Teton Ridge Entertainment Names Jen Gorton EVP Of Production & Development
08.12.2023 - 21:01
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EXCLUSIVE: Teton Ridge Entertainment has hired Jen Gorton as EVP Production and Development.
Gorton is part of the new team that’s being assembled by President Jillian Share for the new studio which focuses on projects that celebrate and amplify stories of the American West.
Share’s team also includes Brandon Mattingly and Christina Poray, who are VPs of Production and Development, and Madeleine Moore, Creative Executive.
Gorton will work with Share to oversee creative development and production of their film, television and new media slates.
Gorton was most recently EVP of Film Production at eOne, where she oversaw development and production as well as negotiated worldwide distribution deals for films including The Starling (to Netflix) starring Melissa McCarthy and directed by Ted Melfi, horror prequel Orphan: First Kill (Paramount) and the Academy Award-nominated Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (Focus Features). She also oversaw that company’s upcoming films Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, starring Gerard Butler and Arthur the King, starring Mark Wahlberg and Simu Liu. She and Share worked together in producing the upcoming Freaky Tales, directed by Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, and starring Pedro Pascal, Jay Ellis, and Ben Mendelsohn and Everything’s Going to be Great, starring Bryan Cranston and Allison Janney. Prior to her stint at eOne,
Gorton served as EVP Production and Sales at Sierra/Affinity where she worked on over 100 titles, including the Academy Award-winning films Whiplash, I, Tonya; Spotlight, and Manchester by the Sea as well as Oscar nominees Hell or High Water, Molly’s Game, and Nightcrawler, and the box office hits Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, produced by Guillermo del Toro and Atomic Blonde, starring