Ryan Coogler’s Proximity Media has boarded an untitled Prince music inspired film at Universal Pictures, Deadline has confirmed.
Ryan Coogler, Zinzi Coogler, and Sev Ohanian are producing, and Rebecca Cho will executive produce through Proximity Media. Chairman and CEO of Universal Music Publishing Group Jody Gerson will also produce.
Bryan Edward Hill (Titans TV series) wrote a previous draft for the film.
Proximity Media is a multi-media company founded by the Cooglers and Ohanian, and co-founded by 2x Oscar winning composer Ludwig Göransson, Archie Davis and Peter Nicks with a mission to create event-driven feature films, television, soundtracks, and podcasts that bring audiences closer together through stories involving often-overlooked subject matters. Proximity’s film projects include two-time Academy Award-winning Judas and the Black Messiah and Space Jam: A New Legacy.
Upcoming, Proximity is readying production on Ryan Coogler’s highly anticipated untitled event film at Warner Bros. The film...
Ryan Coogler, Zinzi Coogler, and Sev Ohanian are producing, and Rebecca Cho will executive produce through Proximity Media. Chairman and CEO of Universal Music Publishing Group Jody Gerson will also produce.
Bryan Edward Hill (Titans TV series) wrote a previous draft for the film.
Proximity Media is a multi-media company founded by the Cooglers and Ohanian, and co-founded by 2x Oscar winning composer Ludwig Göransson, Archie Davis and Peter Nicks with a mission to create event-driven feature films, television, soundtracks, and podcasts that bring audiences closer together through stories involving often-overlooked subject matters. Proximity’s film projects include two-time Academy Award-winning Judas and the Black Messiah and Space Jam: A New Legacy.
Upcoming, Proximity is readying production on Ryan Coogler’s highly anticipated untitled event film at Warner Bros. The film...
- 3/23/2024
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
If the measure of a good documentary about a superstar athlete is in synthesizing what makes its subject tick, “Stephen Curry: Underrated” gets passing grades. And that’s no small compliment, considering the movie spends most of its time at school, a familiar place for director Peter Nicks, whose previous doc, “Homeroom,” served up a very different look at education. With enough fresh stories to keep basketball fanatics engaged and a coda that every soccer mom will appreciate, this is a film that’s worthy of its subject.
Produced in part by Curry’s Unanimous Media, “Underrated” leans on abundant clips of the hoop star’s career and interviews with family, coaches and college teammates, as well as fly-on-the-wall moments that come with the kind of access filmmakers get when the subject helps to drive the project. Nicks casts Curry as an undersized underdog-turned-college phenom who becomes a four-time NBA...
Produced in part by Curry’s Unanimous Media, “Underrated” leans on abundant clips of the hoop star’s career and interviews with family, coaches and college teammates, as well as fly-on-the-wall moments that come with the kind of access filmmakers get when the subject helps to drive the project. Nicks casts Curry as an undersized underdog-turned-college phenom who becomes a four-time NBA...
- 4/29/2023
- by Bill Edelstein
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Oscar-winning filmmaker Tom McCarthy’s production company Slow Pony has inked an exclusive first-look film deal with Concordia Studio, the talent-first studio whose most recent production, Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, world premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and will bow on Apple TV+ on May 12.
McCarthy comes to the deal after numerous successful collaborations with Concordia co-founder Jonathan King, who exec produced his Best Picture Oscar winner Spotlight during his tenure as President of Narrative Film and Television at Participant. King also produced McCarthy’s recent Cannes-premiering Matt Damon starrer Stillwater for Focus Features, as well as his 2007 drama The Visitor, which brought Richard Jenkins his first Best Actor Oscar nomination.
The filmmaker will look to build out a diverse slate of features under the Concordia deal, all of which will be in the narrative space, helping the studio to expand in that area after...
McCarthy comes to the deal after numerous successful collaborations with Concordia co-founder Jonathan King, who exec produced his Best Picture Oscar winner Spotlight during his tenure as President of Narrative Film and Television at Participant. King also produced McCarthy’s recent Cannes-premiering Matt Damon starrer Stillwater for Focus Features, as well as his 2007 drama The Visitor, which brought Richard Jenkins his first Best Actor Oscar nomination.
The filmmaker will look to build out a diverse slate of features under the Concordia deal, all of which will be in the narrative space, helping the studio to expand in that area after...
- 4/10/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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