‘Two Distant Strangers’ Oscar Winner Travon Free Sets First Look Deal With Endeavor Content

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterThe acclaimed filmmakers behind HBO Max’s recent nonfiction hit “Tina” have inked an exclusive first-look deal with Imagine Documentaries.Dan Lindsay and TJ Martin have entered into a one-year agreement with the division of Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine, it was announced today by leaders Justin Wilkes and Sara Bernstein.Under the deal, Lindsay and Martin will develop and produce projects with the full resources of the label, which currently has its own

Super Bowl champ Russell Wilson and Grammy-winning singer Ciara are bringing their talents to Amazon Studios.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterMichael Showalter and Jordana Mollick of Semi-Formal Productions have signed a two-year first-look deal at HBO Max.Showalter is a co-creator and executive producer on the critically-acclaimed series “Search Party,” which moved over to HBO Max from TBS for its third season. The fourth season of the series debuted on Jan.

Michael Showalter (The Big Sick) is expanding his relationship with HBO Max. Showalter and Jordana Mollick’s Semi-Formal Productions has signed a two-year first look deal with the WarnerMedia streaming platform. Showalter was previously based at Annapurna TV.

EXCLUSIVE: With A Quiet Place II set to become one the first major summer tentpoles to bow in over two years on Memorial Day weekend, Paramount Pictures has moved to make sure its multi-talented writer, director and star stays put for the foreseeable future. Sources tell Deadline that John Krasinski and his production company, Sunday Night, have entered into a first-look producing deal with Paramount, including Sunday Night partners Allyson Seeger and Andrew Form.

EXCLUSIVE: In something of an international coup, Mr Robot and True Detective outfit Anonymous Content has inked a first look deal with Israeli talent and artist agency, The Kneller Agency, which reps a host of the country’s leading film and TV creatives.

NBC’s extremely late-night forays are coming to a close with the end of A Little Late With Lilly Singh.

EXCLUSIVE: Picture Perfect Federation, which recently tapped CODA filmmaker Siân Heder to write and direct a feature adaptation of Sarah Lotz’s novel Impossible, is getting into the scripted podcast business.

EXCLUSIVE: The Witcher writer and producer Jenny Klein has found a new home.

Ryan Reynolds and his Maximum Effort Productions have signed a three-year first-look development deal with Paramount Pictures. The move reteams the indefatigable actor with many of the key executives that formerly ran 20th Century Fox, Reynolds’ home studio of not just his previous deal but also the Deadpool movies that trampolined the actor to new heights of stardom.

Paramount Pictures has closed a three-year first look development deal with Ryan Reynolds’s Maximum Effort Productions. The deal covers motion picture development for all Maximum Efforts projects, at all budget levels. Reynolds (Deadpool 2, Pokémon: Detective Pikachu) and George Dewey (Free Guy, “Don’t”) launched Maximum Effort in 2018, following their successful collaborative efforts on the first two Deadpool films.

Writer-director Travon Free has signed a first-look producing deal with Endeavor Content after, along with co-director Martin Desmond Roe, winning the Oscar for best live-action short for Two Distant Strangers. “Over the last year, I’ve developed some great creative relationships with some wonderful people at Endeavor Content, who I’ve found to be as committed as I am to making art that is not only entertaining, but challenges our society, our culture and the world we live in.

colorful, matching suits were even made to be a statement and tribute to victims of police brutality attacks. “Over the last year I’ve developed some great creative relationships with some wonderful people at Endeavor Content, who I’ve found to be as committed as I am to making art that is not only entertaining but challenges our society, our culture and the world we live in.

EXCLUSIVE: English-language remake rights to Thomas Vinterberg’s Best International Film Oscar winner Another Round have been acquired after an auction. The film will be developed as a potential star vehicle for Leonardo DiCaprio and was won in a bid by his and Jennifer Davisson’s Appian Way, Endeavor Content and Brad Weston’s Makeready. The film will be fully funded by Endeavor Content and Makeready.

The Oscars was a big night for Diddy.

During the opening of the Oscarson Sunday, Regina King made mention of the recentDerek Chauvin verdict. "It has been quite a year, and we are still smack-dab in the middle of it," King began.

Award shows are no stranger to politics and this year's Oscars was no different. When "Two Distant Strangers" filmmaker Travon Free took to the stage to accept his award for best live action short film, he addressed the recent spate of police killings that have dominated headlines for several weeks now.

Tonight, at the 93rd Academy Awards, Two Distant Strangers directors Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe won the Oscar for Best Live-Action Short.

EXCLUSIVE: Director Rob Hardy is cranking up the power with a new first-look deal with Lionsgate and Power creator Courtney Kemp’s End of Episode Productions.