Exclusive: Adam Paulsen, a former VP at 30West and CAA film finance agent, has joined venture capitalist David Carrico’s indie production company Valparaiso Pictures as managing partner. The company, which launched in August to produce and invest in film and TV projects, also said today it elevated Bobby Hoppey to VP Development to help oversee the slates.
Valparaiso’s pipeline already includes After Perfect, a feature film based on Christina McDowell’s 2016 memoir that is being adapted by What They Had director Elizabeth Chomko and produced with Matt Reeves’ 6th & Idaho Productions and Joshua Thurston. It also is producing and financing Straight Up, the feature directorial debut of James Sweeney who stars in the romantic comedy alongside Katie Findlay.
The company also executive produced The Sound of Silence, which is world premiering in competition at next month’s Sundance Film Festival.
“I couldn’t be more thrilled to partner...
Valparaiso’s pipeline already includes After Perfect, a feature film based on Christina McDowell’s 2016 memoir that is being adapted by What They Had director Elizabeth Chomko and produced with Matt Reeves’ 6th & Idaho Productions and Joshua Thurston. It also is producing and financing Straight Up, the feature directorial debut of James Sweeney who stars in the romantic comedy alongside Katie Findlay.
The company also executive produced The Sound of Silence, which is world premiering in competition at next month’s Sundance Film Festival.
“I couldn’t be more thrilled to partner...
- 12/19/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Venture capitalist and entrepreneur David Carrico has launched Valparaiso Pictures, a Los Angeles-based film and TV development, production and finance company. It already has its first project in the works in After Perfect, a feature film based on Christina McDowell’s 2016 memoir that is being adapted by Elizabeth Chomko and produced with Matt Reeves’ 6th & Idaho Productions and Joshua Thurston.
Carrico is co-founder of music and entertainment tech consulting firm Cmg LLC among other companies, and has invested in more than 20 startups. He has brought aboard as director of development Echo Lake Entertainment’s Bobby Hoppey, who oversaw Echo Lake’s film slate and worked with its management clients.
“We’re so excited to be launching Valparaiso with After Perfect and the talented Elizabeth,” Carrico said. “It’s an exciting time in the media industry, and we’re thrilled to be here to champion our fellow filmmakers, whether it...
Carrico is co-founder of music and entertainment tech consulting firm Cmg LLC among other companies, and has invested in more than 20 startups. He has brought aboard as director of development Echo Lake Entertainment’s Bobby Hoppey, who oversaw Echo Lake’s film slate and worked with its management clients.
“We’re so excited to be launching Valparaiso with After Perfect and the talented Elizabeth,” Carrico said. “It’s an exciting time in the media industry, and we’re thrilled to be here to champion our fellow filmmakers, whether it...
- 8/17/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Anya Taylor-Joy, who broke onto the scene with her lauded performance in A24’s The Witch, has been tapped as the title character in Weetzie Bat, the film adaptation of Francesca Lia Block’s cult favorite 1980s novel that Justin Kelly is directing. Love, Simon star Nick Robinson, American Honey standout Sasha Lane, Theodore Pellerin (Boy Erased) and Keiynan Lonsdale also will star in the pic, which is described as a neon-lit fairy tale.
Weetzie (Taylor-Joy) is an ethereal pixie living in 1980s Los Angeles, where she grew up the child of an alcoholic starlet mother and a junkie screenwriter father. She teams up with her Mohawked best friend Dirk (Pellerin) to find love, leading her to mysterious trenchcoat-wearing filmmaker Max (Robinson) and platinum-haired surfer Duck (Lonsdale). But when their bliss is threatened by deaths, breakups and Max’s witchy and bitter ex-girlfriend Vixanne (Lane...
Weetzie (Taylor-Joy) is an ethereal pixie living in 1980s Los Angeles, where she grew up the child of an alcoholic starlet mother and a junkie screenwriter father. She teams up with her Mohawked best friend Dirk (Pellerin) to find love, leading her to mysterious trenchcoat-wearing filmmaker Max (Robinson) and platinum-haired surfer Duck (Lonsdale). But when their bliss is threatened by deaths, breakups and Max’s witchy and bitter ex-girlfriend Vixanne (Lane...
- 7/11/2018
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Film is set to premiere at Tribeca this weekend.
UK based sales outfit Film Constellation has inked several deals on its Rebecca Hall and Dan Stevens-starring romantic comedy Permission.
TF1 Studio has picked up France distribution rights, while the film has also gone to Portugal (Outsider), Turkey (Bir Films) and Middle East (Falcon Films).
Deals were previously struck for South Korea (SYcomad) and China (Red Appolo) at Hong Kong Filmart.
Beauty And The Beast actor Stevens stars alongside Christine and The Prestige actor Rebecca Hall, who will also be seen in Oren Moverman’s The Dinner this year.
The film, which premieres at Tribeca on Saturday (April 22) and will screen in the market at Cannes next month, follows a couple who decide to try dating other people before they commit to spending the rest of their lives together.
The cast also features Gina Gershon, Francois Arnaud, Morgan Spector, David Joseph Craig, [link...
UK based sales outfit Film Constellation has inked several deals on its Rebecca Hall and Dan Stevens-starring romantic comedy Permission.
TF1 Studio has picked up France distribution rights, while the film has also gone to Portugal (Outsider), Turkey (Bir Films) and Middle East (Falcon Films).
Deals were previously struck for South Korea (SYcomad) and China (Red Appolo) at Hong Kong Filmart.
Beauty And The Beast actor Stevens stars alongside Christine and The Prestige actor Rebecca Hall, who will also be seen in Oren Moverman’s The Dinner this year.
The film, which premieres at Tribeca on Saturday (April 22) and will screen in the market at Cannes next month, follows a couple who decide to try dating other people before they commit to spending the rest of their lives together.
The cast also features Gina Gershon, Francois Arnaud, Morgan Spector, David Joseph Craig, [link...
- 4/20/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Paul Feig’s Feigco Entertainment has tapped Jessie Henderson to be the company’s executive vice president. Henderson, who leaves Chernin Entertainment to take this job, will be in charge of finding and developing new projects for the company to produce as well as shepherding the ones generated internally. Feigco Entertainment has a first look deal at Fox to fine commercial and edgy R rated comedies in the spirit of his hit Bridesmaids. His latest, The Heat, opens in June. Feig also recently set with Chernin Entertainment a mother daughter comedy to be scripted by The Heat writer Katie Dippold, so between The Heat and that film, there’s been a lot of co-mingling with the Chernin folks. Feig also promoted Joshua Thurston.
- 4/16/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
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