Exclusive: Verve talent agency is bolstering its roster with a number of high-level executive producers and directors from Dick Wolf’s camp, including Arthur Forney, Fred Berner, Reza Tabrizi, Jim McKay, Michael Pressman, as well as consultant Connie Rice. The additions follow Verve’s acquisition of Paul Alan Smith’s New Deal Mfg. Co. last month.
Forney has been an integral player in the Wolf Camp, overseeing all post-production. Since joining Wolf in 1990 with the launch of Law & Order, Forney has since been an executive producer on FBI, FBI: Most Wanted, Chicago P.D., Chicago Med, Chicago Fire, Law & Order: Svu, currently airing its 22nd season, and the recently debuted Law & Order: Organized Crime, starring Christopher Meloni, who returns as fan favorite Elliot Stabler.
Also joining Verve is Berner, who recently directed and executive produced the pilot of Law & Order: Organized Crime, which premiered last...
Forney has been an integral player in the Wolf Camp, overseeing all post-production. Since joining Wolf in 1990 with the launch of Law & Order, Forney has since been an executive producer on FBI, FBI: Most Wanted, Chicago P.D., Chicago Med, Chicago Fire, Law & Order: Svu, currently airing its 22nd season, and the recently debuted Law & Order: Organized Crime, starring Christopher Meloni, who returns as fan favorite Elliot Stabler.
Also joining Verve is Berner, who recently directed and executive produced the pilot of Law & Order: Organized Crime, which premiered last...
- 4/6/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Updated, 12:39 Pm: An associate producer on the former Weinstein Company series Marco Polo has filed an amended complaint charging sexual and physical abuse by Harvey Weinstein. Alexandra Canosa’s filing Monday in New York Supreme Court (read it here) details further abuse at the hands of the disgraced mogul, charging that he assaulted her “multiple times” starting in 2010 and “verbally threatened plaintiff not to speak to anyone about his abuse.”
The sprawling, detailed 72-page suit alleges: “On many occasions, Harvey Weinstein insisted on meeting with plaintiff in isolated environments for business purposes, made sure that no other persons or bystanders were around when having business meetings with plaintiff, demanded sexual contact, and threatened plaintiff if she would not give him what he wanted, and forcing himself on plaintiff despite repeated requests to stop.”
The lawsuit also names as defendants the Weinstein Company, Bob Weinstein and others, claiming they failed...
The sprawling, detailed 72-page suit alleges: “On many occasions, Harvey Weinstein insisted on meeting with plaintiff in isolated environments for business purposes, made sure that no other persons or bystanders were around when having business meetings with plaintiff, demanded sexual contact, and threatened plaintiff if she would not give him what he wanted, and forcing himself on plaintiff despite repeated requests to stop.”
The lawsuit also names as defendants the Weinstein Company, Bob Weinstein and others, claiming they failed...
- 5/1/2018
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
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