Exclusive: Two-time Emmy-nominated writer Theresa Rebeck is set to pen The Faithful for Concordia Studio, based on the true story of how a fight over land between St. Stanislaus Church and the St. Louis archdiocese became a battle to define the future of Catholicism. The story is based on the life of Father Marek Bozek.
Concordia’s Jonathan King and Patrick Callan are set as producers. Dan O’Brien is also producing.
The WGA- and Peabody-winning Rebeck co-wrote femme spy ensemble The 355 with Simon Kinberg which recently hit theaters via Universal. The movie, also directed by Kinberg, stars Jessica Chastain, Diane Kruger, Lupita Nyong’o, Penélope Cruz and Bingbing Fan.
Additionally, Rebeck wrote and directed the 2018 film Trouble, starring Angelica Huston and Bill Pullman. She also created the NBC musical series Smash, which earned four Emmy nominations in its first season. Rebeck has won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America,...
Concordia’s Jonathan King and Patrick Callan are set as producers. Dan O’Brien is also producing.
The WGA- and Peabody-winning Rebeck co-wrote femme spy ensemble The 355 with Simon Kinberg which recently hit theaters via Universal. The movie, also directed by Kinberg, stars Jessica Chastain, Diane Kruger, Lupita Nyong’o, Penélope Cruz and Bingbing Fan.
Additionally, Rebeck wrote and directed the 2018 film Trouble, starring Angelica Huston and Bill Pullman. She also created the NBC musical series Smash, which earned four Emmy nominations in its first season. Rebeck has won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America,...
- 1/18/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Let The Record Show, written by Sarah Schulman, has been called the most comprehensive political history of American AIDS activism and Act Up.
The book, which was published last month, is now set to be adapted as a narrative TV series by Lean on Pete and Looking director Andrew Haigh, Time and Boys State producer Concordia Studio, and Halston and Carol producer Killer Films.
Haigh is set as showrunner, and will write and direct the pilot episode. He is coming off The North Water, a drama series starring Colin Farrell and Jack O’Connell for the BBC and AMC.
Executive producers include Jonathan King for Concordia Studio, Christine Vachon for Killer Films, as well as David Hinojosa and Schulman. Yasmin Hormozi and Patrick Callan will oversee development for Concordia.
In just six years, Act Up New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities and backgrounds,...
The book, which was published last month, is now set to be adapted as a narrative TV series by Lean on Pete and Looking director Andrew Haigh, Time and Boys State producer Concordia Studio, and Halston and Carol producer Killer Films.
Haigh is set as showrunner, and will write and direct the pilot episode. He is coming off The North Water, a drama series starring Colin Farrell and Jack O’Connell for the BBC and AMC.
Executive producers include Jonathan King for Concordia Studio, Christine Vachon for Killer Films, as well as David Hinojosa and Schulman. Yasmin Hormozi and Patrick Callan will oversee development for Concordia.
In just six years, Act Up New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities and backgrounds,...
- 6/30/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Concordia Studio, the studio set up by An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim and former Participant exec Jonathan King, is adapting Gabriel Bump’s book Everywhere You Don’t Belong for TV.
The Boys State producer, which is backed by Laurene Powell Jobs and her Emerson Collective, is turning the book, which is set on the south side of Chicago, into a half-hour series.
Bump, who published his debut novel last year, will adapt with Concordia’s Patrick Callan and King exec producing.
The book follows Claude McKay Love, a young black man, who searches hard for a place to fit in while at the same time realizing that he has to get out of his beloved city.
Claude isn’t dangerous or brilliant – he’s an average kid coping with abandonment, violence, riots, failed love, and societal pressures as he steers his way past the signposts of youth: childhood friendships,...
The Boys State producer, which is backed by Laurene Powell Jobs and her Emerson Collective, is turning the book, which is set on the south side of Chicago, into a half-hour series.
Bump, who published his debut novel last year, will adapt with Concordia’s Patrick Callan and King exec producing.
The book follows Claude McKay Love, a young black man, who searches hard for a place to fit in while at the same time realizing that he has to get out of his beloved city.
Claude isn’t dangerous or brilliant – he’s an average kid coping with abandonment, violence, riots, failed love, and societal pressures as he steers his way past the signposts of youth: childhood friendships,...
- 4/13/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, Pierce Brosnan will play an engineer who tries to rewind his biological clock, a film about the 1964 Anchorage, Alaska, earthquake is in the works and a Hire Her Back initiative is underway.
Casting
Pierce Brosnan has signed on to star in writer/director Brett Marty’s feature-film adaptation of “Youth,” a short film he directed and co-wrote in 2016.
Highland Film Group is handling the international rights for the science-fiction thriller, with CAA Media Finance handling domestic. Sales will launch at this month’s Marché du Film Online.
Brosnan, who’s 67, will portray an engineer in the near future who’s about to retire at age 70 when his company pays him to undergo a procedure to rewind his body’s biological clock back to its prime. The process goes tragically wrong and his aging begins accelerating rapidly, so he attempts a more dangerous treatment.
“Youth” is co-written by Marty,...
Casting
Pierce Brosnan has signed on to star in writer/director Brett Marty’s feature-film adaptation of “Youth,” a short film he directed and co-wrote in 2016.
Highland Film Group is handling the international rights for the science-fiction thriller, with CAA Media Finance handling domestic. Sales will launch at this month’s Marché du Film Online.
Brosnan, who’s 67, will portray an engineer in the near future who’s about to retire at age 70 when his company pays him to undergo a procedure to rewind his body’s biological clock back to its prime. The process goes tragically wrong and his aging begins accelerating rapidly, so he attempts a more dangerous treatment.
“Youth” is co-written by Marty,...
- 6/10/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Ol Parker has signed on to adapt Jon Mooallem’s recently released book This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, A Voice That Held It Together, which Concordia Studio acquired the rights to develop and produce. Parker will write and direct the film. He’s known for writing and directing Universal’s Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Fox Searchlight’s Imagine Me & You, as well as writing The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and the sequel The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
Concordia co-founder Jonathan King will produce this project. The story takes place spring of 1964 in Anchorage, Alaska, a modern-day frontier town yearning to be a metropolis until the community was jolted by the most powerful earthquake in American history, a catastrophic magnitude of 9.2. For four and a half minutes, the ground lurched and rolled. Streets cracked open and swallowed buildings whole. And once the shaking stopped,...
Concordia co-founder Jonathan King will produce this project. The story takes place spring of 1964 in Anchorage, Alaska, a modern-day frontier town yearning to be a metropolis until the community was jolted by the most powerful earthquake in American history, a catastrophic magnitude of 9.2. For four and a half minutes, the ground lurched and rolled. Streets cracked open and swallowed buildings whole. And once the shaking stopped,...
- 6/10/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, Participant has expanded its social impact campaign on behalf of domestic workers, Concordia Media bulks up and documentary “Funny Pains” gets distribution.
Participant Campaign
Building on its social impact campaign for “Roma,” Participant Media has launched the Care For The People Who Care For You campaign in partnership with the National Domestic Workers Alliance.
The digital initiative aims to galvanize support for domestic workers amid the coronavirus crisis. It features a video, produced by Participant’s digital content studio, SoulPancake, to highlight the impact the Covid-19 crisis has had on domestic workers, of whom 7 out of 10 have lost 100% of their income because of the pandemic. Told from the perspective of a domestic worker navigating health and financial concerns, the goal of the video is to educate and encourage employers to support those employees who care for them every day.
“During this uncertain time, it...
Participant Campaign
Building on its social impact campaign for “Roma,” Participant Media has launched the Care For The People Who Care For You campaign in partnership with the National Domestic Workers Alliance.
The digital initiative aims to galvanize support for domestic workers amid the coronavirus crisis. It features a video, produced by Participant’s digital content studio, SoulPancake, to highlight the impact the Covid-19 crisis has had on domestic workers, of whom 7 out of 10 have lost 100% of their income because of the pandemic. Told from the perspective of a domestic worker navigating health and financial concerns, the goal of the video is to educate and encourage employers to support those employees who care for them every day.
“During this uncertain time, it...
- 4/17/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
As Concordia Studio continues to grow, they have hired on Yasmin Hormozi and Patrick Callan as Vice Presidents of narrative film and television.
The company was founded by Davis Guggenheim and Jonathan King alongside Laurene Powell Jobs and Emerson Collective. It launched at Sundance with the premiere of four films: Boy State (directed by Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine), Time (directed by Garrett Bradley), A Thousand Cuts (directed by Ramona S. Diaz) and Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (directed by Bill Ross and Turner Ross). Concordia also produced and financed Laura Nix’s Oscar-nominated Walk Run Cha-Cha.
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“Yasmin and Patrick each bring unique experiences and perspectives to Concordia, but they are alike in...
The company was founded by Davis Guggenheim and Jonathan King alongside Laurene Powell Jobs and Emerson Collective. It launched at Sundance with the premiere of four films: Boy State (directed by Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine), Time (directed by Garrett Bradley), A Thousand Cuts (directed by Ramona S. Diaz) and Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (directed by Bill Ross and Turner Ross). Concordia also produced and financed Laura Nix’s Oscar-nominated Walk Run Cha-Cha.
More from DeadlineDavis Guggenheim And Jonathan King Launch Concordia Studio With Laurene Powell JobsBrian Dennehy Photo Gallery: A Career In PicturesAllen Daviau, 'E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial', 'Empire Of The Sun' Cinematographer Dies Of Coronavirus At 77
“Yasmin and Patrick each bring unique experiences and perspectives to Concordia, but they are alike in...
- 4/16/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Concordia Studio — the recently launched outfit from Davis Guggenheim and Jonathan King — has added Yasmin Hormozi and Patrick Callan to the studio as vps of narrative film and television.
Hormozi previously worked with King at Participant Media, where she served as director of narrative film. Her credits includes Todd Haynes’ Dark Waters, starring Mark Ruffalo, and Mimi Leder’s On the Basis of Sex, starring Felicity Jones.
Callan joins the company from Amazon Studios as a TV comedy exec, having worked on the Golden Globe-winning Mozart in the Jungle, as well as The Tick, Red Oaks and the upcoming Greg Daniels ...
Hormozi previously worked with King at Participant Media, where she served as director of narrative film. Her credits includes Todd Haynes’ Dark Waters, starring Mark Ruffalo, and Mimi Leder’s On the Basis of Sex, starring Felicity Jones.
Callan joins the company from Amazon Studios as a TV comedy exec, having worked on the Golden Globe-winning Mozart in the Jungle, as well as The Tick, Red Oaks and the upcoming Greg Daniels ...
- 4/16/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Concordia Studio — the recently launched outfit from Davis Guggenheim and Jonathan King — has added Yasmin Hormozi and Patrick Callan to the studio as vps of narrative film and television.
Hormozi previously worked with King at Participant Media, where she served as director of narrative film. Her credits includes Todd Haynes’ Dark Waters, starring Mark Ruffalo, and Mimi Leder’s On the Basis of Sex, starring Felicity Jones.
Callan joins the company from Amazon Studios as a TV comedy exec, having worked on the Golden Globe-winning Mozart in the Jungle, as well as The Tick, Red Oaks and the upcoming Greg Daniels ...
Hormozi previously worked with King at Participant Media, where she served as director of narrative film. Her credits includes Todd Haynes’ Dark Waters, starring Mark Ruffalo, and Mimi Leder’s On the Basis of Sex, starring Felicity Jones.
Callan joins the company from Amazon Studios as a TV comedy exec, having worked on the Golden Globe-winning Mozart in the Jungle, as well as The Tick, Red Oaks and the upcoming Greg Daniels ...
- 4/16/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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