Manager Alex Cole, formerly of the Firm and Nine Yards Entertainment, has launched Elevate Entertainment, a full-service management company that includes talent, literary and reality departments as well as a development and production arm.
In representation, the company is 80-20 split between acting and writing/directing clients. Its talent roster, shepherded by founder-president Cole, includes Vinnie Jones, "Tron" co-star Serinda Swan, Jimmy Jean Louis ("Heroes"), Hannah Taylor Gordon, Karim Seleh, Myanna Buring and Justin Louis.
Partner Jenny Wood, who worked at Icm and Blumhouse Prods., handles the lit clients. Producer Peter Cohen (CBS' "I Get That a Lot") is head of reality, and Seth Howard, formerly vp production and development at Tribune Entertainment, is overseeing the development/ production arm.
With financial backing from U.K. firms, Elevate has a development slate of 10 TV series and longform projects. It has inked an overall deal with comic book veteran Howard Chaykin ("American Flagg!
In representation, the company is 80-20 split between acting and writing/directing clients. Its talent roster, shepherded by founder-president Cole, includes Vinnie Jones, "Tron" co-star Serinda Swan, Jimmy Jean Louis ("Heroes"), Hannah Taylor Gordon, Karim Seleh, Myanna Buring and Justin Louis.
Partner Jenny Wood, who worked at Icm and Blumhouse Prods., handles the lit clients. Producer Peter Cohen (CBS' "I Get That a Lot") is head of reality, and Seth Howard, formerly vp production and development at Tribune Entertainment, is overseeing the development/ production arm.
With financial backing from U.K. firms, Elevate has a development slate of 10 TV series and longform projects. It has inked an overall deal with comic book veteran Howard Chaykin ("American Flagg!
- 4/28/2009
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ben Kingsley Watches Otto Frank Footage
Ben Kingsley is learning everything he can about Anne Frank's father Otto Frank so he can play him in a new TV mini series. It is not the Oscar winner Kingsley's first brush with the Second World War. He starred in Steven Spielberg's holocaust movie Schindler's List. Otto Frank was the only member of his family to survive the Nazi concentration camps - Anne died in March 1945 in Auschwitz. The TV series - entitled Anne Frank - tells the story of the Frank family both during and after the time they leave the secret annex in Amsterdam and Kingsley spent a lot of time watching footage of the real Otto Frank who lived to 91, an experience he described as "like gold for me." Despite finding the filming rather harrowing in places, Kingsley has emerged with a huge respect for 14-year-old actress Hannah Taylor-Gordon who stars as Anne. He says, "She is an extraordinary actress. She was very brave."...
- 3/8/2001
- WENN
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