ER producer-director John Wells is set to direct the drama feature The Company Men through his John Wells Prods. shingle.
Wells also wrote the script and is serving as producer of the film, which centers on the personal impact that downsizing has on different executives in a company. In particular, the film focuses on one middle-age man and the effects that losing his job has on his family and life.
Wells will produce with Claire Rudnick Polstein and Paula Weinstein and Berk/Lane Entertainment, formerly known as Union Square. The company, which was founded by Jason Berk and Matt Lane and formally changed its name Monday, also is producing the upcoming romantic comedy All the Ships at Sea with Victor Levin (Then She Found Me), who will direct from his script.
Company has no official production start date because of the writers strike.
Wells recently served as executive producer on the Weinstein's Co.'s I'm Not There. His credits include Far From Heaven and TV's The West Wing.
He is repped by CAA.
Wells also wrote the script and is serving as producer of the film, which centers on the personal impact that downsizing has on different executives in a company. In particular, the film focuses on one middle-age man and the effects that losing his job has on his family and life.
Wells will produce with Claire Rudnick Polstein and Paula Weinstein and Berk/Lane Entertainment, formerly known as Union Square. The company, which was founded by Jason Berk and Matt Lane and formally changed its name Monday, also is producing the upcoming romantic comedy All the Ships at Sea with Victor Levin (Then She Found Me), who will direct from his script.
Company has no official production start date because of the writers strike.
Wells recently served as executive producer on the Weinstein's Co.'s I'm Not There. His credits include Far From Heaven and TV's The West Wing.
He is repped by CAA.
- 1/15/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jason Berk and Matt Lane, partners in the fledgling Union Square Entertainment, are developing a film financing fund to take advantage of federal tax incentives created under the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004. The recent legislation, which is intended, in part, to stem runaway production, allows for expedited tax deductions for films with budgets between $1 million and $15 million produced in the U.S. that meet certain spending criterion. Union Square, the privately held production and finance company that Berk and Lane formed last year and which is based in Beverly Hills, is developing both international co-productions and U.S.-based films, which will be designed to take advantage of the tax credits. "We are now expanding our efforts to bring more filming to the U.S.," Berk said.
- 6/30/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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