David Boxerbaum of Verve joins us for this week’s Anatomy of a Sale. He explores what it’s like taking a small, intimate story and generating massive buzz around town, deciding which buyer to go with in the heat of a bidding war, and how one Friday afternoon changed two writer’s lives forever.
Samuel Franco
The untold true stories of Jackie Kennedy, her sister, Lee Radziwill, and their mutual affairs with the Kennedy brothers and with Aristotle Onassis — the seductive billionaire Greek shipping magnate who would eventually commission the assassination of Bobby Kennedy.
The highly publicized spec Keeper of the Diary from Evan Kilgore and Samuel Franco has sold to Fox Searchlight for a six figure amount. Matti Leshem and Lynn Harris will produce under their Weimaraner Republic Pictures shingle.
The remarkable true story of two strangers from two very different worlds who fight to get Anne Frank’s diary published. Otto Frank, Anne’s father, and Barbara Zimmerman, a young editor at Doubleday Press and a fiercely independent woman determined to make her mark on the world and change it for the better.
The remarkable true story of two strangers from two very different worlds who fight to get Anne Frank’s diary published. Otto Frank, Anne’s father, and Barbara Zimmerman, a young editor at Doubleday Press and a fiercely independent woman determined to make her mark on the world and change it for the better.
We’re thrilled to announce that on Monday, October 3 we will be releasing the 2016 Young & Hungry List, comprised of the 100 best up-and-coming writers in the business, as voted on by industry professionals. Now just days away from the release of this year’s Young & Hungry List, we wanted to recognize one more group of writers: those who made the list just one year ago.
Logline: An untested combat pilot leads a crew of 80 men in 16 bombers on a daring mission to strike at Japan in retaliation for Pearl Harbor. After successfully hitting their targets, the planes crash in occupied China and the surviving pilots must evade enemy troops in the hope of escaping with their lives.
Jeremy Renner has signed on to star as Rocky Marciano in the first authorized film about the boxer. Undefeated: The Rocky Marciano Story hails from Morris S. Levy with a script from Samuel Franco and Evan Kilgore.
Based on actual events, MAYDAY 109 is a riveting survival action/thriller that tells the story of how a young John F. Kennedy struggled to save the crew of his PT Boat after it was sunk by a Japanese warship during World War II.
Based on actual events; tells the story of how a young John F. Kennedy struggled to save the crew of his PT Boat after it was sunk by a Japanese warship during World War II.
