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UPFRONTS 2013: The Overachievers 
EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Paranormal Activity helmer Oren Peli. Peli leaves CAA, shaking loose from that agency after longtime agents Martin Spencer and Adam Kanter moved to Jeff Berg’s Resolution. Peli is a big piece of business, at the forefront of the micro-budget found-footage horror craze. He produced and oversaw the sequels of Paranormal Activity, produced and scripted Chernobyl Diaries, and produced Insidious and the Rob Zombie-directed Lords Of Salem. Peli most recently wrote and directed Area 51. Peli also co-created The River for ABC last year. He continues to be lawyered by Linda Lichter.
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Anywhere but CAA seems to be the prevailing sentiment these days…
Agreed… Then keep him away from GT at WME and all is good. That guy can’t get anything done.
The BIGGEST mystery is where is AREA 51? Filmed almost 4 years ago! And they hired a new director to ‘amp’ it up.
Loved Insidious! Hated everything else!
More Insidious! Less of everything else!
“this demon has a much more INSIDIOUS AGENDA” (old lady looks at camera)
CAA has no focus or attention span to provide most clients on the lit side, see how well Bryan Bertino did when he dumped CAA too, as fas as the horror genre…
Oren is useless. Everyone at Paramount dislikes the guy and the deal they made with him. Now, he IS a nice guy but he didn’t oversee anything. Adam Goodman pulls the strings over there until his mini-me in training John (my ass is still sore from my days under Clint Culpepper) Graham eventually takes over. Area 51? Worst test screening in Paramount history. The River? Page one rewrite. Oren is the biggest facade in Hollywood but the bigger sham master is Jason Blum. Ask Steven Schneider who really found PA. Mic dropped.
Have you actually graduated high school yet Dreamworker? Are you so bitchy and upset because you were overlooked for prom king or queen?
We love you, Jason!
Interesting that he didn’t follow his agents to Resolution… and also didn’t stay with CAA. He’s a pretty big earner in the horror world in tandem with Jason Blum.
Peli wrote, produced and directed one of the masterpieces of modern horror and singlehandedly upended trainloads of conventional wisdom that had become enshrined in executive suites about found-footage not being a commercial mode of expression. Every studio passed on Paranormal Activity — twice! — but Jason Blum found a creative way to slip it in the back door (as material to “remake”) and then got the movie a third hearing. Blum’s good taste, persistence and creativity (in the face of near-unanimous resistance) are why that movie was released at all.
Hollywood has become so risk-averse that this billion-dollar franchise had to come from a guy who hadn’t been infected with the industry’s creative rigor mortis, and then forced down Paramount’s throat. Good on WME for signing Peli.
Your moniker of “Oren Peli Fanboy” is not fooling anyone, Oren.