Exclusive: Anonymous Content is elevating longtime literary managers and producers Ryan Cunningham, David Kanter and Nicole Romano to partner.
Cunningham joined Anonymous Content in 2019 from Madhouse Entertainment where he had been a manager and producer for a decade. On the management side, his clients include filmmakers Scott Beck & Bryan Woods (65), Derek Tsang (The Three Body Problem), Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei (How to Blow Up a Pipeline); showrunners and writers Steven DeKnight (Spartacus), Jewel Coronel (The Chi), Seamus Fahey (Walker: Independence) and Sonya Winton & Jonathan Kidd (Lovecraft Country), Darnell Metayer and Josh Peters (Transformers: Rise of the Beasts), Neil Uliano and Bryan Schulz (The Peanuts Movie), and Ben Queen (The Addams Family 2). Cunningham most recently produced the Sky/Relativity feature The Independent, and executive-produced Stephen King adaptation The Boogeyman, which will be released in June by 20th Century Studios and Disney.
Kanter is a producer and manager at Anonymous...
Cunningham joined Anonymous Content in 2019 from Madhouse Entertainment where he had been a manager and producer for a decade. On the management side, his clients include filmmakers Scott Beck & Bryan Woods (65), Derek Tsang (The Three Body Problem), Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei (How to Blow Up a Pipeline); showrunners and writers Steven DeKnight (Spartacus), Jewel Coronel (The Chi), Seamus Fahey (Walker: Independence) and Sonya Winton & Jonathan Kidd (Lovecraft Country), Darnell Metayer and Josh Peters (Transformers: Rise of the Beasts), Neil Uliano and Bryan Schulz (The Peanuts Movie), and Ben Queen (The Addams Family 2). Cunningham most recently produced the Sky/Relativity feature The Independent, and executive-produced Stephen King adaptation The Boogeyman, which will be released in June by 20th Century Studios and Disney.
Kanter is a producer and manager at Anonymous...
- 4/12/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
E. Lockhart’s bestselling YA novels — “We Were Liars,” its prequel “Family of Liars” and “Again Again” — have been optioned by Julie Plec’s My So-Called Company and Universal Television.
Released in 2014, the critically acclaimed, TikTok phenomenon “We Were Liars” follows the thrilling and suspenseful unraveling of a group of four friends — the title Liars. The tragic love story, set on a private island, became a National Book Award finalist and Printz Award honor.
Its prequel, published in May, takes readers back a generation to uncover the stories of generations past and the “secrets that will haunt them for decades to come.”
“Again Again” — which was published in 2020 — centers on the young Adelaide Buchwald, who survives near-fatal family catastrophe and embarks on an unexpected journey of romantic upheaval. Set during the summer, she discovers what it means to love and reshapes her ideas about romance.
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Released in 2014, the critically acclaimed, TikTok phenomenon “We Were Liars” follows the thrilling and suspenseful unraveling of a group of four friends — the title Liars. The tragic love story, set on a private island, became a National Book Award finalist and Printz Award honor.
Its prequel, published in May, takes readers back a generation to uncover the stories of generations past and the “secrets that will haunt them for decades to come.”
“Again Again” — which was published in 2020 — centers on the young Adelaide Buchwald, who survives near-fatal family catastrophe and embarks on an unexpected journey of romantic upheaval. Set during the summer, she discovers what it means to love and reshapes her ideas about romance.
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- 7/20/2022
- by Natalie Oganesyan
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Great news for fans of E. Lockhart’s popular YA books: Julie Plec’s My So-Called Company and Universal Television has acquired the rights to We Were Liars, Family of Liars and Again Again.
We Were Liars is a tragic love story and an amnesia thriller set on a privately owned island off the coast of Massachusetts. It’s been on the NY Times bestseller list for the past 22 months.
The recently released Family of Liars, the prequel to We Were Liars, takes readers back to the story of another summer, another generation, and the secrets that will haunt them for decades to come.
Again Again follows Adelaide Buchwald who, after a near-fatal family catastrophe and an unexpected romantic upheaval, finds herself catapulted into a summer of wild possibility, during which she will fall in and out of love a thousand times while confronting the secrets she keeps, her ideas about love,...
We Were Liars is a tragic love story and an amnesia thriller set on a privately owned island off the coast of Massachusetts. It’s been on the NY Times bestseller list for the past 22 months.
The recently released Family of Liars, the prequel to We Were Liars, takes readers back to the story of another summer, another generation, and the secrets that will haunt them for decades to come.
Again Again follows Adelaide Buchwald who, after a near-fatal family catastrophe and an unexpected romantic upheaval, finds herself catapulted into a summer of wild possibility, during which she will fall in and out of love a thousand times while confronting the secrets she keeps, her ideas about love,...
- 7/20/2022
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Anonymous Content has promoted Joe Bello, Austin Hegedus, Julia Mok and Ali Lefkowitz—four assistants and coordinators working across its Media Rights and Talent divisions—to Manager. Bello, Hegedus and Mok will be working within the Talent division, with Lefkowitz joining the previously promoted Ryan Wilson as a Manager in Media Rights. In their new roles, Bello, Hegedus, Mok and Lefkowitz will continue to work with and expand Anonymous’ client roster.
“Every person in this group has shown such passion and commitment not only to their work and their clients but to their own professional growth during their time at Anonymous, it has truly been a privilege to watch them develop,” said Anonymous Content Partners, Tony Lipp and Kassie Evashevski. “We could not be more excited for them to take this next step in their careers and continue to flourish as our next generation of managers.”
The LA-based Bello...
“Every person in this group has shown such passion and commitment not only to their work and their clients but to their own professional growth during their time at Anonymous, it has truly been a privilege to watch them develop,” said Anonymous Content Partners, Tony Lipp and Kassie Evashevski. “We could not be more excited for them to take this next step in their careers and continue to flourish as our next generation of managers.”
The LA-based Bello...
- 5/5/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Anonymous Content is elevating five managers and producers — Alex Goldstone, Carolyn Govers, Kim Hodgert, Duncan Millership, and Heather Nunn — to Partner.
Goldstone is a Manager in Anonymous Content’s literary division. Govers, Hodgert, Millership, and Nunn are Talent Managers in the company’s Talent division.
The five join Anonymous Content Partners including Sandra Chang, Bard Dorros, Kassie Evashevski Dara Gordon, Joy Gorman Wettels, Tehmina Jaffer, David Levine, Tony Lipp, Robyn Meisinger, Dawn Olmstead, Howie Sanders, Eli Selden, Adam Shulman, Eric Stern, Rosalie Swedlin, and Doug Wald.
“Each of these individuals plays a fundamental role in the continued success of Anonymous Content and could not be more deserving of this recognition and promotion to Partner,” said Anonymous Content CEO, Dawn Olmstead. “Their skill, commitment, desire to develop and amplify their clients, and passion for creating the premium stories we strive to tell every day is unmatched. On behalf of Anonymous Content,...
Goldstone is a Manager in Anonymous Content’s literary division. Govers, Hodgert, Millership, and Nunn are Talent Managers in the company’s Talent division.
The five join Anonymous Content Partners including Sandra Chang, Bard Dorros, Kassie Evashevski Dara Gordon, Joy Gorman Wettels, Tehmina Jaffer, David Levine, Tony Lipp, Robyn Meisinger, Dawn Olmstead, Howie Sanders, Eli Selden, Adam Shulman, Eric Stern, Rosalie Swedlin, and Doug Wald.
“Each of these individuals plays a fundamental role in the continued success of Anonymous Content and could not be more deserving of this recognition and promotion to Partner,” said Anonymous Content CEO, Dawn Olmstead. “Their skill, commitment, desire to develop and amplify their clients, and passion for creating the premium stories we strive to tell every day is unmatched. On behalf of Anonymous Content,...
- 3/2/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Seoul- and Los Angeles-based Bound Entertainment (AppleTV+’s Dr. Brain), is teaming with YA author Marie Lu to develop a series adaptation of her dystopian fantasy novel, Legend.
The best-seller is the first of a trilogy and was originally published in 2011, going on to sell over 3M copies worldwide. It’s set in a futuristic world where what was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Eighteen-year-old Day lives on the streets as the country’s most wanted criminal, while eighteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed by the Republic’s highest military circles. The two teenagers cross paths when Day becomes the suspect in a high-profile murder case.
Lu will be developing the series and writing the pilot in collaboration with Lindsay Sturman who will also serve as executive producer. Bound Entertainment...
The best-seller is the first of a trilogy and was originally published in 2011, going on to sell over 3M copies worldwide. It’s set in a futuristic world where what was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Eighteen-year-old Day lives on the streets as the country’s most wanted criminal, while eighteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed by the Republic’s highest military circles. The two teenagers cross paths when Day becomes the suspect in a high-profile murder case.
Lu will be developing the series and writing the pilot in collaboration with Lindsay Sturman who will also serve as executive producer. Bound Entertainment...
- 11/18/2021
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Anonymous Content has upped longtime managers and producers Robyn Meisinger and Dara Gordon to partners. Gordon. They join AC partners Adam Shulman, Bard Dorros, David Levine, Dawn Olmstead, Doug Wald, Eli Selden, Eric Stern, Howie Sanders, Joy Gorman Wettels, Kassie Evashevski, Rosalie Swedlin, Sandra Chang, Tehmina Jaffer and Tony Lipp.
“Dara and Robyn are such incredibly talented, passionate and skilled managers, producers, mentors and most importantly leaders. They truly represent what is best about Anonymous Content,” said Anonymous Content CEO, Dawn Olmstead. “They have each embraced the constantly changing entertainment landscape in their own way, reimagining the ways in which we tell stories and embodying the innovative nature at the heart of Anonymous Content. They could not be more deserving of this promotion, and I look forward to all that they will accomplish next.”
Meisinger, a literary manager and producer, has become the co-head of the literary department. She...
“Dara and Robyn are such incredibly talented, passionate and skilled managers, producers, mentors and most importantly leaders. They truly represent what is best about Anonymous Content,” said Anonymous Content CEO, Dawn Olmstead. “They have each embraced the constantly changing entertainment landscape in their own way, reimagining the ways in which we tell stories and embodying the innovative nature at the heart of Anonymous Content. They could not be more deserving of this promotion, and I look forward to all that they will accomplish next.”
Meisinger, a literary manager and producer, has become the co-head of the literary department. She...
- 11/2/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Grandview has hired former Gotham Group and Anonymous Content manager Tara Timinsky.
Timinsky joins from Gotham. Among the writer and journalist clients coming with her are author, producer and trans advocate Geena Rocero, Brian Broome, who was most recently named a finalist for the Kirkus Nonfiction Prize for his memoir Punch Me Up To The Gods, The Atlantic’s Kaitlyn Tiffany, Guggenheim fellow Rhonda K. Garelick, and authors Etaf Rum and Lori Nelson Spielman.
Timinsky began her career at Anonymous, where she started in the mailroom and landed her first assistant job working in Business & Legal Affairs. Following the arrival of Howie Sanders and Kassie Evashevski, she transitioned to help found Anonymous’s Media Rights Department, where she was promoted to manager and brokered deals for clients including Cecelia Ahern, Sebastian Junger, Francisco Cantú, Ben Rhodes and The New York Times.
Timinsky said: “I’m immensely excited to join Grandview,...
Timinsky joins from Gotham. Among the writer and journalist clients coming with her are author, producer and trans advocate Geena Rocero, Brian Broome, who was most recently named a finalist for the Kirkus Nonfiction Prize for his memoir Punch Me Up To The Gods, The Atlantic’s Kaitlyn Tiffany, Guggenheim fellow Rhonda K. Garelick, and authors Etaf Rum and Lori Nelson Spielman.
Timinsky began her career at Anonymous, where she started in the mailroom and landed her first assistant job working in Business & Legal Affairs. Following the arrival of Howie Sanders and Kassie Evashevski, she transitioned to help found Anonymous’s Media Rights Department, where she was promoted to manager and brokered deals for clients including Cecelia Ahern, Sebastian Junger, Francisco Cantú, Ben Rhodes and The New York Times.
Timinsky said: “I’m immensely excited to join Grandview,...
- 10/26/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
“Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service,” by Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post investigative journalist Carol Leonnig, will be getting the silver screen treatment. Rights to the book, which detail the scandals and security failures of the Secret Service, have been acquired in a competitive situation to be adapted into a television series.
“Zero Fail” debuted a the top of the New York Times Bestseller List upon its debut in May 2021 from Random House. Spanning 11 presidencies, the novel follows the missteps of the Secret Service, including the drunken outing the night before the Kennedy assassination to the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. “Zero Fail” digs into the steely resolve and sacrifices of many Secret Service agents who have committed their lives to protect the nation’s security, but also uncovers senior agents’ arrogant misconduct and salacious scandals that the service sought to keep quiet. In 2015, Leonnig was...
“Zero Fail” debuted a the top of the New York Times Bestseller List upon its debut in May 2021 from Random House. Spanning 11 presidencies, the novel follows the missteps of the Secret Service, including the drunken outing the night before the Kennedy assassination to the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. “Zero Fail” digs into the steely resolve and sacrifices of many Secret Service agents who have committed their lives to protect the nation’s security, but also uncovers senior agents’ arrogant misconduct and salacious scandals that the service sought to keep quiet. In 2015, Leonnig was...
- 8/12/2021
- by Mónica Marie Zorrilla
- Variety Film + TV
In a competitive situation, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Carol Leonnig’s bestelling book Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service, described as the first definitive account of the scandals and security failures of the Secret Service, has been acquired to be adapted as a television series. A writer is not yet attached.
Thomas Tull, who financed the option based on his particular interest in the book and material, and Bobby Cohen will executive produce the series with Leonnig. Wynn Wygal will also produce.
Released in May 2021 by Random House, Zero Fail portrays both the steely resolve and sacrifices of many Secret Service agents who have committed their lives to protecting the nation’s security, as well as other senior agents’ arrogant misconduct and salacious scandals that the service sought to cover up. Spanning eleven presidencies, Zero Fail follows the missteps of the agency...
Thomas Tull, who financed the option based on his particular interest in the book and material, and Bobby Cohen will executive produce the series with Leonnig. Wynn Wygal will also produce.
Released in May 2021 by Random House, Zero Fail portrays both the steely resolve and sacrifices of many Secret Service agents who have committed their lives to protecting the nation’s security, as well as other senior agents’ arrogant misconduct and salacious scandals that the service sought to cover up. Spanning eleven presidencies, Zero Fail follows the missteps of the agency...
- 8/12/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive Producers Webster Stone and Robert Stone have acquired rights to Anthony Bourdain’s crime novel Gone Bamboo for a scripted series based on a pilot. The 1997 book was the celebrity chef’s second published work of fiction.
Set on the island of St. Martin, Gone Bamboo follows sharpshooting hedonistic assassin Henry Denard, who botches a career-capping hit. Denard must enlist the help of his skilled, stunning, and volatile wife to save their skins, dispatch the villains, and keep the peace — at all costs — in their tropical paradise.
“I wanted to write a sociopath beach book,” writes Bourdain in the book’s introduction. “I wanted a hero and heroine as lazy, mercenary, lustful and free of redeeming qualities as I sometimes see myself.”
The Stone brothers’ producing credits include The Conspirator, Gone in Sixty Seconds and The Negotiator. They’re currently developing the recently published thriller Girl from Nowhere by...
Set on the island of St. Martin, Gone Bamboo follows sharpshooting hedonistic assassin Henry Denard, who botches a career-capping hit. Denard must enlist the help of his skilled, stunning, and volatile wife to save their skins, dispatch the villains, and keep the peace — at all costs — in their tropical paradise.
“I wanted to write a sociopath beach book,” writes Bourdain in the book’s introduction. “I wanted a hero and heroine as lazy, mercenary, lustful and free of redeeming qualities as I sometimes see myself.”
The Stone brothers’ producing credits include The Conspirator, Gone in Sixty Seconds and The Negotiator. They’re currently developing the recently published thriller Girl from Nowhere by...
- 2/19/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
In a very competitive situation. Blumhouse has won the screen rights to a Dec. 13 New York Times story which chronicled one desperate mother’s revenge spree in Mexico, when she avenged her daughter’s murder by taking on the drug cartels and tracking down the perpetrators by herself. She saw ten of them apprehended by police before she was shot and killed in front of her home on Mother’s Day, 2017.
Nyt will produce with Blumhouse, and Caitlin Roper, Nyt’s executive producer for scripted projects, is producing alongside the article’s writer, Azam Ahmed, and Jason Blum. Anonymous Content represented the article in the sale process. The story, titled She Stalked Her Daughter’s Killers Across Mexico, One by One, ignited a heated bidding immediately after it was published December 15. Blumhouse is said to have prevailed over 16 production companies and studios that chased it.
Ahmed is Nyt bureau chief for Mexico,...
Nyt will produce with Blumhouse, and Caitlin Roper, Nyt’s executive producer for scripted projects, is producing alongside the article’s writer, Azam Ahmed, and Jason Blum. Anonymous Content represented the article in the sale process. The story, titled She Stalked Her Daughter’s Killers Across Mexico, One by One, ignited a heated bidding immediately after it was published December 15. Blumhouse is said to have prevailed over 16 production companies and studios that chased it.
Ahmed is Nyt bureau chief for Mexico,...
- 12/22/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
A TV adaptation of Marie Lu’s YA sci-fi novel “Warcross” is in the works from Bruna Papandrea and John Cameron.
Warcross, which was was published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books in September 2017, is about a hacker named Emika Chen, who “accidentally glitches herself” in the fictional game Warcross and “becomes an overnight sensation,” an accident that changes her life forever.
“Altered Carbon” and “Reprisal” alums Adam Lash and Cori Uchida will write the script and executive produce the series. Papandrea’s Made Up Stories production company and Cameron have optioned the rights to Lu’s novel, with both set to executive produce the project, which does not yet have a network or streaming service attached to it, and Cameron directing the pilot. Lu will also executive produce the show, along with Made Up Stories’ Steve Hutensky and Casey Haver, with Janice Park producing.
The “Warcross” series will...
Warcross, which was was published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books in September 2017, is about a hacker named Emika Chen, who “accidentally glitches herself” in the fictional game Warcross and “becomes an overnight sensation,” an accident that changes her life forever.
“Altered Carbon” and “Reprisal” alums Adam Lash and Cori Uchida will write the script and executive produce the series. Papandrea’s Made Up Stories production company and Cameron have optioned the rights to Lu’s novel, with both set to executive produce the project, which does not yet have a network or streaming service attached to it, and Cameron directing the pilot. Lu will also executive produce the show, along with Made Up Stories’ Steve Hutensky and Casey Haver, with Janice Park producing.
The “Warcross” series will...
- 9/10/2020
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Marie Lu’s bestselling YA sci-fi novel Warcross is in the works for the small screen. Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories and Emmy-winning producer John Cameron have optioned the rights to adapt the novel as a television series. The project hails from Made Up Stories, Cameron and Endeavor Content, where both Made Up Stories and Cameron are under overall deals.
In Warcross, for the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn’t just a game–it’s a way of life. When a young hacker, Emika Chen, accidentally glitches herself in the game and becomes an overnight sensation, her world is turned upside down and changed forever.
Adam Lash and Cori Uchida will write and executive produce the series with Papandrea and Cameron, who will direct the pilot, as well as Made Up Stories’ Steve Hutensky and Casey Haver. Lu also will serve as an executive producer,...
In Warcross, for the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn’t just a game–it’s a way of life. When a young hacker, Emika Chen, accidentally glitches herself in the game and becomes an overnight sensation, her world is turned upside down and changed forever.
Adam Lash and Cori Uchida will write and executive produce the series with Papandrea and Cameron, who will direct the pilot, as well as Made Up Stories’ Steve Hutensky and Casey Haver. Lu also will serve as an executive producer,...
- 9/10/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Sue Kroll is set to produce Warner Bros.’ film adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert’s New York Times best-seller “City of Girls,” the studio announced Monday.
Warner Bros. acquired the film rights to the novel, which was published last June. Emmy and WGA Award-nominated writer Michelle Ashford will write the screenplay.
“City of Girls” is set in 1940s New York and follows a young woman’s journey in the discovery of herself. This is the third big-screen adaptation of a work by Gilbert: Her 2006 memoir, “Eat Pray Love,” was adapted into a 2010 film that starred Julia Roberts, and her GQ article about her time as a bartender at NYC’s Coyote Ugly saloon was the basis of 2000’s “Coyote Ugly.”
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“I completely fell in love with Elizabeth Gilbert’s ‘City of Girls,'” Kroll said. “She created an original,...
Warner Bros. acquired the film rights to the novel, which was published last June. Emmy and WGA Award-nominated writer Michelle Ashford will write the screenplay.
“City of Girls” is set in 1940s New York and follows a young woman’s journey in the discovery of herself. This is the third big-screen adaptation of a work by Gilbert: Her 2006 memoir, “Eat Pray Love,” was adapted into a 2010 film that starred Julia Roberts, and her GQ article about her time as a bartender at NYC’s Coyote Ugly saloon was the basis of 2000’s “Coyote Ugly.”
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“I completely fell in love with Elizabeth Gilbert’s ‘City of Girls,'” Kroll said. “She created an original,...
- 11/4/2019
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Sue Kroll will produce a film adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert’s best-selling novel, “City of Girls.”
Warner Bros. Pictures acquired the big-screen rights to the book, which Kroll will produce through her Kroll & Co. Entertainment banner. Emmy-nominated writer Michelle Ashford (“Masters of Sex”) will pen the screenplay.
“City of Girls” unspools in 1940s NYC, following artists, showgirls, and theater barons while charting one young woman’s journey of self discovery. The novel hit shelves last summer, becoming a major publishing hit. It is Gilbert’s second book to be adapted for the screen, following the 2010 Julia Roberts vehicle “Eat Pray Love.” Gilbert’s GQ article about her time as a bartender inspired the 2000 film “Coyote Ugly.”
“I completely fell in love with Elizabeth Gilbert’s ’City of Girls,'” Kroll said in a statement. ”She created an original, joyful and incredible world of daring characters so vividly painted that you genuinely feel the aspirations,...
Warner Bros. Pictures acquired the big-screen rights to the book, which Kroll will produce through her Kroll & Co. Entertainment banner. Emmy-nominated writer Michelle Ashford (“Masters of Sex”) will pen the screenplay.
“City of Girls” unspools in 1940s NYC, following artists, showgirls, and theater barons while charting one young woman’s journey of self discovery. The novel hit shelves last summer, becoming a major publishing hit. It is Gilbert’s second book to be adapted for the screen, following the 2010 Julia Roberts vehicle “Eat Pray Love.” Gilbert’s GQ article about her time as a bartender inspired the 2000 film “Coyote Ugly.”
“I completely fell in love with Elizabeth Gilbert’s ’City of Girls,'” Kroll said in a statement. ”She created an original, joyful and incredible world of daring characters so vividly painted that you genuinely feel the aspirations,...
- 11/4/2019
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
The sheer volume of television out there is changing how precious intellectual property is foraged, acquired and ultimately used.
Demand in the book-to-tv adaptation market is rising, according to a number of industry insiders, and hunger for source material has shifted from the feature film business to television. Considering Netflix’s content spending spree, Disney’s superhero gravy train and burgeoning streaming platforms that now require content — not to mention the need to make a project stand out from about 500 other scripted series — finding a book with a built-in audience can relieve some of the pressure to develop hits for the small screen.
But that comes with a price tag.
“It’s starting to get more expensive because everyone is trying to do the same thing,” Amblin Television co-president Darryl Frank told Variety. “Everyone is trying to option IP to give themselves a leg up.”
And the hunt for juicy...
Demand in the book-to-tv adaptation market is rising, according to a number of industry insiders, and hunger for source material has shifted from the feature film business to television. Considering Netflix’s content spending spree, Disney’s superhero gravy train and burgeoning streaming platforms that now require content — not to mention the need to make a project stand out from about 500 other scripted series — finding a book with a built-in audience can relieve some of the pressure to develop hits for the small screen.
But that comes with a price tag.
“It’s starting to get more expensive because everyone is trying to do the same thing,” Amblin Television co-president Darryl Frank told Variety. “Everyone is trying to option IP to give themselves a leg up.”
And the hunt for juicy...
- 1/31/2019
- by Elaine Low
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Anonymous Content has hired Kristina Moore to its growing Media Rights Division.
Moore joins from The Wylie Agency, where she spent the last ten years as a literary agent specializing in fiction and nonfiction as well as managing authors’ estates.
She joins Anonymous Content’s Media Rights co-heads Howie Sanders and Kassie Evashevski along with recently hired managers Brooke Ehrlich and Geoffrey Sanford. Moore will be based out of Anonymous Content’s New York office.
“Our goal is to build a team of world class representatives at Anonymous Content,” said division Co-Heads Sanders and Evashevski, “Kristina is an incredibly impressive and accomplished colleague who shares our passion for story and character. With her on board, we are very excited for what 2019 holds and what we can no doubt accomplish with our stellar team of colleagues.”
Prior to joining Wylie, Moore worked in the DC office of the law firm...
Moore joins from The Wylie Agency, where she spent the last ten years as a literary agent specializing in fiction and nonfiction as well as managing authors’ estates.
She joins Anonymous Content’s Media Rights co-heads Howie Sanders and Kassie Evashevski along with recently hired managers Brooke Ehrlich and Geoffrey Sanford. Moore will be based out of Anonymous Content’s New York office.
“Our goal is to build a team of world class representatives at Anonymous Content,” said division Co-Heads Sanders and Evashevski, “Kristina is an incredibly impressive and accomplished colleague who shares our passion for story and character. With her on board, we are very excited for what 2019 holds and what we can no doubt accomplish with our stellar team of colleagues.”
Prior to joining Wylie, Moore worked in the DC office of the law firm...
- 1/16/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Anonymous Content has brought in managers Brooke Ehrlich and Geoffrey Sanford to expand the media rights division formed by partners Howie Sanders and Kassie Evashevski last year. Together, Ehrlich and Sanford ran their own boutique management firm The Sanford Ehrlich Company. They will operate out of Anonymous Content’s Los Angeles headquarters.
“Brooke and Geoffrey are two of the very best representatives of critically-acclaimed material, as well as brilliant screen and television writers and directors,” Sanders and Evashevski said. “We couldn’t be more excited to have Brooke and Geoff join us. “Over the course of their very successful careers, they have displayed savvy and a keen eye for talent that is unquestionable.”
Sanford and Ehrlich stated, “We are thrilled to expand our relationship with Anonymous Content and work with their incredible clients, and team. We’ve long admired the way they do business and are excited to bring...
“Brooke and Geoffrey are two of the very best representatives of critically-acclaimed material, as well as brilliant screen and television writers and directors,” Sanders and Evashevski said. “We couldn’t be more excited to have Brooke and Geoff join us. “Over the course of their very successful careers, they have displayed savvy and a keen eye for talent that is unquestionable.”
Sanford and Ehrlich stated, “We are thrilled to expand our relationship with Anonymous Content and work with their incredible clients, and team. We’ve long admired the way they do business and are excited to bring...
- 7/9/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Longtime UTA partners and book department co-heads Howie Sanders and Kassie Evashevski are leaving the agency. They are moving to the Anonymous Content, where they will transition to producer/managers and establish a dedicated literary rights division. Agency staff is being told right now. Sanders has been at UTA around two decades, and Evashevski half that long, joining in 2007 after a decade as a manager at Brillstein Entertainment Partners. Before that she…...
- 9/22/2017
- Deadline
This story first appeared in the June 27 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. For those studio executives who passed on John Green's The Fault in Our Stars for being commercially unfeasible, here's your do-over. Three of the author's five other books are up for grabs. But given Fault's box-office feat -- $122 million worldwide in its first 10 days -- there will be plenty of competition. "I don't think it would surprise anyone that we're getting a multitude of calls about all things John Green," says Green's literary agent Jodi Reamer at Writers House. UTA's Kassie Evashevski, who handles
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- 6/18/2014
- by Tatiana Siegel
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Breaking: DreamWorks has acquired the upcoming sci-fi thriller novel Spark by John Twelve Hawks. Doubleday is publishing the book in the U.S. and UK in October 2014, and the deal was just made by UTA’s Kassie Evashevski. The author, also repped by Writers House, is well-known for being reclusive. He’s known to his fans as J12H and supposedly communicates to the outside world through untraceable satellite calls using a voice scrambler. He just prefers to live off the grid, and that will be a little easier with some of that movie deal option cash. Warner Bros last year optioned his Fourth Realm Trilogy series.
- 10/14/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Chris Highland had been at Paradigm since early last year and before that spent seven years at Gersh. He joins UTA‘s New York office as a talent agent covering theater as well as TV and film. His client list includes Victor Garber, Josh Hamilton, Adam Rothenberg, Patina Miller, Aya Cash and Dagmara Dominczyk among others. The move follows the addition of theater rep Mark Subias’ move there in April, and is part of the agency’s NY push to boost its legit business in Broadway, off-Broadway, regional and London theater. Related: UTA Promotes Literary Agent Kassie Evashevski To Partner...
- 11/20/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
UTA Book Department Co-Head and literary agent Kassie Evashevski has been made Partner at the agency, it was announced today. “Her partner promotion reflects her invaluable contributions to the agency over the years and the important role she will continue to play in our success,” said David Kramer, UTA’s Managing Director and Head of Motion Picture Literary Department. Evashevski’s client roster includes Twilight author Stephenie Meyer, Salman Rushdie, Inheritance Cycle author Christopher Paolini, Wally Lamb, Jonathan Tropper, whose One Last Thing Before I Go was picked up by Paramount for $1 million in January and Ree Drummond whose cookbook/memoir The Pioneer Women was acquired by Sony in 2010 and will star Reese Witherspoon. Earlier this year, Evashevski negotiated the deal that saw 20th Century Fox acquire the rights to self-published dystopian future novel Wool. Evashevski joined UTA back in 2007 after a decade as a manager at Brillstein Entertainment Partners.
- 11/9/2012
- by DOMINIC PATTEN
- Deadline TV
UTA has promoted Kassie Evashevski, its book department co-head, to partner. Evashevski is a lit agent who has been with the agency since 2007. Among her clients are Twilight author Stephenie Meyer, Wally Lamb (I Know This Much to Be True), Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat Pray Love), Salman Rushdie, Christopher Paolini, Jonathan Tropper, Dave Pilkey, John Hodgman, John Green, Ree Drummond and Yellow Bird Productions. She runs the UTA’s book vision with longtime UTA partner Howard Sanders, repping film, TV and digital rights for authors and journalists. “Kassie is an exceptional agent whose taste and intelligence in representing authors and
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- 11/9/2012
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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