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Peapie, Anonymous Content To Co-Produce Serial Killer Thriller ‘Repent’

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Wednesday November 14, 2012 @ 7:37am PSTTags: Anonymous Content

Kick-Ass producer Kris Thykier‘s Peapie Films and Anonymous Content are partnering on Repent, a thriller based on the true story of Swedish serial killer Thomas Quick. Quick is renown in Sweden for having confessed to killing 30 people in the 1990s. He was convicted and jailed on 8 of the murders, but later said he had made up the entire story. Some of his convictions have been overturned, but the Swedish judicial system has been tarnished as a result. Director Agnieszka Lukasiak (Between Two Fires) spent her early years as a documentarian interviewing Quick at a psychiatric hospital and has maintained a relationship with him for 15 years. The film will be told through the eyes of an investigative journalist. Tim Haslam and Hugo Grumbar’s Embankment Films will handle worldwide distribution and sales. Thykier, who’s also currently working on One Chance for The Weinstein Company, is producer.

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Anonymous Content Signs ’2 Broke Girls’ Star Beth Behrs

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday November 2, 2012 @ 2:56pm PDTTags: 2 Broke Girls, Anonymous Content, Beth Behrs
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Beth Behrs 2 Broke Girls Management CompanyEXCLUSIVE: Actress Beth Behrs has signed with Anonymous Content for management. She previously didn’t have a manager and continues to be repped by CAA. Behrs was one of the breakouts of the … Read More »

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Anonymous Content Signs New ‘Dexter’ Villain Ray Stevenson

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday September 28, 2012 @ 6:02pm PDTTags: Anonymous Content, Ray Stevenson, Showtime Dexter

The management company will represent the actor in all areas. As well as joining Anonymous Content, Ray Stevenson will continue to be repped by WME and Conway van Gelder Grant. The actor also joins Showtime’s … Read More »

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Vendome Teams With Anonymous Content For ‘Bastille Day’ Pic; Pierre Morel To Direct

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday April 17, 2012 @ 12:33pm PDTTags: Anonymous Content, Vendome Pictures

Pierre Morel will helm Bastille Day, the Andrew Baldwin-scripted actioner about a young American artist living in Paris and a washed-up CIA agent who are tasked with diverting an imminent attack on the city. Anonymous Content developed the project with Baldwin … Read More »

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WME And Anonymous Content Sign Joseph Fiennes

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday April 13, 2012 @ 9:01am PDTTags: Anonymous Content, Joseph Fiennes, WME
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Joseph Fiennes has just signed with WME and Anonymous Content. Fiennes, who over the years has starred n such films as Shakespeare in Love, Elizabeth, The Merchant of Venice and Enemy at the Gates, most recently starred in the … Read More »

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Niels Arden Oplev In Talks To Direct ‘Game Theory’ For Summit & Participant Media

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday July 5, 2011 @ 6:48pm PDTTags: Alex Goldstone, Anonymous Content, Niels Arden Oplev, Participant Media, Summit Entertainment, Temple Hill Entertainment

EXCLUSIVE: Niels Arden Oplev is in negotiations to direct Game Theory, a feature for Summit Entertainment and Participant Media. The screenplay, written by Michael Alan Lerner, centers on a college professor and game theorist who gets sucked into a large-scale … Read More »

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Anonymous Content Lands Management Trio To Bolster Talent Roster

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday April 14, 2011 @ 1:21pm PDTTags: Adrianne Palicki, Anna Faris, Anonymous Content, Bill Condon, Cary Fukunaga, David Slade, Doug Wald, Emma Stone, Jonathan Groff, Joseph Kosinski, Katie Cassidy, Lorene Scafaria, Marc Webb, Matt Bomer, Max Minghella, Nathan Lane, Patrick Wilson, Paul Dano, Penn Badgley, Richard Linklater, Robert Pulcini, Robin Wright, Sam Worthington, Samuel L. Jackson, Sandra Chang, Scott Z. Burns, Shari Springer Berman, Stanley Tucci, Steve Golin, Steven Soderbergh, Tony Lipp, William Monahan
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Management/production company Anonymous Content is about to make a major play in the talent game. I’m hearing that Doug Wald is leaving his partnership at Raw Talent, Sandra Chang is leaving as partner at Industry Entertainment, and Tony Lipp is leaving CAA. The trio will lead Anonymous Content’s talent division and create a major infusion of acting clients. It is all taking shape today.

Lipp announced internally on Tuesday that he would leave CAA to be a manager. Wald and Chang dropped the bombshells this morning at their respective management companies. Anonymous has a modest talent business that included four managers and clients like Samuel L. Jackson, Robin Wright, Katie Cassidy, Omar Epps and Adrianne Palicki (just cast as Wonder Woman). The newcomers will greatly expand that list, and a lot of it is emerging talent. Among the actors already set to join: Sam Worthington, Paul Dano, Emma Stone, Penn Badgley, Anna Faris, Max Minghella, Jack Quaid, Patrick Wilson, Justin Chambers, Jessica Walter, Jaime King, Matt Bomer, John Cleese, Blythe Danner, Jonathan Groff, Mamie Gummer, Nathan Lane, Simon Russell Beale and Stanley Tucci. Read More »

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Michel Gondry Meets His Quirky Sensibility Match In Philip K. Dick

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday February 16, 2011 @ 3:19pm PSTTags: Anonymous Content, Colin Farrell, Emily Blunt, Garrett Basch, Len Wiseman, Matt Damon, Michel Gondry, Philip K Dick, Steve Golin, Steve Zaillian
Mike Fleming

Michel Gondry is adapting and is attached to direct Ubik, the legendary book by scifi author Philip K. Dick. Steve Zaillian and Steve Golin are producing through Film Rites and Anonymous Content, with Golin putting up the financing for development … Read More »

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Summit Makes ‘Unexpected’ Pitch Deal

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday February 4, 2011 @ 11:37am PSTTags: Anonymous Content, Josh Duhamel, Katherine Heigl, Meredith Milton, Summit Entertainment, Todd Garner, WME
Mike Fleming

Summit Entertainment has acquired Unexpected, a pitch comedy that will be written by Ian Deitchman and Kristin Rusk Robinson, based on a treatment by Jennifer Eatz. Todd Garner will produce with Eatz. The writers, who scripted the Katherine Heigl-Josh Duhamel-starrer Life As We Know It, this time focus on … Read More »

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In Book Deals: New Regency Taps Swedish Crime Series ‘Three Seconds’, Struggling CBS Films Makes Stephen King’s ‘Stand’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday February 1, 2011 @ 7:40am PSTTags: Amy Baer, Anonymous Content, CBS Films, Colin Farrell, Gerard Butler, Les Moonves, Matthew Fox, New Regency, Shine, Stephen King, Vince Flynn, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

The book-to-movie business is kicking back into gear. Hoping for another Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, New Regency has just acquired Three Seconds, part of a bestselling Swedish crime novel series by Anders Roslund & Borge Hellstrom. Shine will produce and they will set a writer quickly. In Three Seconds, an ex-con who works undercover for the Stockholm police is charged with breaking the Polish mob’s stranglehold on amphetamine dealing in Sweden prisons. The ex-con gets himself arrested so he can infiltrate the mob in a maximum security prison. Beyond the fact his wife is unaware he’s working undercover, the operative’s challenge is to crack the ring and get out before he’s exposed. The book is the fifth novel in the series, was named Sweden’s top crime novel of 2009. The author team is intriguing, considering one’s a former journalist, the other an ex-criminal.The book was published by Silver Oak.  Shine’s Sue Swift brought the book to Regency’s Michelle Kroes to get the deal started and Dan Wilson will oversee for Regency.

In other deals, a film option deal was made for Cutting For Stone, the Abraham Verghese novel optioned by Anonymous Content for its production company.

And Warner Bros and CBS Films will try to turn Stephen King’s celebrated novel The Stand into a feature. Given the spectacularly restrictive budgets that have forced CBS Films to rely on forgettable films like The Back-Up Plan and Extraordinary Measures, it seems likely Warner Bros will have to put up the dough for this to get off the ground. Even then, King’s apocalyptic epic will be very difficult to compress into a feature film, which is why it previously was turned into a 1994 TV miniseries. Each time I write about CBS Films, the question lingers: why did Les Moonves bother to form a feature division in the first place and hire away a capable exec like Amy Baer from Sony only to hobble her by not taking any big swings? Baer has a franchise percolating in Vince Flynn’s Consent to Kill, which focuses on ruthless government operative Mitch Rapp. It’s a Jack Ryan waiting to happen, but though CBS Films last year had discussions with Gerard Butler, Colin Farrell and Lost‘s Matthew Fox for the Rapp role, it still hasn’t happened. A lot has to do with the need to secure a partner. Hey, Les? In the movie business, it’s no guts, no glory. Deadline has heard that a “reconfiguring” is coming to the still struggling movie unit. CBS Films will make more acquisitions to fill the pipeline. Read More »

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William Monahan To Anonymous Content

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday July 12, 2010 @ 1:37pm PDTTags: Anonymous Content, Colin Farrell, GK Films, John Grisham, Keira Knightley, London Boulevard, Michael Sugar, Paramount, The Associate, The Departed, William Monahan
Mike Fleming

monahan_williamWilliam Monahan, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Departed, has signed with management firm Anonymous Content’s Michael Sugar. Sugar joins WME’s Chris Donnelly and attorney David Fox on Monahan’s rep team. Monahan is in post-production on London Boulevard, making his directing debut … Read More »

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