‘Navalny’ Filmmaker Daniel Roher Signs with Anonymous Content (EXCLUSIVE)

In the wake of last month’s news of Courtney Holt’s exit from Spotify, the company has made several moves in its exec structure as it continues to expand in podcasting and creator-driven content.

EXCLUSIVE: Rising Polish writer-director Natasza Parzymies (Control) has signed with APA for representation.

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) has cast Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) to lead her second feature film.

EXCLUSIVE: James Morosini, the writer, director and star of the splashy SXSW comedy I Love My Dad, has signed with Anonymous Content for management.

Angelique Jackson Marvel star Dominique Thorne has signed with M88 for representation.Thorne will soon make her MCU debut as the comic book character Riri Williams, aka Ironheart, a brilliant inventor who built her own version of the Iron Man suit in an MIT dorm, in the highly-anticipated movie “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” Thorne will then go on to headline her own Disney+ series, “Ironheart.”The young actor made her feature film debut in Oscar-winning filmmaker Barry Jenkins’ critically acclaimed 2018 movie “If Beale Street Could Talk.” She played Sheila Hunt, the younger sister of Fonny Hunt (Stephan James), one half of the movie’s central love story. Thorne next starred opposite Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield in Warner Bros.’ Academy Award-nominated film “Judas and the Black Messiah.” Directed by Shaka King and executive produced by Ryan Coogler and Charles D.

Former EastEnders actress Danniella Westbrook has revealed rare unseen pictures of her children who she has described as 'my world'.The TV personality, 48, posted snaps of her children to her Instagram as she posed with them in an adorable, and rarely seen, picture of her kids. Danniella has two children, Kai, 26 and Jodi, 21, and shared the throwback pictures of her with a huge smile on her face as she stood next to each of her children individually. Danniella accompanied the throwback snap of her son with the caption: "One half of my world." And she added a caption to her later post with her daughter: "The other half of my world." The post came as Danniella was seen out with Jodie on Thursday night.

Angelique Jackson CAA has signed rising star Stephanie Hsu for representation.Already a SAG Award winner for her work as Mei on “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” Hsu has garnered additional acclaim for her breakout performance in “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”In the A24 film by The Daniels’ (Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert), Hsu stars as Joy Wang/Jobu Topaki opposite Michelle Yeoh and Jamie Lee Curtis.

EXCLUSIVE: Julio Peña (Through My Window) has signed with Anonymous Content for management.

EXCLUSIVE: Anonymous Content has promoted Joe Bello, Austin Hegedus, Julia Mok and Ali Lefkowitz—four assistants and coordinators working across its Media Rights and Talent divisions—to Manager. Bello, Hegedus and Mok will be working within the Talent division, with Lefkowitz joining the previously promoted Ryan Wilson as a Manager in Media Rights. In their new roles, Bello, Hegedus, Mok and Lefkowitz will continue to work with and expand Anonymous’ client roster.

EXCLUSIVE: British-American filmmaker Sacha Gervasi (My Dinner with Hervé) has signed with Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment for management.

EXCLUSIVE: Following a competitive situation, Spotlight and Mr. Robot outfit Anonymous Content and Chapter One, the UK production house launched by Anonymous Content, Casarotto and United Agents, have acquired rights to produce a movie adaptation of new book Breadsong.

Christopher Vourlias London-based documentary specialist Dogwoof has closed a host of sales for Daniel Roher’s “Navalny” and Jono McLeod’s “My Old School,” both of which premiered at Sundance and are screening this week at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.Roher’s riveting documentary thriller (pictured above) won the Festival Favorite Award and the U.S. Documentary Audience Award at Sundance.

EXCLUSIVE: WME has inked double BAFTA nominated filmmaker Rose Glass.

Portuguese film director Miguel Gomes is one of the premiere filmmakers of the playfully absurd and the surreal, employing a strange mix of those tones. He dazzled audiences in 2012 with “Tabu,” his surrealist meditation that broke through to international audiences, and then in 2015, he made his opus with the three-part “Arabian Nights” that was six hours in total.

Coronation Street fans were stunned to make a 'rare sighting' just minutes into the latest episode on Wednesday night, April 27, Manchester Evening News reports.

EXCLUSIVE: Crown Media Family Networks has nabbed another big star before the Christmas movie season. Aimeé Teegarden (Friday Night Lights, Star-Crossed) has signed an exclusive multi-picture overall deal with the company.

EXCLUSIVE: NBA superstar Carmelo Anthony has boarded Lil’ Heroes, an animated series based on the NFT collection, from Exile Content Studio and Spanish artist Edgar Plans. Anthony and his producing partner and co-founder of his Creative 7 content company, Asani Swann, will executive produce the series and Anthony also will voice one of the characters in the series.

EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Durant, who starred alongside Emilia Jones, Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur and Eugenio Derbez in Apple’s 2022 Best Picture Oscar winner CODA, has signed with Buchwald for representation.

EXCLUSIVE: Anonymous Content is aggressively bolstering its unscripted television slate with a slew of new projects including music, sports, cooking, dating and documentary series.

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran manager James Jolly has joined Anonymous Content’s Talent Division.