Exclusive: LA and London-based management and production company 42 (The Silent Twins) is bolstering its U.S. footprint of managers and producers with the appointment of Peter Dealbert as a manager.
Dealbert will be based in 42’s LA office and will continue to specialize in literary talent representation and producing across film and TV.
Dealbert founded literary management and production company Pacific View in 2015 and he represents creators across film and TV as both a literary manager and producer.
Pacific View’s roster of clients, which includes Andrew Sodroski, Juliet-Lashinsky Revene, Ben Raab and Deric Hughes, Emily Brochin, Chris Salmanpour and Matthew-Lee Erlbach, will now be represented by Dealbert at 42.
Under the 42 banner, Dealbert will continue producing Amazon Studios’ upcoming thriller Holland, Michigan, with Nicole Kidman set to star and produce through her production company Blossom Films.
Prior to founding Pacific View, Dealbert was a manager at Principato-Young Entertainment. He...
Dealbert will be based in 42’s LA office and will continue to specialize in literary talent representation and producing across film and TV.
Dealbert founded literary management and production company Pacific View in 2015 and he represents creators across film and TV as both a literary manager and producer.
Pacific View’s roster of clients, which includes Andrew Sodroski, Juliet-Lashinsky Revene, Ben Raab and Deric Hughes, Emily Brochin, Chris Salmanpour and Matthew-Lee Erlbach, will now be represented by Dealbert at 42.
Under the 42 banner, Dealbert will continue producing Amazon Studios’ upcoming thriller Holland, Michigan, with Nicole Kidman set to star and produce through her production company Blossom Films.
Prior to founding Pacific View, Dealbert was a manager at Principato-Young Entertainment. He...
- 2/9/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: John Wells has teamed with Tony-winning theater and opera director Ivo van Hove on Doll, a psychological thriller series set in the ruthless world of a modern music conservatory, which is in development at Warner Bros. Television. Van Hove’s artistic collaborator Jan Versweyveld is set to serve as production and lighting designer on the project, which marks the duo’s first foray into scripted television.
Doll is written by Matthew-Lee Erlbach who was inspired by his experience training his own classical voice at one of the top music conservatories in the country and experiencing their cutthroat environment first-hand.
Set in an elite NYC music conservatory, Doll follows Nora, a working-class soprano with a dark past, punk ambitions and an outsized voice who gets the role of a lifetime that threatens to destroy her life. Thrust into a world of sex, drugs, ambition and madness,...
Doll is written by Matthew-Lee Erlbach who was inspired by his experience training his own classical voice at one of the top music conservatories in the country and experiencing their cutthroat environment first-hand.
Set in an elite NYC music conservatory, Doll follows Nora, a working-class soprano with a dark past, punk ambitions and an outsized voice who gets the role of a lifetime that threatens to destroy her life. Thrust into a world of sex, drugs, ambition and madness,...
- 2/1/2023
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Tony Award-winnning director Anna D. Shapiro has signed with CAA for representation. CAA also will represent multimedia venture Highwire Media which includes principals Shapiro, Leelai Demoz, Ian Barford, and Brad Keywell.
Shapiro, who won the Tony for Best Direction in 2008 for Tracy Letts’ August: Osage County, most recently directed last season’s Broadway production of Letts’ Tony-nominated The Minutes. She was nominated for a Tony Award for her 2011 direction of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ The Motherf**ker With The Hat starring Chris Rock and Bobby Cannavale.
Among other credits, Shapiro directed the Broadway production of This Is Our Youth by Kenneth Lonergan; Fish in the Dark, written by and starring Larry David, and Of Mice and Men starring James Franco and Chris O’Dowd.
Shapiro led Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company as Artistic Director from 2014 to 2021.
Currently, she is developing and directing the planned Broadway musical The Devil Wears Prada, with music by Elton John,...
Shapiro, who won the Tony for Best Direction in 2008 for Tracy Letts’ August: Osage County, most recently directed last season’s Broadway production of Letts’ Tony-nominated The Minutes. She was nominated for a Tony Award for her 2011 direction of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ The Motherf**ker With The Hat starring Chris Rock and Bobby Cannavale.
Among other credits, Shapiro directed the Broadway production of This Is Our Youth by Kenneth Lonergan; Fish in the Dark, written by and starring Larry David, and Of Mice and Men starring James Franco and Chris O’Dowd.
Shapiro led Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company as Artistic Director from 2014 to 2021.
Currently, she is developing and directing the planned Broadway musical The Devil Wears Prada, with music by Elton John,...
- 11/2/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Tony Award-winning director Anna D.Shapiro (August: Osage County), Oscar-nominated producer Leelai Demoz (On Tip-Toe), Tony-nominated actor/writer Ian Barford (Linda Vista) and entrepreneur Brad Keywell have teamed up to create multimedia venture Highwire Media, an artist-first production company that is developing and producing projects across film, theater, and television.
Highwire Media’s debut slate includes projects with Emmy Award-winning actors and producers Brendan Hunt (Ted Lasso) and Jane Lynch (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), writer Matthew-Lee Erlbach (Masters of Sex), Tony Award-winning producer Greg Nobile (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder) and companies Hyde Park Entertainment and West Madison Entertainment, as part of an initial plan to put 5 projects into production annually.
Highwire’s founders have formalized an innovative development process, honed from years of working across the entertainment landscape.
In a joint statement, the founders explain, “Highwire Media is committed to an artist-centric model...
Highwire Media’s debut slate includes projects with Emmy Award-winning actors and producers Brendan Hunt (Ted Lasso) and Jane Lynch (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), writer Matthew-Lee Erlbach (Masters of Sex), Tony Award-winning producer Greg Nobile (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder) and companies Hyde Park Entertainment and West Madison Entertainment, as part of an initial plan to put 5 projects into production annually.
Highwire’s founders have formalized an innovative development process, honed from years of working across the entertainment landscape.
In a joint statement, the founders explain, “Highwire Media is committed to an artist-centric model...
- 10/27/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
‘We Are the Champions’ Review: Netflix Doc Series Is a Lighthearted Celebration of Human Achievement
“We Are the Champions” has an opening that will probably hook anyone who decided on a whim to start watching. The Netflix documentary series begins with an artful, stately introduction, priming any viewer for a frills-free look at its chosen topic. And then, on a dime, Rainn Wilson’s narration switches from mannered to tongue-in-cheek, setting the stage for a different kind of window into various global competitive subcultures.
That’s certainly true for the first episode, a sweeping overview of cheese rolling, an annual tradition that has enchanted an entire village in southwest England. It puts forth the twin stories of young women competing in the yearly downhill cheese chase that’s snapped and dislocated its share of bones. From its tidy parallel storylines to an early drone shot that emphasizes the sheer drop awaiting any would-be daredevils, it’s an episode with plenty of heart to go along with its sleek presentation.
That’s certainly true for the first episode, a sweeping overview of cheese rolling, an annual tradition that has enchanted an entire village in southwest England. It puts forth the twin stories of young women competing in the yearly downhill cheese chase that’s snapped and dislocated its share of bones. From its tidy parallel storylines to an early drone shot that emphasizes the sheer drop awaiting any would-be daredevils, it’s an episode with plenty of heart to go along with its sleek presentation.
- 11/17/2020
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
SeriesFest has wrapped its fifth edition in Denver after handing out juried awards to 15 winners.
Beyond the pilot competition, highlights of the June 21-26 festival, inlcuded panels featuring Netflix content chief Ted Sarandos and a team of executives and collaborators from Shondaland. NBC fall drama Bluff City Law had its world premiere, and Starz rolled out the first episode of The Rook. Stevie Wonder and Usher performed at Red Rocks Amphitheatre outside Denver, continuing the mostly TV-focused festival’s annual music undercurrent.
Currency, a drama imagining a “green-out” that threatens the capitalist system, captured Best Drama Pilot honors as well as the Audience Award. Best Comedy Pilot went to Brooklyn Moving Company, which depicts movers who burst into song and dance.
Jurors screened 53 pilots at the Sie FilmCenter, the arthouse multiplex that is the year-round home of Denver Film. (See the full list of winners below.)
“This year’s pilots...
Beyond the pilot competition, highlights of the June 21-26 festival, inlcuded panels featuring Netflix content chief Ted Sarandos and a team of executives and collaborators from Shondaland. NBC fall drama Bluff City Law had its world premiere, and Starz rolled out the first episode of The Rook. Stevie Wonder and Usher performed at Red Rocks Amphitheatre outside Denver, continuing the mostly TV-focused festival’s annual music undercurrent.
Currency, a drama imagining a “green-out” that threatens the capitalist system, captured Best Drama Pilot honors as well as the Audience Award. Best Comedy Pilot went to Brooklyn Moving Company, which depicts movers who burst into song and dance.
Jurors screened 53 pilots at the Sie FilmCenter, the arthouse multiplex that is the year-round home of Denver Film. (See the full list of winners below.)
“This year’s pilots...
- 6/27/2019
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s roundup, Amazon drops the first official trailer for “Carnival Row,” starring Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne.
Dates
August 1 will see the premiere of Hgtv’s “Flip or Flop,” which follows divorced couple Christina Anstead and Tarek El Moussa as they figure out their relationship as co-parents and business partners. In the 18-episode season, the real estate experts buy, renovate, and sell SoCal properties for profit as they raise their three kids together.
Season 2 of “Miz & Mrs.” will return to USA Network on August 6. The docuseries follows the A-List lifestyle of married WWE stars Michael Mizanin (The Miz) and Maryse Mizanin, after they trade in the Hollywood Hills for a quiet life in Austin, Texas.
First Look
Amazon has released the official trailer for its forthcoming original series “Carnival Row.” Premiering August 30, the series stars Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne in a Victorian fantasy world filled with mythological...
Dates
August 1 will see the premiere of Hgtv’s “Flip or Flop,” which follows divorced couple Christina Anstead and Tarek El Moussa as they figure out their relationship as co-parents and business partners. In the 18-episode season, the real estate experts buy, renovate, and sell SoCal properties for profit as they raise their three kids together.
Season 2 of “Miz & Mrs.” will return to USA Network on August 6. The docuseries follows the A-List lifestyle of married WWE stars Michael Mizanin (The Miz) and Maryse Mizanin, after they trade in the Hollywood Hills for a quiet life in Austin, Texas.
First Look
Amazon has released the official trailer for its forthcoming original series “Carnival Row.” Premiering August 30, the series stars Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne in a Victorian fantasy world filled with mythological...
- 6/26/2019
- by Anna Tingley
- Variety Film + TV
The Passing Season
"Sense8" and "Stargate Universe" hunk Brian J. Smith has signed on to star in Gabriel Long's indie drama "The Passing Season" which begins shooting this week in Rhode Island.
In the script by Long and Matthew-Lee Erlbach, Smith will play a pro hockey player whose career comes to an abrupt end. He returns to his hometown, reconnects with a group of high school friends. [Source: Deadline]
Snowfall
Billy Magnussen has scored one of the lead roles in John Singleton's drugs drama series "Snowfall" for FX. The story is set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles in the 1980s and its ultimate impact on the culture.
Magnussen will play one of three characters on a violent collision course. His is a wealthy family's black sheep who risks everything to become a player in the burgeoning cocaine trade. Filming begins this Summer. [Source: Deadline]
Swallows and Amazons...
"Sense8" and "Stargate Universe" hunk Brian J. Smith has signed on to star in Gabriel Long's indie drama "The Passing Season" which begins shooting this week in Rhode Island.
In the script by Long and Matthew-Lee Erlbach, Smith will play a pro hockey player whose career comes to an abrupt end. He returns to his hometown, reconnects with a group of high school friends. [Source: Deadline]
Snowfall
Billy Magnussen has scored one of the lead roles in John Singleton's drugs drama series "Snowfall" for FX. The story is set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles in the 1980s and its ultimate impact on the culture.
Magnussen will play one of three characters on a violent collision course. His is a wealthy family's black sheep who risks everything to become a player in the burgeoning cocaine trade. Filming begins this Summer. [Source: Deadline]
Swallows and Amazons...
- 6/29/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
BrianJ.Smith The Glass Menagerie,The Columnist, Come Back Little Shebahas signed on to star in the independent featureThe Passing Season. Gabriel Long is making his feature debut, directing the script he co-wrote with Matthew-Lee Erlbach. Rebecca Atwood will produce. Shooting is set for this month in Rhode Island.Smithwill play 'Sam,' a professional hockey player whose career comes to an abrupt end. He returns to his hometown, reconnects witha group of high school friends, and attempts to escape into an earlier, simpler time in his life.
- 6/26/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Tony nominee Brian J. Smith, now one of the stars of Netflix’s original series Sense8, has signed on to star in The Passing Season, and indie drama from first-time director Gabriel Long. Rebecca Atwood is producing the pic, which begins shooting this week in Rhode Island. In the script by Long and Matthew-Lee Erlbach, Smith will play a pro hockey player whose career comes to an abrupt end. He returns to his hometown, reconnects with a group of high school friends, and…...
- 6/25/2015
- Deadline
Another Earth (12A)
(Mike Cahill, 2011, Us) Brit Marling, William Mapother, Matthew-Lee Erlbach. 92 mins
It's been quite a year for cosmic arthouse, and like The Tree Of Life and Melancholia, this low-key indie contrasts inner and outer space to stirring effect. Unlike a Kubrick-style space odyssey, it's very much down to earth – Earth One, that is. "Earth Two", a duplicate of our own, is more like a giant metaphor in the sky. Its discovery tragically fuses the lives of two people, and could yet resolve it, which makes for a tender character drama with a shot of sci-fi ingenuity.
Puss In Boots (U)
(Chris Miller, 2011, Us) Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis. 90 mins
Between the Shrek brand recognition, the bright 3D, the broad-spectrum comedy and the prospect of cute cats dancing, it's hard to imagine a more mercilessly commercial proposition than this animated spin-off. It's a predictably polished affair, with Banderas's...
(Mike Cahill, 2011, Us) Brit Marling, William Mapother, Matthew-Lee Erlbach. 92 mins
It's been quite a year for cosmic arthouse, and like The Tree Of Life and Melancholia, this low-key indie contrasts inner and outer space to stirring effect. Unlike a Kubrick-style space odyssey, it's very much down to earth – Earth One, that is. "Earth Two", a duplicate of our own, is more like a giant metaphor in the sky. Its discovery tragically fuses the lives of two people, and could yet resolve it, which makes for a tender character drama with a shot of sci-fi ingenuity.
Puss In Boots (U)
(Chris Miller, 2011, Us) Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis. 90 mins
Between the Shrek brand recognition, the bright 3D, the broad-spectrum comedy and the prospect of cute cats dancing, it's hard to imagine a more mercilessly commercial proposition than this animated spin-off. It's a predictably polished affair, with Banderas's...
- 12/10/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Blu-ray Review
Another Earth
Directed by: Mike Cahill
Cast: Brit Marling, William Mapother, Matthew-Lee Erlbach
Running Time: 1 hr 30 mins
Rating: PG-13
Due Out: November 29, 2011
Plot:a young woman (Marling) with a tragic past attempts to make peace with herself and the man (Mapother) she wronged several years later.
Who’S It For? Fans of quiet, understated dramas may find themselves engaged by the emotionally wrought storytelling, but for those looking for a quick sci-fi fix should look elsewhere.
Movie:
What do you call a movie that is part drama, part romance, with a hint of sci-fi? No, seriously. This isn’t the beginning of a bad joke, this is a legitimate question. That’s the first problem with Another Earth. It’s a movie for which there are no words. While ordinarily this would be the mark of a cinematic genius, it frequently works against Another Earth.
The problem with the...
Another Earth
Directed by: Mike Cahill
Cast: Brit Marling, William Mapother, Matthew-Lee Erlbach
Running Time: 1 hr 30 mins
Rating: PG-13
Due Out: November 29, 2011
Plot:a young woman (Marling) with a tragic past attempts to make peace with herself and the man (Mapother) she wronged several years later.
Who’S It For? Fans of quiet, understated dramas may find themselves engaged by the emotionally wrought storytelling, but for those looking for a quick sci-fi fix should look elsewhere.
Movie:
What do you call a movie that is part drama, part romance, with a hint of sci-fi? No, seriously. This isn’t the beginning of a bad joke, this is a legitimate question. That’s the first problem with Another Earth. It’s a movie for which there are no words. While ordinarily this would be the mark of a cinematic genius, it frequently works against Another Earth.
The problem with the...
- 12/6/2011
- by Calhoun Kersten
- The Scorecard Review
Hitting movie theaters this weekend:
Shame (limited) - Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale
Sleeping Beauty (limited) - Emily Browning, Rachael Blake, Ewen Leslie
Movie of the Week
Sleeping Beauty
The Stars: Emily Browning, Rachael Blake, Ewen Leslie
The Plot: A haunting portrait of Lucy (Browning), a young university student drawn into a mysterious hidden world of unspoken desires.
The Buzz: This film’s trailer contained more than a few subtle hints that Sleeping Beauty was to enact some very sinister sexual episodes, and a very creepy/harsh vibe was diffused throughout. I saw the film a few weeks ago and found that it fully lived up to its advertising.
The film was thoroughly dark, and had somewhat of a male-hating bent to it — I suppose that’s why I didn’t enjoy it as much as I’d anticipated I would. There’s also a professed loathing of the wealthy therein,...
Shame (limited) - Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale
Sleeping Beauty (limited) - Emily Browning, Rachael Blake, Ewen Leslie
Movie of the Week
Sleeping Beauty
The Stars: Emily Browning, Rachael Blake, Ewen Leslie
The Plot: A haunting portrait of Lucy (Browning), a young university student drawn into a mysterious hidden world of unspoken desires.
The Buzz: This film’s trailer contained more than a few subtle hints that Sleeping Beauty was to enact some very sinister sexual episodes, and a very creepy/harsh vibe was diffused throughout. I saw the film a few weeks ago and found that it fully lived up to its advertising.
The film was thoroughly dark, and had somewhat of a male-hating bent to it — I suppose that’s why I didn’t enjoy it as much as I’d anticipated I would. There’s also a professed loathing of the wealthy therein,...
- 11/30/2011
- by Aaron Ruffcorn
- The Scorecard Review
★★★★☆ It's back! The 2011 Raindance Film Festival kicked off earlier this evening with an opening gala featuring the UK premiere of existential drama Another Earth (2011), the debut fictional feature from American director Mike Cahill - starring Brit Marling (who co-wrote the screenplay alongside Cahill), William Mapother and Matthew-Lee Erlbach - which also picked up the Special Jury Prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival.
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- 9/28/2011
- by Daniel Green
- CineVue
Kristin Scott Thomas, Sarah's Key Blame it on a liberal/left-wing conspiracy, Obama's repressive policies, or Captain America: The First Avenger, but despite the addition of four theaters — or a 40% increase in venues — the Sarah Palin movie The Undefeated plummeted 63% on its second weekend out. At 14 locations, The Undefeated collected a dismal $24,000, for a per-theater average of $1,714, according to studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo. Expect Sarah Palin and The Undefeated to disappear from North American screens very shortly. That is, until both Palin and the Stephen K. Bannon-directed documentary inevitably resurface early next year at the Razzie Awards. Performing much better in limited release was The Weinstein Company-distributed Sarah's Key, directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, and featuring Kristin Scott Thomas and Mélusine Mayance. The Holocaust-related drama collected $117k at five theaters, averaging $23,400 per site. Additionally, Sarah's Key has already taken in $13.42m overseas, chiefly in France ($6.41m) and...
- 7/25/2011
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
I've always considered my earliest memories to be a guiding light by which I navigate my life as an entertainer. These memories and the emotions attached to them provide an awesome foundation for my creativity and it is an exceedingly rare opportunity when I am afforded the chance to experience a medium that taps that very foundation for me. Like a children's book hearkening back to those innocent and youthful days when pure imagination was the key to unlocking any door, Another Earth spins a beautifully simple story that plumbs the depths of not just the heart and mind, but of the prismatic wonder that is the human condition.
The Basics
Rhoda Williams is like any teenager at the beginning of her life. With her MIT acceptance letter in her pocket, she celebrates the night away, her future bright and full of promise. But fate can deal a cruel hand...
The Basics
Rhoda Williams is like any teenager at the beginning of her life. With her MIT acceptance letter in her pocket, she celebrates the night away, her future bright and full of promise. But fate can deal a cruel hand...
- 7/15/2011
- Cinelinx
The Another Earth Movie Trailer has premiered. Mike Cahill‘s Another Earth (2011) stars Brit Marling, Williams Mapother, Jordan Baker, Flint Beverage, and Robin Taylor. Another Earth‘s plot synopsis: “Rhoda Williams (Brit Marling), a bright young woman accepted into MIT’s astrophysics program, aspires to explore the cosmos. A brilliant composer, John Burroughs (William Mapother), has just reached the pinnacle of his profession and is about to have a second child. On the eve of the discovery of a duplicate Earth, tragedy strikes and the lives of these strangers become irrevocably intertwined.” Rhoda is brave enough to seek out the person she hurt and whose life she changed forever yet doesn’t have the courage to tell that person what she did. I bet this changes at some point during Another Earth as the guilt of what she has done eats away at her. The back-drop of two Earths is pretty cool plot element.
- 4/23/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
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