Evolution Photos Boards Sci-Fi Horror ‘The Grove’
EXCLUSIVE: Evolution Photos has taken worldwide gross sales on horror sci-fi film The Grove. The film follows a Black Ops soldier who takes half in a mysterious experiment solely to search out his life descends into insanity when he stops taking his meds and a subsequent lakeside getaway turns into a combat for survival. Acoryé White stars and co-wrote and co-directed alongside Patrycja Kępa. The duo, who beforehand made horror drama Trinket Field, produce beneath their Anchored Lens banner. The solid additionally consists of Carl Anthony Payne, Psalms, Haley Sims, and Guxci. Evolution Photos will launch gross sales on the market in Cannes. Its slate additionally consists of Frank Grillo and Olga Kurylenko thriller Misdirection and Oak, a supernatural horror starring Joey Lauren Adams and Armand Assante. Evolution’s managing director, Kate Hoffman, mentioned, “We’re thrilled to companion with Acoryé and Patrycja at Anchored Lens on the primary of what we hope will probably be many initiatives. They’re progressive filmmakers, and we sit up for working with them for years to return.”
Mischa Hofmann Exiting ‘Spy Metropolis’ Maker Odeon Fiction After Two A long time
Mischa Hofmann, MD of Leonine-backed Spy Metropolis producer Odeon Fiction, is stepping down after twenty years. Hofmann will probably be changed by Britta Meyermann, who has been Head of Worldwide Co-Manufacturing for the German scripted outfit since 2013. Hofmann has been MD for 19 years, throughout which period Odeon has made Dominic Cooper-starrer Spy Metropolis, The Evening in Query and The Seed starring Heino Ferch and Ingrid Bolsø Berdal. Meyermann is at the moment engaged on the likes of Studying to Fly from Patrick Nebout together with a “main worldwide co-production collection with [German network] Degeto.” Leonine boss Fred Kogel mentioned: “We want to thank Mischa Hofmann for a lot of nice and profitable productions which have made TV historical past. We respect his want to begin a brand new chapter in his life and stay professionally and amicably related to him. On the similar time, we’re delighted to have Britta Meyermann with us, a particularly inventive, skilled and internationally established producer who will lead our robust Odeon Fiction model into the longer term and form its content material technique any further.”
MultiVisionnaire Launches 20 Kilos to Happiness
MultiVisionnaire Photos is launching worldwide gross sales on romantic-comedy 20 Kilos to Happiness, directed by and starring Yelyna De León (Will and Grace) with Carlo Mendez (Parks and Recreation) and Riley Shanahan (Doom Patrol) additionally starring. MultiVisionnaire will display the movie on the Cannes market. Written by Sundance-winning author Josefina López (Actual Girls Have Curves), the movie is a few full-figured Latina in a Actual Girls Have Curves Help Group who should resolve between staying loyal to her girlfriends and danger shedding the person of her desires. Josefina López and Yelyna De León function producers.
Germany’s UFA Present Boss Stepping Down After 25 Years
Ute Biernat is stepping down from the helm of Germany’s UFA Present & Factual after 25 years. Throughout her prolonged tenure, she has overseen the likes of the German X Issue, Too Scorching To Deal with Germany, and Deutschland Sucht Den Celebrity. She joined the Cologne-based outfit in 1996 and have become CEO in 2000. Final 12 months she turned CEO of Hungarian manufacturing UFA Produkció. She is going to preserve shut ties with UFA in a consulting capability. “Since becoming a member of Pearson Tv, because it was recognized then, I’ve been capable of have fun numerous unbelievable successes yearly with your entire staff, not solely in all conceivable genres of leisure, but in addition throughout the total spectrum of factual content material,” mentioned Biernat. “The important thing issue that unites all of the profitable initiatives that I’ve overseen in my 25 years as CEO is having an awesome staff behind the scenes.” UFA boss Sascha Schwingel praised the “function mannequin’s” “tireless power and keenness for leisure.”
CJ’s ENM’s Miky Lee Given Ellis Island Medal of Honor
CJ Vice Chair Miky Lee will probably be awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. Lee, who has been an instrumental determine in Okay content material’s world standing, will probably be given the gong on Could 10. Lee has made many Korean exhibits and was an EP on each Parasite and Previous Lives, creating hyperlinks between Korea and the U.S. “We’re thrilled to incorporate Miky Lee as considered one of this 12 months’s prestigious honorees,” mentioned the Ellis Island Honors Society, which hosts the occasion. “Over the previous three many years, Miky Lee, Vice Chairwoman of CJ Group, has been instrumental in elevating Korean tradition to the world stage.” The Ellis Island Medals have been given out since 1986. Lee’s fellow 2025 honorees embrace Adrien Brody, Albert Bourla, Frank McCourt Jr., Dr. Frank Luntz, and Nobel Prize winners Dr. James Patrick Allison and former Secretary of Vitality Dr. Steven Chu.
