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Managers David Lonner & Larry Shuman On Merger Path

By NELLIE ANDREEVA AND MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday November 28, 2011 @ 1:38pm PSTTags: David Shore, David Zabel, JJ Abrams, Jon Turteltaub, Michael Tolkin, Rob Minkoff, Shawn Ryan

EXCLUSIVE: Top literary managers David Lonner and Larry Shuman are in serious talks to merge their companies, Oasis Media Group and The Shuman Co, respectively. In the scenario being discussed, Shuman and Lonner and his Oasis partner John Mass would join forces under the Oasis umbrella, tied to an effort to secure financing to expand the business. If it closes, the merger would bring under the same roof such feature and TV heavyweights as JJ Abrams, Brad Silberling, Jon Turteltaub, Shawn Ryan and David Shore. While 2-year-old Oasis has some TV clients — crossover A-lister Abrams and ER and Detroit 1-8-7 showrunner David Zabel — the company skews heavily towards features with a client list that includes Abrams, Silberling, Turteltaub, Peter Sollett, Michael Tolkin, Audrey Wells and Rob Minkoff. Meanwhile, Shuman, who has run his boutique company for 20 years, has a TV-heavy roster that includes House creator Shore, The Shield creator Ryan, Hunt Baldwin & John Coveny (co-creators of A&E’s upcoming series Longmire) and The Inside and Drive co-creator Tim Minear. Among Shuman’s handful of crossover clients is TV writer Carl Ellsworth, who segued into features with Red Eye and Disturbia. But overall, there is little overlap between Oasis and the Shuman Co’s areas of coverage, making a merger one where the pieces fit and would give the combined company heft in both film and television. READ MORE »

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IFC Buys Rob Minkoff’s ‘Flypaper’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday March 24, 2011 @ 12:38pm PDTTags: Flypaper, IFC Films, Rob Minkoff
Mike Fleming

New York, NY (March 24, 2011) – IFC Films announced today that the company is acquiring U.S. rights to director Rob Minkoff’s (THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM, THE LION KING) robbery comedy FLYPAPER from Foresight Unlimited. Produced by Mark Damon, Patrick Dempsey, and Peter Safran, the film stars Dempsey (GREY’S ANATOMY),

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James V. Hart Scripts Rob Minkoff’s ‘Chinese Odyssey’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday September 1, 2010 @ 10:40am PDTTags: China Film Group, Flying Tigers, Rob Minkoff
Mike Fleming

Screenwriter James V. Hart has signed on to write Chinese Odyssey, a 3D action adventure fantasy that will be directed by The Lion King‘s Rob Minkoff. The plan is to shoot the film in China by next spring in what would be the first major feature film developed with Chinese … Read More »

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