character is desperate to have a fresh start in the world of beauty journalism and takes the only job available to her at a magazine where her boss is her frenemy, Darcy. She finds herself struggling to keep up with her younger and...
The project is based on the best-selling book of the same title by Tia Williams (“The Accidental Diva”). “The Perfect Find” is scheduled to shoot in 2019.
Union will produce through her production company I’ll Have Another along with Jeff Morrone, Tommy Oliver and Codie Elaine Oliver. Agc’s Ford, Greg Shapiro and Glendon Palmer are onboard as executive producers, with Holly Shakoor Fleischer of I’ll Have Another co-producing.
Leigh Davenport is writing the screenplay, in which Union’s character is desperate to have a fresh start in the world of beauty journalism and takes the only job available to her at a magazine where her boss is her frenemy, Darcy. She finds herself struggling to keep up with her younger and...
- 11/6/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Bring It On and Think Like a Man star Gabrielle Union has been cast as the lead in The Perfect Find, an upcoming romantic comedy based on the best-selling book of the same name by Tia Williams.
Stuart Ford's Agc Studios will fully finance and produce the film alongside Union, who will produce under her I’ll Have Another shingle. Jeff Morrone, Tommy Oliver and Codie Elaine Oliver of Confluential Films will also produce. Agc’s Ford, Greg Shapiro and Glendon Palmer will executive produce, with I’ll Have Another’s Holly Shakoor Fleischer as co-producer.
Perfect Find is set to begin shooting ...
Stuart Ford's Agc Studios will fully finance and produce the film alongside Union, who will produce under her I’ll Have Another shingle. Jeff Morrone, Tommy Oliver and Codie Elaine Oliver of Confluential Films will also produce. Agc’s Ford, Greg Shapiro and Glendon Palmer will executive produce, with I’ll Have Another’s Holly Shakoor Fleischer as co-producer.
Perfect Find is set to begin shooting ...
- 11/6/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Bring It On and Think Like a Man star Gabrielle Union has been cast as the lead in The Perfect Find, an upcoming romantic comedy based on the best-selling book of the same name by Tia Williams.
Stuart Ford's Agc Studios will fully finance and produce the film alongside Union, who will produce under her I’ll Have Another shingle. Jeff Morrone, Tommy Oliver and Codie Elaine Oliver of Confluential Films will also produce. Agc’s Ford, Greg Shapiro and Glendon Palmer will executive produce, with I’ll Have Another’s Holly Shakoor Fleischer as co-producer.
Perfect Find is set to begin shooting ...
Stuart Ford's Agc Studios will fully finance and produce the film alongside Union, who will produce under her I’ll Have Another shingle. Jeff Morrone, Tommy Oliver and Codie Elaine Oliver of Confluential Films will also produce. Agc’s Ford, Greg Shapiro and Glendon Palmer will executive produce, with I’ll Have Another’s Holly Shakoor Fleischer as co-producer.
Perfect Find is set to begin shooting ...
- 11/6/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In today’s film news roundup, New York says “Ocean’s 8” generated $63 million in economic activity, Anthony Anderson joins a Netflix coming-of-age drama, and Rosie O’Donnell backs an anti-Trump documentary.
Economic Activity
New York officials have announced that the production of Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures’ “Ocean’s 8” created more than $63 million in economic activity to New York State.
The production spent over 60 days shooting in New York, under the direction of Gary Ross. The film stars Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson, Awkwafina, Rihanna, and Helena Bonham Carter and was shot at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Central Park, Marcy Armory in Brooklyn, Veselka Cafe in East Village, Myrtle Avenue in Richmond Hill, Fifth Avenue and 79th Street, and 3rd Avenue and 52nd Street in Manhattan.
“Ocean’s 8” generated $31 million in wages; more than $22 million spent on local rentals and purchases for set decoration,...
Economic Activity
New York officials have announced that the production of Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures’ “Ocean’s 8” created more than $63 million in economic activity to New York State.
The production spent over 60 days shooting in New York, under the direction of Gary Ross. The film stars Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson, Awkwafina, Rihanna, and Helena Bonham Carter and was shot at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Central Park, Marcy Armory in Brooklyn, Veselka Cafe in East Village, Myrtle Avenue in Richmond Hill, Fifth Avenue and 79th Street, and 3rd Avenue and 52nd Street in Manhattan.
“Ocean’s 8” generated $31 million in wages; more than $22 million spent on local rentals and purchases for set decoration,...
- 6/9/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Global Road Entertainment and 51 Minds Entertainment-produced feature “Beats,” starring Anthony Anderson (“Black-ish”), has started production in Chicago, Netflix announced on Friday.
Chris Robinson is directing from an original screenplay by Miles Feldsott.
“Beats” is an urban coming of age drama where the paths of a young musical prodigy (Khalil Everage) with borderline agoraphobia, and a former music manager (Anthony Anderson) who fell from grace, collide on Chicago’s South Side, and the unlikely duo must come together to free each other from the demons of their past. “Beats” is the ultimate ode to Chicago and its hip hop scene, as it illustrates the beating pulse at the heart of the South Side.
Also Read: Anthony Anderson, La La Anthony Return to Host VH1's 'Dear Mama' Special
The “Beats” filmmakers went for authenticity over experience by casting newcomer Khalil Everage, a seventeen-year-old from Chicago’s very own South Side,...
Chris Robinson is directing from an original screenplay by Miles Feldsott.
“Beats” is an urban coming of age drama where the paths of a young musical prodigy (Khalil Everage) with borderline agoraphobia, and a former music manager (Anthony Anderson) who fell from grace, collide on Chicago’s South Side, and the unlikely duo must come together to free each other from the demons of their past. “Beats” is the ultimate ode to Chicago and its hip hop scene, as it illustrates the beating pulse at the heart of the South Side.
Also Read: Anthony Anderson, La La Anthony Return to Host VH1's 'Dear Mama' Special
The “Beats” filmmakers went for authenticity over experience by casting newcomer Khalil Everage, a seventeen-year-old from Chicago’s very own South Side,...
- 6/8/2018
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Black-ish star Anthony Anderson has come aboard to star in Netflix’s Beats, a coming-of-age drama set in Chicago’s South Side hip-hop scene. The pic, from Global Road Entertainment and 51 Minds Entertainment, just began filming with The New Edition Story director Chris Robinson helming Miles Orion Feldsott’s original script. A 2019 release is planned.
Khalil Everage, a 17-year-old newcomer from the South Side, stars as a musical prodigy with borderline agoraphobia whose path collides with a former music manager (Anderson) who has fallen from grace. The unlikely duo must come together to free each other from the demons of their pasts. The pic will also feature established and rising Chicago-based hip-hop producers and artists, including original music from Young Chop. Orange Is the New Black‘s Uzo Aduba, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Paul Walter Hauser and hip-hop artists Dave East and Dreezy co-star.
Bob Teitel, Christian Sarabia, Glendon Palmer are producers,...
Khalil Everage, a 17-year-old newcomer from the South Side, stars as a musical prodigy with borderline agoraphobia whose path collides with a former music manager (Anderson) who has fallen from grace. The unlikely duo must come together to free each other from the demons of their pasts. The pic will also feature established and rising Chicago-based hip-hop producers and artists, including original music from Young Chop. Orange Is the New Black‘s Uzo Aduba, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Paul Walter Hauser and hip-hop artists Dave East and Dreezy co-star.
Bob Teitel, Christian Sarabia, Glendon Palmer are producers,...
- 6/8/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Hires include Michael Rothstein, Bonnie Voland.
Stuart Ford’s newly-launched film and television venture Agc Studios has staffed up with a raft of senior executive hires.
The majority worked at Ford’s former outfit Im Global, which he founded in 2007 but left in August 2017 after a disagreement with Tang Media Partners, the Chinese company that bought Im Global in June 2016.
The hires include Michael Rothstein who will assume the role of president of worldwide distribution and will oversee the studio’s worldwide sales and distribution activity. Rothstein was previously president of international sales and distribution at Im Global and before...
Stuart Ford’s newly-launched film and television venture Agc Studios has staffed up with a raft of senior executive hires.
The majority worked at Ford’s former outfit Im Global, which he founded in 2007 but left in August 2017 after a disagreement with Tang Media Partners, the Chinese company that bought Im Global in June 2016.
The hires include Michael Rothstein who will assume the role of president of worldwide distribution and will oversee the studio’s worldwide sales and distribution activity. Rothstein was previously president of international sales and distribution at Im Global and before...
- 3/15/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Agc Studios, the new production and international sales outfit launched by Im Global founder Stuart Ford last month, has boosted its executive ranks with a number of familiar faces.
Former Im Global execs Michael Rothstein, Bonnie Voland, Wifreddy Chaing, Cristina Garza, Glendon Palmer, David Schulhof, Jed DeMoss, Callum Grant and Samuel Hall.are all joining Ford at Agc.
The executive line up join Oscar-winning producer Greg Shapiro (The Hurt Locker, Detroit), who on Monday took over as Agc's new head of film, overseeing the company's development and production slate, a job he previously held at Im Global.
Rothstein will...
Former Im Global execs Michael Rothstein, Bonnie Voland, Wifreddy Chaing, Cristina Garza, Glendon Palmer, David Schulhof, Jed DeMoss, Callum Grant and Samuel Hall.are all joining Ford at Agc.
The executive line up join Oscar-winning producer Greg Shapiro (The Hurt Locker, Detroit), who on Monday took over as Agc's new head of film, overseeing the company's development and production slate, a job he previously held at Im Global.
Rothstein will...
- 3/15/2018
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The distributor has picked up UK rights to The 9th Life Of Louis Drax and Southside With You.
Soda has set a September theatrical release for The 9th Life Of Louis Drax. Alexandre Aja directed from Max Minghella’s adapted screenplay based on Liz Jensen’s bestseller.
Jamie Dornan, Aaron Paul, Sarah Gadon, Oliver Platt, Molly Parker, Barbara Hershey and Aiden Longworth in the title role star in the tale of a doctor drawn into a web of deceit following the near-fatal fall of a young boy.
Aja, Minghella, Tim Bricknell and Shawn Williamson produced with Miramax’s Zanne Devine and Rosanne Korenberg on board as executive producers.
Opening in October will be Richard Tanne’s feature directorial debut Southside With You, inspired by the first date between Barack and Michelle Obama in Chicago in 1989.
Parker Sawyers and Tika Sumpter star. Robert Teitel, Sumpter and Tanne produced.
Stuart Ford of the film’s financier and international sales agent...
Soda has set a September theatrical release for The 9th Life Of Louis Drax. Alexandre Aja directed from Max Minghella’s adapted screenplay based on Liz Jensen’s bestseller.
Jamie Dornan, Aaron Paul, Sarah Gadon, Oliver Platt, Molly Parker, Barbara Hershey and Aiden Longworth in the title role star in the tale of a doctor drawn into a web of deceit following the near-fatal fall of a young boy.
Aja, Minghella, Tim Bricknell and Shawn Williamson produced with Miramax’s Zanne Devine and Rosanne Korenberg on board as executive producers.
Opening in October will be Richard Tanne’s feature directorial debut Southside With You, inspired by the first date between Barack and Michelle Obama in Chicago in 1989.
Parker Sawyers and Tika Sumpter star. Robert Teitel, Sumpter and Tanne produced.
Stuart Ford of the film’s financier and international sales agent...
- 5/25/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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