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Scott Free Bolsters Production Ranks; Hires Michael Pruss, Ups Elishia Holmes

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday May 15, 2013 @ 3:39pm PDTTags: Elishia Holmes, Michael Pruss, Ridley Scott, Scott Free
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Scott Free Productions has hired Indian Paintbrush executive Michael Pruss to be senior vice president of Production. Scott Free has separately promoted production executive Elishia Holmes to senior vice president of Production. Both report to Scott Free President Michael Schaefer. Pruss joins Scott Free from Indian Paintbrush where he served as vice president and oversaw the acquisition of the Drake Doremus-directed Like Crazy at the 2011 Sundance Festival. He co-produced the director’s followup, Breathe In, which will be released in the fall. Pruss also developed A Murder Foretold with Chris Terrio, The Signal with Brad Ingelsby, Off The Grid with Chris Cantwell and Chris Rogers and he is a producer on Hold On To Me, the James Marsh-directed thriller that stars Carey Mulligan and Robert Pattinson. Before that he was a Focus Features exec who worked on Milk, The American and Coraline. He was raised in London.

Holmes has been a rising star at Scott Free, where she is part of the team working on the Daniel Espinosa-directed Child 44 with Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman and Gary Oldman, with production beginning June 10. She is an exec producer of that film and is working on the J. Blakeson-directed Wool, as well as the mammoth Moses movie Exodus at Fox and the Blade Runner sequel at Alcon Entertainment, both of which will be directed by Scott Free principal Ridley Scott. She joined Scott Free in 2011 from GK Films, and before that was a vice president of production at Warner Bros for four years, and started as a story editor at Parkes-MacDonald.

“It’s an exciting time at Scott Free and we couldn’t be happier to welcome Michael to the company and to recognize Elisha for all of her contributions to the team”, Schaefer said. “They have impeccable taste and great relationships in the industry and I am confident that both of them are going to help us lead the
company into a successful year ahead.”

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Brad Ingelsby Lands High-Six Figure Indian Paintbrush Deal For ‘The Signal’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday March 22, 2012 @ 10:10am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Brad Ingelsby, Indian Paintbrush, Michael Pruss
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Indian Paintbrush has put the finishing strokes on a high-six figure preemptively acquire The Signal, a pitch by hot scribe Brad Ingelsby. The company is keeping the logline under wraps, but it is a contained family-adventure film that has … Read More »

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‘Like Crazy’ Helmer Drake Doremus Sets Cast For Next Film

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday July 22, 2011 @ 7:43am PDTTags: Amy Ryan, Drake Doremus, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Michael Pruss
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Drake Doremus, who directed the Sundance sensation Like Crazy, has set Guy Pearce, Amy Ryan and Felicity Jones for his next film. Shooting on the untitled pic begins in a month and takes place in upstate New York. It’s … Read More »

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Steven Rales Staffs Indian Paintbrush

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday December 9, 2010 @ 11:29am PSTTags: Indian Paintbrush, Mark Roybal Indian Paintbrush, Michael Pruss, Moon Rise Kingdom, Movies, Steven Rales, Wes Anderson
Mike Fleming

Indian Paintbrush, the film financing/production arm of billionaire industrialist Steven Rales, is staffing up. Rales this fall brought in Mark Roybal to run the company, and the longtime president of Scott Rudin Productions has added two creative executives: Overbrook Entertainment executive Jeff Sommerville has signed on to be senior  veep … Read More »

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‘Dinner For Schmucks’ Scribes Step Up To Direct ‘Cruise Of The Gods’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday July 20, 2010 @ 7:15pm PDTTags: Focus Features, Kahli Small, Michael Pruss
Mike Fleming

dinner_for_schmucksFocus Features will give Dinner For Schmucks scribes David Guion and Michael Handelman their shot at matching director’s chairs. The duo just got set to write and direct Cruise of the Gods, a remake of the 2002 BBC comedy about a … Read More »

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