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Exclusive: Scott Free Productions has promoted Vera Meyer, Sam Roston and Rebecca Feuer and hired Avital Siegel to the company’s film division. The changes come at a busy time for the company as its founder, Ridley Scott, wraps production on his Napoleon film for Apple and the team preps an impressive slate of upcoming projects.
Roston has been upped to Senior VP of Film, Feuer has been promoted to VP of Film and TV, Meyer has been upped to Creative Exec of Film, and Siegel joins as Director of Development for Film.
Roston started at Scott Free in late 2015, where he served as a Director of Development and as a Vice President. He recently oversaw the development and production on Boston Strangler starring Keira Knightley, which is now in post-production for 20th Century Studios. Prior to that, Roston was a co-producer on Chase Palmer’s feature directorial debut Naked Singularity...
Roston has been upped to Senior VP of Film, Feuer has been promoted to VP of Film and TV, Meyer has been upped to Creative Exec of Film, and Siegel joins as Director of Development for Film.
Roston started at Scott Free in late 2015, where he served as a Director of Development and as a Vice President. He recently oversaw the development and production on Boston Strangler starring Keira Knightley, which is now in post-production for 20th Century Studios. Prior to that, Roston was a co-producer on Chase Palmer’s feature directorial debut Naked Singularity...
- 7/27/2022
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
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Versus Entertainment has brought on board Decentraland and Lumiere to develop metaverse and Nft angles for its ongoing film project “The Infinite Machine.”
“The Infinite Machine” is a film adapted from Camilla Russo’s book of the same title which is now being produced by Versus with Ridley Scott’s production company Scott Free. It tells the story Vitalik Buterin, the controversial co-founder of Ethereum, the world’s second largest digital asset.
Decentraland operates a virtual world that uses open-source technology, allowing it to be expanded by member users. The platform is also owned and operated by the same users, using blockchain, rather than by a parent company.
The agreement between Versus and Decentraland will see the film and its Nft collection developed and integrated into the Decentraland metaverse. Lumiere, a Hong Kong- and Singapore-based entertainment specialist, is supporting the project by developing and integrating the experience of the film...
“The Infinite Machine” is a film adapted from Camilla Russo’s book of the same title which is now being produced by Versus with Ridley Scott’s production company Scott Free. It tells the story Vitalik Buterin, the controversial co-founder of Ethereum, the world’s second largest digital asset.
Decentraland operates a virtual world that uses open-source technology, allowing it to be expanded by member users. The platform is also owned and operated by the same users, using blockchain, rather than by a parent company.
The agreement between Versus and Decentraland will see the film and its Nft collection developed and integrated into the Decentraland metaverse. Lumiere, a Hong Kong- and Singapore-based entertainment specialist, is supporting the project by developing and integrating the experience of the film...
- 5/29/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
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Exclusive: Scott Free Productions has come aboard to produce an film adaptation of the bestselling book The Infinite Machine, from cryptocurrency journalist Camila Russo.
Written with the verve of such works as The Big Short, The History of the Future and The Spider Network, here is the fascinating, Russo’s book charts the rise of Ethereum, the second-biggest digital asset in the world, the growth of cryptocurrency, and the future of the internet as we know it.
The story of Ethereum begins with Vitalik Buterin, a gifted 19-year-old autodidact who saw the promise of blockchain when the technology was in its earliest stages. He convinced a crack group of coders to join him in his quest to make a super-charged, global computer.
The film will be written for the screen and directed by Shyam Madiraju, with Ridley Scott, Tom Moran and Vera Meyer of Scott Free producing alongside Alejandro Miranda of Versus Entertainment.
Written with the verve of such works as The Big Short, The History of the Future and The Spider Network, here is the fascinating, Russo’s book charts the rise of Ethereum, the second-biggest digital asset in the world, the growth of cryptocurrency, and the future of the internet as we know it.
The story of Ethereum begins with Vitalik Buterin, a gifted 19-year-old autodidact who saw the promise of blockchain when the technology was in its earliest stages. He convinced a crack group of coders to join him in his quest to make a super-charged, global computer.
The film will be written for the screen and directed by Shyam Madiraju, with Ridley Scott, Tom Moran and Vera Meyer of Scott Free producing alongside Alejandro Miranda of Versus Entertainment.
- 4/21/2022
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
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Exclusive: Scott Free Productions has optioned the rights to the acclaimed thriller Outside from bestselling Icelandic author Ragnar Jónasson for feature adaptation. Commercial director Henrik Hansen from Scott’s Rsa Films is in talks to direct the project.
The novel will be released April 28 in the UK and stateside in June.
The story follows four friends seeking shelter in a small abandoned hunting lodge during a deadly Icelandic storm. Miles from help, and knowing they will die outside in the cold, they break open the lock and make their way inside, hoping to wait out the storm until morning. But nothing can prepare them for what they find behind the door.
Ridley Scott, Tom Moran, and Vera Meyer of Scott Free Productions will produce alongside Leifur Dagfinnsson and Kristinn Thordarson of Truenorth Productions.
“Working with Ridley Scott, one of the great visionaries of cinema, is an immense honor,” said Jónasson.
The novel will be released April 28 in the UK and stateside in June.
The story follows four friends seeking shelter in a small abandoned hunting lodge during a deadly Icelandic storm. Miles from help, and knowing they will die outside in the cold, they break open the lock and make their way inside, hoping to wait out the storm until morning. But nothing can prepare them for what they find behind the door.
Ridley Scott, Tom Moran, and Vera Meyer of Scott Free Productions will produce alongside Leifur Dagfinnsson and Kristinn Thordarson of Truenorth Productions.
“Working with Ridley Scott, one of the great visionaries of cinema, is an immense honor,” said Jónasson.
- 4/7/2022
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
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Exclusive: AGC International has closed a raft of pre-sales on in-demand thriller Panopticon out of the virtual EFM.
Shailene Woodley (Big Little Lies), Anthony Mackie (Avengers), and Jacob Latimore (The Chi) are set to star in the Ridley Scott-execed feature, which is slated to shoot in New Mexico from July. Andrés Baiz (Narcos) will direct from the Black List script by Emily Jerome.
Significant deals have been closed with Metropolitan Filmexport in France, Square One Entertainment in Germany and Austria, Notorious Pictures in Italy and Spain, Dutch FilmWorks in Benelux, Nordisk Film in Scandinavia, Top Film in C.I.S., Vertical Entertainment in Eastern Europe and Sun Distribution in Latin America.
Pacts have also closed for Joy N Contents Group in South Korea, MovieCloud in Taiwan, Odeon in Greece, Selim Ramia & Co. in the Middle East, Bg Film in Turkey, Sahamongkolfilm in Thailand, Pt Prima in Indonesia, Nos Lusomundo in Portugal,...
Shailene Woodley (Big Little Lies), Anthony Mackie (Avengers), and Jacob Latimore (The Chi) are set to star in the Ridley Scott-execed feature, which is slated to shoot in New Mexico from July. Andrés Baiz (Narcos) will direct from the Black List script by Emily Jerome.
Significant deals have been closed with Metropolitan Filmexport in France, Square One Entertainment in Germany and Austria, Notorious Pictures in Italy and Spain, Dutch FilmWorks in Benelux, Nordisk Film in Scandinavia, Top Film in C.I.S., Vertical Entertainment in Eastern Europe and Sun Distribution in Latin America.
Pacts have also closed for Joy N Contents Group in South Korea, MovieCloud in Taiwan, Odeon in Greece, Selim Ramia & Co. in the Middle East, Bg Film in Turkey, Sahamongkolfilm in Thailand, Pt Prima in Indonesia, Nos Lusomundo in Portugal,...
- 3/11/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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Exclusive: AGC Studios is fully financing Panopticon, an Andres Baiz-directed thriller that will star Shailene Woodley, Anthony Mackie and Jacob Latimore. Scott Free and AGC are producing, and the script will be sent to buyers overnight for virtual Berlin, with AGC International and CAA Media Finance launching worldwide sales. Pic will shoot in New Mexico this summer.
In the Emily Jerome-scripted thriller, Woodley plays Chase, an ambitious young Wall Street trader who seizes upon a hot investment opportunity in Pcc Correctional, a private prison group racking up huge profits. She soon uncovers an operation rife with violence and malfeasance. Forced to choose between profiting from a gold mine career opportunity and doing the right thing, Chase teams up with a local prison guard (Mackie) to take on a culture of corrupt boardrooms, white supremacists, prison gangs and crooked correctional officers, to break apart the system that’s made her a rising star.
In the Emily Jerome-scripted thriller, Woodley plays Chase, an ambitious young Wall Street trader who seizes upon a hot investment opportunity in Pcc Correctional, a private prison group racking up huge profits. She soon uncovers an operation rife with violence and malfeasance. Forced to choose between profiting from a gold mine career opportunity and doing the right thing, Chase teams up with a local prison guard (Mackie) to take on a culture of corrupt boardrooms, white supremacists, prison gangs and crooked correctional officers, to break apart the system that’s made her a rising star.
- 2/25/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
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Narcos director Andrés Baiz will helm Scott Free and Agc thriller Panopticon, based on the Black List script by Emily Jerome.
Tom Moran and Vera Meyer will shepherd the project with Kevin Walsh producing for Scott Free alongside Jerome and Agc Studios CEO Stuart Ford and Head of Production Linda McDonough. Ridley Scott will serve as executive producer.
Production is slated to begin in fall 2020, and active casting is ongoing.
The film, according to the official synopsis, will follow “rising hedge fund manager Chase who hears about a little known financial gold mine called Pcc Correctional, an Arizona based private prison system that racks up huge profits. She decides to go all in to advance her career but it soon becomes clear that it’s a bad bet in every way except return on investment. On a tour of the prison she realizes that the inmates are running the show.
Tom Moran and Vera Meyer will shepherd the project with Kevin Walsh producing for Scott Free alongside Jerome and Agc Studios CEO Stuart Ford and Head of Production Linda McDonough. Ridley Scott will serve as executive producer.
Production is slated to begin in fall 2020, and active casting is ongoing.
The film, according to the official synopsis, will follow “rising hedge fund manager Chase who hears about a little known financial gold mine called Pcc Correctional, an Arizona based private prison system that racks up huge profits. She decides to go all in to advance her career but it soon becomes clear that it’s a bad bet in every way except return on investment. On a tour of the prison she realizes that the inmates are running the show.
- 5/28/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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Ridley Scott will executive produce a thriller called “Panopticon” that is based on a script that landed on the Black List in 2017, and Agc Studios will finance and co-produce the film, the studio’s chairman and CEO Stuart Ford announced Thursday.
Andrés Baiz (“Narcos”) will direct “Panopticon” from the Black List script by Emily Jerome, and production is slated to begin this fall, with casting already underway.
The word “panopticon” refers to a prison designed in a round such that all the prisoners can be watched at once by a single guard, and because they can’t see when they’re being watched, they’re motivated to use good behavior.
Also Read: Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions Signs First-Look Deal at Apple
The film “Panopticon” though follows rising hedge fund manager Chase, who hears about a little known financial gold mine called Pcc Correctional, an Arizona based private prison system that racks up huge profits.
Andrés Baiz (“Narcos”) will direct “Panopticon” from the Black List script by Emily Jerome, and production is slated to begin this fall, with casting already underway.
The word “panopticon” refers to a prison designed in a round such that all the prisoners can be watched at once by a single guard, and because they can’t see when they’re being watched, they’re motivated to use good behavior.
Also Read: Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions Signs First-Look Deal at Apple
The film “Panopticon” though follows rising hedge fund manager Chase, who hears about a little known financial gold mine called Pcc Correctional, an Arizona based private prison system that racks up huge profits.
- 5/28/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
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Signaling its second project bound for Cannes’ late June virtual market, Agc Studios will fully finance and co-produce criminal justice thriller “Panopticon,” Agc chairman-ceo Stuart Ford announced Thursday.
Sales arm Agc International is handling international sales; CAA Media Finance, which arranged for the film’s financing, will represent a domestic sale. The two companies will co-represent Chinese distribution rights
Set up at Scott Free Productions, and based on a screenplay from Emily Jerome which made the 2017 Black List, “Panopticon” will be directed by Andrés Baiz, a founding father of Colombia’s modern-day cinema who made one of its highlights (“The Hidden Face”) and has gained large international profile directing 12 episodes of “Narcos” and now four of “Narcos: Mexico.”
Active casting is ongoing with production scheduled to begin in Fall 2020 on a feature which aims to take a hard look at the U.S. criminal justice system – befitting its title of...
Sales arm Agc International is handling international sales; CAA Media Finance, which arranged for the film’s financing, will represent a domestic sale. The two companies will co-represent Chinese distribution rights
Set up at Scott Free Productions, and based on a screenplay from Emily Jerome which made the 2017 Black List, “Panopticon” will be directed by Andrés Baiz, a founding father of Colombia’s modern-day cinema who made one of its highlights (“The Hidden Face”) and has gained large international profile directing 12 episodes of “Narcos” and now four of “Narcos: Mexico.”
Active casting is ongoing with production scheduled to begin in Fall 2020 on a feature which aims to take a hard look at the U.S. criminal justice system – befitting its title of...
- 5/28/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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Production earmarked for autumn start; project out to casting.
Agc Studios is fully financing and will co-produce with Scott Free the thriller Panopticon and has announced the project to international buyers.
Andrés Baiz, whose credits include Narcos, Narcos Mexico and The Hidden Face, will direct from a screenplay from The Black List by Emily Jerome. Ridley Scott will serve as executive producer.
Panopticon centres on a hedge fund manager who finds herself in deeper than she expected after she invests in a profitable private prison in Arizona, only to discover the inmates are running the show.
Production has been earmarked...
Agc Studios is fully financing and will co-produce with Scott Free the thriller Panopticon and has announced the project to international buyers.
Andrés Baiz, whose credits include Narcos, Narcos Mexico and The Hidden Face, will direct from a screenplay from The Black List by Emily Jerome. Ridley Scott will serve as executive producer.
Panopticon centres on a hedge fund manager who finds herself in deeper than she expected after she invests in a profitable private prison in Arizona, only to discover the inmates are running the show.
Production has been earmarked...
- 5/28/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
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