Exclusive: Three months after Apa launched a Physical Production department with the hire of Paradigm agents Jay Gilbert and Gil Harari, the agency is expanding the department in a big way by bringing in virtually the entire staff of the Montana Artists Agency, whose sole focus is representing below-the-line talent. Montana toppers Matt Birch and Ralph Berge will serve as Svp and co-heads of Apa’s physical production department alongside Gilbert and Harari. Coming with them from Montana are VP Brady Torgeson, agent Julian Savodivker, agent Amanda Pecora-Sutphen, and business affairs executive Larry Sheffield. While this is not an agency acquisition, it is unclear what the future holds for Montana, whose staff has been gutted by the exodus to Apa, with only two agents remaining, Karen Berch (TV & features) and Nick Malkin (commercials). “I could not be more pleased to have Matt, Ralph and their team join our new...
- 12/3/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Rome's Cinecitta Studios has partnered with Los Angeles-based Montana Artists Agency, whose executive vp Matt Birch will represent Cinecitta in the United States.
Birch plans to help Cinecitta promote the Italian Tax Credit incentive.
Cinecitta's main studio in Rome boasts 22 stages, extensive permanent sets such as an Ancient Roman set fully equipped with set dressing items, a 70,000 square foot outdoor tank and a 25 acre backlot, all located within 99 acres of parkland estates.
In addition, Cinecitta owns and operates Dino Studios, a few miles outside of Rome.
Birch plans to help Cinecitta promote the Italian Tax Credit incentive.
Cinecitta's main studio in Rome boasts 22 stages, extensive permanent sets such as an Ancient Roman set fully equipped with set dressing items, a 70,000 square foot outdoor tank and a 25 acre backlot, all located within 99 acres of parkland estates.
In addition, Cinecitta owns and operates Dino Studios, a few miles outside of Rome.
- 2/21/2010
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Below-the-line juggernaut Montana Artists Agency is bolstering its film department, hiring former Endgame Entertainment exec Matt Birch as senior vp features.
Birch's mandate will be to expand the shop's clients among line producers and a host of other film-production staffers. He previously oversaw physical production at Endgame on productions such as Rian Johnson's "The Brothers Bloom" and Sundance hit "An Education."
Montana president and CEO nm2231083 autoJon Furie[/link] said the hire is a result of the company's strategic expansion into films. "Someone like Matt brings a new perspective," Furie said. "He understands the film world and all the complicated elements of production."
Montana sports clients on a host of television and film productions, including "The Dark Knight," "24" and "Big Love."...
Birch's mandate will be to expand the shop's clients among line producers and a host of other film-production staffers. He previously oversaw physical production at Endgame on productions such as Rian Johnson's "The Brothers Bloom" and Sundance hit "An Education."
Montana president and CEO nm2231083 autoJon Furie[/link] said the hire is a result of the company's strategic expansion into films. "Someone like Matt brings a new perspective," Furie said. "He understands the film world and all the complicated elements of production."
Montana sports clients on a host of television and film productions, including "The Dark Knight," "24" and "Big Love."...
- 2/5/2009
- by By Steven Zeitchik
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Production-financing outfit Endgame Entertainment is upping its game, hiring Robert Norton as CFO, Greg Schenz as head of business and legal affairs and Matt Birch as senior vp physical production.
Norton recently was a film-financing adviser to such production companies as Radar Pictures and Jersey Films. Before that, he was CFO at 3-D digital theater giant Real D, CFO of Landscape Entertainment and COO and CFO of Scott Free Prods. He began his career at Lucasfilm Ltd.
Schenz was head of business and legal affairs at Beacon Pictures, where he oversaw a first-look deal with Walt Disney Pictures. He also was a senior vp business and legal affairs at production outfit Intermedia Films and an associate at Loeb & Loeb Llp. He began his entertainment career at International Film Guarantors.
Birch recently was a production supervisor on such films as Transformers, Mission: Impossible III and The Italian Job as well as a production coordinator on such films as What Lies Beneath, Vanilla Sky and Along Came a Spider. He also was a Paramount Pictures staff production coordinator and a development executive at Tribeca Prods.
Norton recently was a film-financing adviser to such production companies as Radar Pictures and Jersey Films. Before that, he was CFO at 3-D digital theater giant Real D, CFO of Landscape Entertainment and COO and CFO of Scott Free Prods. He began his career at Lucasfilm Ltd.
Schenz was head of business and legal affairs at Beacon Pictures, where he oversaw a first-look deal with Walt Disney Pictures. He also was a senior vp business and legal affairs at production outfit Intermedia Films and an associate at Loeb & Loeb Llp. He began his entertainment career at International Film Guarantors.
Birch recently was a production supervisor on such films as Transformers, Mission: Impossible III and The Italian Job as well as a production coordinator on such films as What Lies Beneath, Vanilla Sky and Along Came a Spider. He also was a Paramount Pictures staff production coordinator and a development executive at Tribeca Prods.
- 7/19/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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