On the eve of Cannes, film financing and sales outfit Mister Smith Entertainment has made several key promotions as well as adding a new hire to its team.
Shane Kelly, who has been with the company since 2019, is being promoted to senior vice president, international sales and acquisitions. In this new role, he will continue to oversee sales and distribution efforts while formalizing the addition of project acquisitions as part of his purview, continuing to report to Mister Smith CEO David Garrett. In his previous role as VP international sales and distribution, Kelly has been instrumental in helping manage the company’s slate through sales, financing, marketing and distribution.
In addition, Emma Mason is being promoted to vice president, international marketing and publicity and will continue to lead the marketing and publicity team and oversee festival strategy for the Mister Smith slate.
Katie Hogan is being promoted to distribution and marketing executive,...
Shane Kelly, who has been with the company since 2019, is being promoted to senior vice president, international sales and acquisitions. In this new role, he will continue to oversee sales and distribution efforts while formalizing the addition of project acquisitions as part of his purview, continuing to report to Mister Smith CEO David Garrett. In his previous role as VP international sales and distribution, Kelly has been instrumental in helping manage the company’s slate through sales, financing, marketing and distribution.
In addition, Emma Mason is being promoted to vice president, international marketing and publicity and will continue to lead the marketing and publicity team and oversee festival strategy for the Mister Smith slate.
Katie Hogan is being promoted to distribution and marketing executive,...
- 5/13/2024
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Lamorne Morris and Iris Apatow are set to join the cast of Netflix’s “Unstable” for Season 2.
Morris will play recurring guest star Peter. The charismatic founder of a biotech start-up, Peter’s rising star manages to stoke the already intense rivalry between Ellis (Rob Lowe) and Jackson (John Owen Lowe).
Apatow will play recurring guest star Georgia, Anna’s (Sian Clifford) irreverent ex-stepdaughter turned unwilling Dragon intern. She copes with office life by stirring up trouble and making Anna’s life more difficult whenever possible.
In addition to the father-son duo, they’re joined by returning cast members Sian Clifford, Rachel Marsh, Emma Ferreira and Aaron Branch in the upcoming season. Fred Armisen will also reprise his guest starring role as Leslie, Ellis’s board-appointed therapist who is desperate to be liked and be friends with Ellis.
The comedy follows Ellis Dragon, a universally admired, eccentric, narcissist-adjacent biotech entrepreneur...
Morris will play recurring guest star Peter. The charismatic founder of a biotech start-up, Peter’s rising star manages to stoke the already intense rivalry between Ellis (Rob Lowe) and Jackson (John Owen Lowe).
Apatow will play recurring guest star Georgia, Anna’s (Sian Clifford) irreverent ex-stepdaughter turned unwilling Dragon intern. She copes with office life by stirring up trouble and making Anna’s life more difficult whenever possible.
In addition to the father-son duo, they’re joined by returning cast members Sian Clifford, Rachel Marsh, Emma Ferreira and Aaron Branch in the upcoming season. Fred Armisen will also reprise his guest starring role as Leslie, Ellis’s board-appointed therapist who is desperate to be liked and be friends with Ellis.
The comedy follows Ellis Dragon, a universally admired, eccentric, narcissist-adjacent biotech entrepreneur...
- 12/7/2023
- by BreAnna Bell
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: A feature film about the escapades of little-known Canadian spy Winthrop Bell is in development.
Toronto-based Wildling Pictures has optioned ‘Cracking the Nazi Code’, a historical spy story from author and philosophy professor Jason Bell, and has attached Adam Yorke to develop it for the big screen.
Screenwriter Yorke is best known for Canadian thriller See For Me, which he co-wrote and co-produced. The film premiered at Tribeca in 2021 and was a major seller for Elle Driver. It was released in the U.S. by IFC Midnight, as we first revealed in August 2021.
‘Cracking the Nazi Code’ tells the story of Bell, a spy whose work is only just being recognized, almost six decades after his death. Known as the MI6 secret agent A12, he was among the first to understand the threat posed by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.
The book begins in...
Toronto-based Wildling Pictures has optioned ‘Cracking the Nazi Code’, a historical spy story from author and philosophy professor Jason Bell, and has attached Adam Yorke to develop it for the big screen.
Screenwriter Yorke is best known for Canadian thriller See For Me, which he co-wrote and co-produced. The film premiered at Tribeca in 2021 and was a major seller for Elle Driver. It was released in the U.S. by IFC Midnight, as we first revealed in August 2021.
‘Cracking the Nazi Code’ tells the story of Bell, a spy whose work is only just being recognized, almost six decades after his death. Known as the MI6 secret agent A12, he was among the first to understand the threat posed by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.
The book begins in...
- 11/1/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Mister Smith Entertainment has clinched first key international sales on Weston Razooli’s “Riddle of Fire.”
Among major territories, Mister Smith has closed Japan (Klockworx), France (ASC Distribution) and Spain (Flamingo Films). Deals build on a co-u.S acquisition by Yellow Veil Pictures and Vinegar Syndrome, which plan a domestic theatrical bow in early 2024, releasing the film on 35mm.
“Riddle of Fire” has also been sold to Portugal (Leopardo Filmes), Greece (Odeon) and Femeway/The Film Group and Front Row Filmed Entertainment for the Middle East, Singapore (the Shaw Organization), ex-Yugoslavia (Blitz Film) and worldwide airlines and ships (Anuvu).
Razooli’s first feature made its debut in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight and its North American premiere as the Toronto Festival’s Midnight Madness closing-night film.
A highlight on Mister Smith’s AFM slate, “Riddle of Fire” has additional territories in negotiations, which Mse will attempt to close in Santa Monica.
Shot...
Among major territories, Mister Smith has closed Japan (Klockworx), France (ASC Distribution) and Spain (Flamingo Films). Deals build on a co-u.S acquisition by Yellow Veil Pictures and Vinegar Syndrome, which plan a domestic theatrical bow in early 2024, releasing the film on 35mm.
“Riddle of Fire” has also been sold to Portugal (Leopardo Filmes), Greece (Odeon) and Femeway/The Film Group and Front Row Filmed Entertainment for the Middle East, Singapore (the Shaw Organization), ex-Yugoslavia (Blitz Film) and worldwide airlines and ships (Anuvu).
Razooli’s first feature made its debut in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight and its North American premiere as the Toronto Festival’s Midnight Madness closing-night film.
A highlight on Mister Smith’s AFM slate, “Riddle of Fire” has additional territories in negotiations, which Mse will attempt to close in Santa Monica.
Shot...
- 11/1/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Sales executive Antone Saliba has left to pursue a new venture.
UK sales outfit Mister Smith Entertainment has hired Great Point Media’s Augusta ‘Goose’ Charlton as director, international sales and acquisitions.
Charlton was an associate director in their investments team, responsible for sourcing and structuring film and TV production finance opportunities in the UK and international markets. Prior to that, she was a sales executive at Great Point Media representing them at international markets, working across titles including Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, Charlotte Regan’s Scrapper and Georgia Oakley’s Blue Jean.
Charlton started her entertainment career in...
UK sales outfit Mister Smith Entertainment has hired Great Point Media’s Augusta ‘Goose’ Charlton as director, international sales and acquisitions.
Charlton was an associate director in their investments team, responsible for sourcing and structuring film and TV production finance opportunities in the UK and international markets. Prior to that, she was a sales executive at Great Point Media representing them at international markets, working across titles including Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, Charlotte Regan’s Scrapper and Georgia Oakley’s Blue Jean.
Charlton started her entertainment career in...
- 10/27/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Mister Smith Entertainment has hired Augusta Charlton as director, international sales and acquisitions.
Charlton will attend next week’s American Film Market, where Mister Smith’s slate includes “Greedy People,” a darkly comic crime thriller in the vein of the Coen Brothers, from the producers of “Palm Springs,” and featuring an ensemble cast including Lily James, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Himesh Patel and Tim Blake Nelson; “Joey Lauren Adams” from director Potsy Ponciroli (“Old Henry”); and the contemporary romantic comedy adaptation of Goethe’s 1774 novel “Young Werther,” starring Douglas Booth, Alison Pill, Patrick J. Adams and Iris Apatow, written and directed by José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço.
Charlton joins the company from Great Point Media, where she was an associate director in their investments team. Prior to that, she was a sales executive at Gpm representing them at international markets.
Charlton started her entertainment career in development and production working for CrossDay Productions and BBC Studios,...
Charlton will attend next week’s American Film Market, where Mister Smith’s slate includes “Greedy People,” a darkly comic crime thriller in the vein of the Coen Brothers, from the producers of “Palm Springs,” and featuring an ensemble cast including Lily James, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Himesh Patel and Tim Blake Nelson; “Joey Lauren Adams” from director Potsy Ponciroli (“Old Henry”); and the contemporary romantic comedy adaptation of Goethe’s 1774 novel “Young Werther,” starring Douglas Booth, Alison Pill, Patrick J. Adams and Iris Apatow, written and directed by José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço.
Charlton joins the company from Great Point Media, where she was an associate director in their investments team. Prior to that, she was a sales executive at Gpm representing them at international markets.
Charlton started her entertainment career in development and production working for CrossDay Productions and BBC Studios,...
- 10/27/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Mister Smith Entertainment has hired Augusta Charlton as Director, International Sales & Acquisitions.
Charlton joins the company from Great Point Media (Gpm), where she was an Associate Director in their Investments team, responsible for sourcing and structuring film and TV production finance opportunities in the UK and international markets. Prior to that, she was a sales executive at Gpm, representing the company at international markets. Charlton started her entertainment career in development and production, working for CrossDay Productions and BBC Studios.
During her previous tenure at Gpm, Charlton oversaw multiple film projects, including Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City; the 2023 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner, Scrapper, starring Harris Dickinson; Blue Jean, starring Rosy McEwen, who won the Best Lead Performance Award for the film at the 2022 British Independent Film Awards; and Rogue Agent starring James Norton and Gemma Arterton.
Charlton’s first sales market for Mister Smith Entertainment will be the upcoming AFM,...
Charlton joins the company from Great Point Media (Gpm), where she was an Associate Director in their Investments team, responsible for sourcing and structuring film and TV production finance opportunities in the UK and international markets. Prior to that, she was a sales executive at Gpm, representing the company at international markets. Charlton started her entertainment career in development and production, working for CrossDay Productions and BBC Studios.
During her previous tenure at Gpm, Charlton oversaw multiple film projects, including Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City; the 2023 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner, Scrapper, starring Harris Dickinson; Blue Jean, starring Rosy McEwen, who won the Best Lead Performance Award for the film at the 2022 British Independent Film Awards; and Rogue Agent starring James Norton and Gemma Arterton.
Charlton’s first sales market for Mister Smith Entertainment will be the upcoming AFM,...
- 10/27/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
The contemporary romantic comedy also stars Patrick J. Adams and Iris Apatow.
UK sales outfit Mister Smith Entertainment is launching international sales at the upcoming American Film Market, with CAA Media Finance overseeing US sales, on the contemporary romantic comedy adaptation of German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s hit 1774 novel, Young Werther.
A first-look image featuring Alison Pill and Douglas Booth has also been unveiled.
They are joined in the starry cast by Patrick J. Adams and Iris Apatow, with Canadian filmmaker José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço making his feature debut as director. He also penned the screenplay.
Young...
UK sales outfit Mister Smith Entertainment is launching international sales at the upcoming American Film Market, with CAA Media Finance overseeing US sales, on the contemporary romantic comedy adaptation of German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s hit 1774 novel, Young Werther.
A first-look image featuring Alison Pill and Douglas Booth has also been unveiled.
They are joined in the starry cast by Patrick J. Adams and Iris Apatow, with Canadian filmmaker José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço making his feature debut as director. He also penned the screenplay.
Young...
- 10/26/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Douglas Booth, Alison Pill and Iris Apatow have joined an adaptation of the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe classic “The Sorrows of Young Werther.”
The film, simply titled “Young Werther,” is produced by Toronto-based film and TV outfit Wildling Pictures, which describes the project as a modern retelling of the book.
Booth (“That Dirty Black Bag”) and Pill (“Scott Pilgrim vs. the World”) will take lead roles, with Apatow (“The Bubble”) also set to star along Patrick J. Adams (“Suits”). Production will begin this month in Toronto.
Drawing from Goethe’s passionate personal accounts, which were first published in letter form in 1774, “Young Werther” is the story of a charmingly irresponsible and enthusiastic young man named Werther (Booth) who finds himself at the mercy of Charlotte (Pill), whose allure and commitment to her impressive fiancé Albert turns Werther’s life upside down.
The project marks the feature directorial debut for José...
The film, simply titled “Young Werther,” is produced by Toronto-based film and TV outfit Wildling Pictures, which describes the project as a modern retelling of the book.
Booth (“That Dirty Black Bag”) and Pill (“Scott Pilgrim vs. the World”) will take lead roles, with Apatow (“The Bubble”) also set to star along Patrick J. Adams (“Suits”). Production will begin this month in Toronto.
Drawing from Goethe’s passionate personal accounts, which were first published in letter form in 1774, “Young Werther” is the story of a charmingly irresponsible and enthusiastic young man named Werther (Booth) who finds himself at the mercy of Charlotte (Pill), whose allure and commitment to her impressive fiancé Albert turns Werther’s life upside down.
The project marks the feature directorial debut for José...
- 5/17/2023
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
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