Exclusive: Longtime manager Michael Botti has joined Redefine Entertainment as a Partner, effective immediately. Botti is the first Partner added to the company since its founding in 2021.
Botti moves to the literary management and production company after 15 years at Industry Entertainment.
His clients include Malcolm Spellman, Sara Acosta, Sarah Carbiener, Lex Edness Jesse Gordon, JaNeika & JaSheika James, Jess Pineda, Eyal Podell & Jonathon Stewart, Erica Rosbe, Celine Robinson, Samantha Stratton (EP and creator of Spinning Out...
Botti moves to the literary management and production company after 15 years at Industry Entertainment.
His clients include Malcolm Spellman, Sara Acosta, Sarah Carbiener, Lex Edness Jesse Gordon, JaNeika & JaSheika James, Jess Pineda, Eyal Podell & Jonathon Stewart, Erica Rosbe, Celine Robinson, Samantha Stratton (EP and creator of Spinning Out...
- 4/19/2024
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Paramount has pre-emptively acquired John Swetnam’s action-comedy feature spec script, Ballistic.
The logline is being kept secret.
Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, who were behind last spring’s Paramount $208M-plus event movie, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, will produce through their GoldDay banner with Sara Smith.
Jon Gonda is overseeing the project for Paramount alongside Goldstein and Daley who have a first-look deal at the studio.
Swetnam wrote and co-produced the New Line Matt Walsh tornado action movie, Into the Storm, which grossed over $161M WW. He also wrote 2014’s Step Up All In, which is part of the Step Up franchise. Swetnam also directed, wrote and produced the 2015 dance movie, Breaking Through. He is represented by CAA, Michael Botti, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman.
Goldstein and Daley are represented by CAA, Fourth Wall Management, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman.
Paramount’s music biopic, Bob Marley: One Love...
The logline is being kept secret.
Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, who were behind last spring’s Paramount $208M-plus event movie, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, will produce through their GoldDay banner with Sara Smith.
Jon Gonda is overseeing the project for Paramount alongside Goldstein and Daley who have a first-look deal at the studio.
Swetnam wrote and co-produced the New Line Matt Walsh tornado action movie, Into the Storm, which grossed over $161M WW. He also wrote 2014’s Step Up All In, which is part of the Step Up franchise. Swetnam also directed, wrote and produced the 2015 dance movie, Breaking Through. He is represented by CAA, Michael Botti, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman.
Goldstein and Daley are represented by CAA, Fourth Wall Management, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman.
Paramount’s music biopic, Bob Marley: One Love...
- 3/20/2024
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Lotus Entertainment has acquired and will finance the comedy spec Parents Weekend from screenwriter Peter Scott, an expected R-rated comedy about a couple who take advantage of their freshman son's parents weekend to have the college experience they never had while visiting him. The feature will be produced by Film 360’s Daniel Rappaport and Ben Forkner with Industry Entertainment’s Andrew Deane and Michael Botti. Scott is the author of two comedic books told…...
- 6/1/2015
- Deadline
Jim Seibel and Bill Johnson’s company will finance and handle international sales after acquiring Peter Scott’s spec R-rated comedy screenplay.
Film 360’s Daniel Rappaport and Ben Forkner will produce with Industry Entertainment’s Andrew Deane and Michael Botti.
Will Speck and Josh Gordon will serve as executive producers alongside Seibel, Johnson and Ara Keshishian.
The project centres on a couple who visit their freshman son at during parent’s weekend and enjoy the university experience they never had.
Scott (pictured) is the author of two books, Well Groomed and There’s A Spouse In My House: A Humorous Journey Through The First Years Of Marriage.
Lotus Entertainment’s slate includes: David Leveaux’s The Kaiser’s Last Kiss starring Lily James and Christopher Plummer; Tom Tykwer’s A Hologram For A King starring Tom Hanks; Scott Hicks’ Fallen; Sacha Gervasi’s November Criminals with Chloë Grace Moretz and Ansel Elgort; and Tanya Wexler’s [link...
Film 360’s Daniel Rappaport and Ben Forkner will produce with Industry Entertainment’s Andrew Deane and Michael Botti.
Will Speck and Josh Gordon will serve as executive producers alongside Seibel, Johnson and Ara Keshishian.
The project centres on a couple who visit their freshman son at during parent’s weekend and enjoy the university experience they never had.
Scott (pictured) is the author of two books, Well Groomed and There’s A Spouse In My House: A Humorous Journey Through The First Years Of Marriage.
Lotus Entertainment’s slate includes: David Leveaux’s The Kaiser’s Last Kiss starring Lily James and Christopher Plummer; Tom Tykwer’s A Hologram For A King starring Tom Hanks; Scott Hicks’ Fallen; Sacha Gervasi’s November Criminals with Chloë Grace Moretz and Ansel Elgort; and Tanya Wexler’s [link...
- 6/1/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Vega, Baby!, the new production and finance outfit from Ricky Budhrani and Everly producer Adam Ripp, has optioned Black List 2013 genre script Dig, by scribe Adam Taylor Barker. The action-thriller set in the Appalachian Mountains tracks Sol, a tough-as-nails grave digger out for revenge after his father-in-law kidnaps his daughters.
Vega, Baby! opened up shop in August with backing from Singapore-based financiers and recently added an acquisitions and distribution arm, picking up horror pic Ghoul for release in 2015. The company is moving fast on Dig, packaging the project to shoot next year.
Ripp and Everly co-producer Brett Hedblom will produce for Vega, Baby! Productions with Andrew Deane of Industry Entertainment, and Andrew Pfeffer. Rizal Risjad, Ricky Budhrani and Michael Botti are executive producers. Vega, Baby!’s Everly, starring Salma Hayek was acquired by Radius-twc and is awaiting release. Barker is repped by ICM Partners, Industry Entertainment, and attorney Lev...
Vega, Baby! opened up shop in August with backing from Singapore-based financiers and recently added an acquisitions and distribution arm, picking up horror pic Ghoul for release in 2015. The company is moving fast on Dig, packaging the project to shoot next year.
Ripp and Everly co-producer Brett Hedblom will produce for Vega, Baby! Productions with Andrew Deane of Industry Entertainment, and Andrew Pfeffer. Rizal Risjad, Ricky Budhrani and Michael Botti are executive producers. Vega, Baby!’s Everly, starring Salma Hayek was acquired by Radius-twc and is awaiting release. Barker is repped by ICM Partners, Industry Entertainment, and attorney Lev...
- 11/21/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
There is either a couple of football fans or Jerry Maguire/Moneyball with this year’s most liked unproduced screenplay. Close to 300 hundred film executives provided with the Black List creators a top ten of their favorite screenplays of the year and the consensus first overall pick (with 65 votes) comes from the recently featured in Variety (10 Screenwriters to Watch 2012) tandem of Rajiv Joseph & Scott Rothman and their drama which has nothing to do with enlisting in the armed forces. Draft Day – about the day in the life of a fictitious Buffalo Bills Gm appears to currently be in turnaround — which only means I expect to see this greenlight perhaps a little later than sooner – worth noting: top spot almost guarantees that the film will indeed go into production (2006, 2010 and 2011 are the exceptions.) Among the more alluring logline subjects we find on the list, I’d be keen on reading the...
- 12/18/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
No, it's not a serial killer's bucket list.
The annual Blood List represents the best dark genre screenplays in Hollywood that have yet to be made. It’s a great way to support community and get word out about all the original films that should be on Hollywood’s radar.
Here’s how it works straight from the source:
The Blood List was created in 2009 to bring attention to darker, genre unproduced screenplays in Hollywood. A calendar year for a script to be considered for the list is from October 31st to October 31st. Voting is done by 100 industry insiders. The list is known as the 'Top horror screenplays list' but also has scripts in the sci fi, fantasy, thriller, and dark comedy space as well.
Genres included on the list are: Horror, thriller, sci-fi, dark drama, and dark comedies. This year 117 feature executives voted. Each executive chose their top...
The annual Blood List represents the best dark genre screenplays in Hollywood that have yet to be made. It’s a great way to support community and get word out about all the original films that should be on Hollywood’s radar.
Here’s how it works straight from the source:
The Blood List was created in 2009 to bring attention to darker, genre unproduced screenplays in Hollywood. A calendar year for a script to be considered for the list is from October 31st to October 31st. Voting is done by 100 industry insiders. The list is known as the 'Top horror screenplays list' but also has scripts in the sci fi, fantasy, thriller, and dark comedy space as well.
Genres included on the list are: Horror, thriller, sci-fi, dark drama, and dark comedies. This year 117 feature executives voted. Each executive chose their top...
- 11/1/2012
- by Sara Castillo
- FEARnet
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