Exclusive: Ann Nguyen has been promoted to Chief Executive Officer at the online film packaging, financing and distribution marketplace Slated, with Greg Gertmenian being elevated to Head of Business Development. Nguyen and Gertmenian join longtime Head of Film Finance, Jay Burnley, to lead Slated’s strategy and operations going forward, setting the stage for new leadership at the company.
“I can’t think of three people more qualified to lead Slated into the future,” said Executive Chairman and Co-Founder Stephan Paternot. “Ann, Greg and Jay came into Slated at the ground level and built the core pillars of our business today – the technical infrastructure, analytics, and film finance operations. I’m incredibly proud of the work they’re doing to deliver value to our filmmaker community and am thrilled to see what they do next.”
Yair Landau, one of Slated’s advisors and the former Vice Chair of Sony Pictures...
“I can’t think of three people more qualified to lead Slated into the future,” said Executive Chairman and Co-Founder Stephan Paternot. “Ann, Greg and Jay came into Slated at the ground level and built the core pillars of our business today – the technical infrastructure, analytics, and film finance operations. I’m incredibly proud of the work they’re doing to deliver value to our filmmaker community and am thrilled to see what they do next.”
Yair Landau, one of Slated’s advisors and the former Vice Chair of Sony Pictures...
- 12/9/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The latest casting round of tributes and mentors in Lionsgate’s prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes includes Irene Boehm, Cooper Dillon, Luna Kuse, Kjell Brutscheidt, Dimitri Abold, Athena Strates, Dakota Shapiro, George Somner and Vaughan Reilly.
As we told you previously, the film is set during the early days of tyrannical President of Panem, 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) who is the last hope for his fading lineage, a once-proud family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. With the 10th annual Hunger Games fast approaching, the young Snow is alarmed when he is assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), the girl tribute from impoverished District 12. But, after Lucy Gray commands all of Panem’s attention by defiantly singing during the reaping ceremony, Snow thinks he might be able to turn the odds in their favor. Uniting their instincts for showmanship and newfound political savvy,...
As we told you previously, the film is set during the early days of tyrannical President of Panem, 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) who is the last hope for his fading lineage, a once-proud family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. With the 10th annual Hunger Games fast approaching, the young Snow is alarmed when he is assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), the girl tribute from impoverished District 12. But, after Lucy Gray commands all of Panem’s attention by defiantly singing during the reaping ceremony, Snow thinks he might be able to turn the odds in their favor. Uniting their instincts for showmanship and newfound political savvy,...
- 7/6/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Company’s international division to present first-look footage to buyers.
Heading into the virtual EFM Los Angeles-based Blue Fox Entertainment has acquired international rights to Sonja O’Hara’s supernatural thriller Mid-Century starring Avatar’s Stephen Lang, Shane West and Bruce Dern.
West and Chelsea Gilligan play a vacationing couple in a haunted mid-century modern home. Lang is the occult-obsessed architect who haunts his masterpieces long after a grisly death, while Dern is cast as Lang’s mentor in the supernatural realm. Sarah Hay plays a housewife forever trapped in her home after her untimely demise.
Mike Stern wrote the screenplay and produced Mid-Century,...
Heading into the virtual EFM Los Angeles-based Blue Fox Entertainment has acquired international rights to Sonja O’Hara’s supernatural thriller Mid-Century starring Avatar’s Stephen Lang, Shane West and Bruce Dern.
West and Chelsea Gilligan play a vacationing couple in a haunted mid-century modern home. Lang is the occult-obsessed architect who haunts his masterpieces long after a grisly death, while Dern is cast as Lang’s mentor in the supernatural realm. Sarah Hay plays a housewife forever trapped in her home after her untimely demise.
Mike Stern wrote the screenplay and produced Mid-Century,...
- 2/1/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Company’s international division to present first-look footage to buyers.
Heading into the virtual EFM Los Angeles-based Blue Fox Entertainment has acquired international rights to Sonja O’Hara’s supernatural thriller Mid-Century starring Avatar’s Steven Lang and Bruce Dern.
Shane West and Chelsea Gilligan play a vacationing couple in a haunted mid-century modern home. Lang is the occult-obsessed architect who haunts his masterpieces long after a grisly death, while Dern is cast as Lang’s mentor in the supernatural realm. Sarah Hay plays a housewife forever trapped in her home after her untimely demise.
Mike Stern wrote the screenplay and produced Mid-Century,...
Heading into the virtual EFM Los Angeles-based Blue Fox Entertainment has acquired international rights to Sonja O’Hara’s supernatural thriller Mid-Century starring Avatar’s Steven Lang and Bruce Dern.
Shane West and Chelsea Gilligan play a vacationing couple in a haunted mid-century modern home. Lang is the occult-obsessed architect who haunts his masterpieces long after a grisly death, while Dern is cast as Lang’s mentor in the supernatural realm. Sarah Hay plays a housewife forever trapped in her home after her untimely demise.
Mike Stern wrote the screenplay and produced Mid-Century,...
- 2/1/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Former RedBox executive and AMC consultant Tim Wesley to head the online financing platform.
Slated, the online film financing, sales, packaging and development platform, has named Tim Wesley, most recently general manager of RedBox On Demand and a consultant for AMC Theatres, as its new CEO and added three industry names to its board of directors.
Slated co-founder Stephan Paternot, who has been CEO for the past six years, will stay with the company to serve as executive chairman.
Joining Slated’s board – to which Wesley will report - are former Sony executive Yair Landau, former Fox and Paramount executive...
Slated, the online film financing, sales, packaging and development platform, has named Tim Wesley, most recently general manager of RedBox On Demand and a consultant for AMC Theatres, as its new CEO and added three industry names to its board of directors.
Slated co-founder Stephan Paternot, who has been CEO for the past six years, will stay with the company to serve as executive chairman.
Joining Slated’s board – to which Wesley will report - are former Sony executive Yair Landau, former Fox and Paramount executive...
- 7/14/2020
- by 31¦John Hazelton¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Slated, the online film financing, sales, packaging and development marketplace, has hired Tim Wesley as CEO.
Wesley recently served as an executive digital consultant for AMC Theatres and is the former general manager of RedBox On Demand.
He will report to Slated’s newly installed board of directors. Stephan Paternot, co-Founder, who led the company as CEO for the previous six years, will continue with the company as executive chairman.
Simultaneously joining the company’s board of directors are a trio of respected entertainment industry executives: Yair Landau, the former vice chairman of Sony Pictures and president of Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment; David Wertheimer, former president of digital at Fox Networks Group and president of Paramount Digital Entertainment; and Michael Joe, former COO of STXfilms and EVP of Universal Pictures.
Under Wesley’s direction, Slated will expand the company’s institutional capital resources to finance studio films, and enable the...
Wesley recently served as an executive digital consultant for AMC Theatres and is the former general manager of RedBox On Demand.
He will report to Slated’s newly installed board of directors. Stephan Paternot, co-Founder, who led the company as CEO for the previous six years, will continue with the company as executive chairman.
Simultaneously joining the company’s board of directors are a trio of respected entertainment industry executives: Yair Landau, the former vice chairman of Sony Pictures and president of Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment; David Wertheimer, former president of digital at Fox Networks Group and president of Paramount Digital Entertainment; and Michael Joe, former COO of STXfilms and EVP of Universal Pictures.
Under Wesley’s direction, Slated will expand the company’s institutional capital resources to finance studio films, and enable the...
- 7/14/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
The online film marketplace company Slated has named a former AMC Theatres executive Tim Wesley as its CEO, the company announced Tuesday. Wesley, who was an executive digital consultant for AMC and a former general manager of RedBox On Demand, will report to Slated’s newly installed board of directors. Stephan Paternot, co-founder, who led the company as CEO for the previous 6 years, will continue with the company as executive chairman. Also joining the company’s board of directors are Yair Landau (former vice chairman of Sony Pictures and president of Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment), David Wertheimer (former president of Digital at Fox Networks Group and president of Paramount Digital Entertainment) and Michael Joe (former COO of STXfilms and EVP of Universal Pictures). Also Read: American Film Market Moves Online for 2020 Edition, Shifts Back One Week to Avoid Election Slated launched in 2012 and is an online marketplace for film financing,...
- 7/14/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Dakota Shapiro and Oliver Cooper in ‘Valley of the Boom.’
After making his Us TV debut in the National Geographic docudrama Valley of the Boom Dakota Shapiro was thrilled when he landed a role in the pilot of The Lost Boys, adapted from Joel Schumacher’s 1987 horror comedy movie.
The Australian-born, La-based actor had a terrific time shooting the pilot for The CW network, produced by Rob Thomas and directed by Catherine Hardwicke.
He played David, the sexy, dangerous and immortal vampire portrayed in the original film by Kiefer Sutherland.
The CW chiefs weren’t happy with the pilot scripted by Heather Mitchell and ordered a total reshoot, which retained just two members of the original cast: Shapiro and Medalion Rahimi, who played the carefree Californian Stella, David’s love interest.
However that hasn’t happened and the network’s hold on Dakota has expired so he is now busily auditioning.
After making his Us TV debut in the National Geographic docudrama Valley of the Boom Dakota Shapiro was thrilled when he landed a role in the pilot of The Lost Boys, adapted from Joel Schumacher’s 1987 horror comedy movie.
The Australian-born, La-based actor had a terrific time shooting the pilot for The CW network, produced by Rob Thomas and directed by Catherine Hardwicke.
He played David, the sexy, dangerous and immortal vampire portrayed in the original film by Kiefer Sutherland.
The CW chiefs weren’t happy with the pilot scripted by Heather Mitchell and ordered a total reshoot, which retained just two members of the original cast: Shapiro and Medalion Rahimi, who played the carefree Californian Stella, David’s love interest.
However that hasn’t happened and the network’s hold on Dakota has expired so he is now busily auditioning.
- 1/27/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Exclusive: The CW’s The Lost Boys pilot has cast most of its leads. Former Teen Wolf star Tyler Posey and Kingdom alum Kiele Sanchez have been tapped for two of the three central characters, with Medalion Rahimi (Still Star-Crossed) and Dakota Shapiro (Valley of the Boom) also landing lead roles in the series adaptation of the iconic 1987 Warner Bros horror comedy movie.
Catherine Hardwicke is set to direct the pilot, from Warner Bros TV, Spondoolie Prods and Gulfstream TV, in a return to the vampire genre after helming the first movie in the Twilight saga.
Written by Heather Mitchell, The Lost Boys is set in sunny seaside Santa Carla, home to a beautiful boardwalk, all the cotton candy you can eat…and a secret underworld of vampires. After the sudden death of their father, brothers Michael (Posey) and Sam Emerson move to Santa Carla with their mother, Lucy (Sanchez...
Catherine Hardwicke is set to direct the pilot, from Warner Bros TV, Spondoolie Prods and Gulfstream TV, in a return to the vampire genre after helming the first movie in the Twilight saga.
Written by Heather Mitchell, The Lost Boys is set in sunny seaside Santa Carla, home to a beautiful boardwalk, all the cotton candy you can eat…and a secret underworld of vampires. After the sudden death of their father, brothers Michael (Posey) and Sam Emerson move to Santa Carla with their mother, Lucy (Sanchez...
- 2/21/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Chris Longo Feb 14, 2019
TheGlobe.com was one of the first social networks. It's co-creator looks forward and back in an exclusive book excerpt.
National Geographic's recent limited series Valley of The Boom channeled real stories of boom and bust from the '90s tech bubble by using a mix of documentary interviews and scripted scenes. One of the key players who appears in the series (he’s both interviewed and an actor portrays him) is Stephan Paternot, who was the co-founder of theglobe.com, which is considered to be one of the first “social networks” well before the likes of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram dominated the space.
With the internet landscape so vastly different today, Valley of the Boom became this amusing snapshot of a nascent internet filled with promise both realized and unfulfilled. Paternot and his theglobe.com co-founder Todd Krizelman were 20-year-old kids building a global social...
TheGlobe.com was one of the first social networks. It's co-creator looks forward and back in an exclusive book excerpt.
National Geographic's recent limited series Valley of The Boom channeled real stories of boom and bust from the '90s tech bubble by using a mix of documentary interviews and scripted scenes. One of the key players who appears in the series (he’s both interviewed and an actor portrays him) is Stephan Paternot, who was the co-founder of theglobe.com, which is considered to be one of the first “social networks” well before the likes of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram dominated the space.
With the internet landscape so vastly different today, Valley of the Boom became this amusing snapshot of a nascent internet filled with promise both realized and unfulfilled. Paternot and his theglobe.com co-founder Todd Krizelman were 20-year-old kids building a global social...
- 1/26/2019
- Den of Geek
Midway through Nat Geo’s latest scripted-documentary hybrid “Valley of the Boom,” three lead characters are assassinated. Bradley Whitford being garroted in the middle of his own series may seem like a major spoiler, but it’s not even a surprise. For one, you’ve been watching the real-life man he’s playing — James Barksdale, 75, and very much alive — recount the same experiences direct to camera for the last three hours. For another, the assassinations are so choreographed, so slowly executed, so obviously over-the-top, that by the time Lamorne Morris’ imaginary “amalgam” of banker types shows up to explain that all these murders are just a metaphor for what happened to their business, the gesture is redundant — and as painful as a bullet to the brain.
“Valley of the Boom” isn’t always hard to watch. For anyone who makes it through the over-caffeinated first hour, there’s insight and...
“Valley of the Boom” isn’t always hard to watch. For anyone who makes it through the over-caffeinated first hour, there’s insight and...
- 1/9/2019
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Chris Longo Dec 20, 2018
Lamorne Morris comes bearing gifts this holiday season: The first episodes of Nat Geo's new series Valley of the Boom.
The story of the internet is still being written, one line of code at time. A handful of major players–Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook–dominate the headlines as they fight to seize the narrative about where the future of technology is going. But what was the internet like during its formative years? How did it lead us here? And who were the major players that took us on this wild ride?
National Geographic’s new series Valley of the Boom tells the story of the early days of the internet by chronicling pivotal stories from the dot-com bubble era. It’s set to premiere on January 13th, but with the show focusing on the tech industry’s original disruptors, the network decided to go new school...
Lamorne Morris comes bearing gifts this holiday season: The first episodes of Nat Geo's new series Valley of the Boom.
The story of the internet is still being written, one line of code at time. A handful of major players–Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook–dominate the headlines as they fight to seize the narrative about where the future of technology is going. But what was the internet like during its formative years? How did it lead us here? And who were the major players that took us on this wild ride?
National Geographic’s new series Valley of the Boom tells the story of the early days of the internet by chronicling pivotal stories from the dot-com bubble era. It’s set to premiere on January 13th, but with the show focusing on the tech industry’s original disruptors, the network decided to go new school...
- 12/20/2018
- Den of Geek
The story of how the rise of the Internet changed the world is an important one, but it can also be a little dry. That’s why creator Matthew Carnahan, when tackling the subject for the upcoming Nat Geo series “Valley of the Boom,” decided to have some fun with it.
“I’m interested in the subject matter, but not that interested,” he explained during a panel at the Tribeca TV festival. In the two episodes of the series screened, the story of three rising companies during the 1990s tech boom is told with documentary interviews, scripted reenactments, fourth wall breaks, interpretative dance, and a rap battle. “I just like to play with that stuff, always, and the prankster-ism of the piece is all in service of bringing the audience in on the fun, rather than it being this dry observational experience.”
Joined by cast members Bradley Whitford, Steve Zahn,...
“I’m interested in the subject matter, but not that interested,” he explained during a panel at the Tribeca TV festival. In the two episodes of the series screened, the story of three rising companies during the 1990s tech boom is told with documentary interviews, scripted reenactments, fourth wall breaks, interpretative dance, and a rap battle. “I just like to play with that stuff, always, and the prankster-ism of the piece is all in service of bringing the audience in on the fun, rather than it being this dry observational experience.”
Joined by cast members Bradley Whitford, Steve Zahn,...
- 9/22/2018
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
The online film marketplace has released an infographic that reveals a disconnect between age-groups favoured by Hollywood’s greenlight process and those that perform best based on a film’s return on investment.
Los Angeles-based Slated’s analysis considered 1,591 features released theatrically on at least one screen in North America between 2010-2015.
The study found that a traditional focus on fortysomething talent has neglected mostly younger and some older writers, directors and producers and actors who in fact represent greater value for investors.
Slated’s latest infographic also reveals a disconnect between the age of creative talents and the audiences their films would purport to entertain.
Data culled from reports by the Motion Picture Association Of America shows that directors, writers, producers, lead actors and supporting actors aged 40 and above accounted for two-thirds of production budgets in films released in the time period under observation.
Yet two-thirds of frequent cinema-goers in that time were aged under 40. Millennials...
Los Angeles-based Slated’s analysis considered 1,591 features released theatrically on at least one screen in North America between 2010-2015.
The study found that a traditional focus on fortysomething talent has neglected mostly younger and some older writers, directors and producers and actors who in fact represent greater value for investors.
Slated’s latest infographic also reveals a disconnect between the age of creative talents and the audiences their films would purport to entertain.
Data culled from reports by the Motion Picture Association Of America shows that directors, writers, producers, lead actors and supporting actors aged 40 and above accounted for two-thirds of production budgets in films released in the time period under observation.
Yet two-thirds of frequent cinema-goers in that time were aged under 40. Millennials...
- 11/17/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
There it all was, the raw shaky cam quality of images that showed nothing of the Sunset Boulevard one usually sees in movies, the much talked about acting chops of two first-time actresses that, lo and behold, are transgender women actually playing transgender women. As I sat in awe watching Tangerine, the first movie shot entirely on an iPhone 5s, what I couldn’t shake wasn’t the hype amassed along its festival and awards gala circuits. Thankfully, I realized right away the buzz was well-earned and trained my eye on the cinematic grain instead – it was purposefully tacked on as a tip of the hat to the unwieldy uni-purpose cameras. Yet another filmmaking tool breathing its last.
And why shouldn’t cameras go the way of the dodo, and the celluloid? That’s probably a question better left to the contingent of film buffs that, as their counterparts in the book v.
And why shouldn’t cameras go the way of the dodo, and the celluloid? That’s probably a question better left to the contingent of film buffs that, as their counterparts in the book v.
- 12/15/2015
- by Ioanina
- SoundOnSight
There it all was, the raw shaky cam quality of images that showed nothing of the Sunset Boulevard one usually sees in movies, the much talked about acting chops of two first-time actresses that, lo and behold, are transgender women actually playing transgender women. As I sat in awe watching Tangerine, the first movie shot entirely on an iPhone 5s, what I couldn’t shake wasn’t the hype amassed along its festival and awards gala circuits. Thankfully, I realized right away the buzz was well-earned and trained my eye on the cinematic grain instead – it was purposefully tacked on as a tip of the hat to the unwieldy uni-purpose cameras. Yet another filmmaking tool breathing its last.
And why shouldn’t cameras go the way of the dodo, and the celluloid? That’s probably a question better left to the contingent of film buffs that, as their counterparts in the book v.
And why shouldn’t cameras go the way of the dodo, and the celluloid? That’s probably a question better left to the contingent of film buffs that, as their counterparts in the book v.
- 12/14/2015
- by Staff
- SoundOnSight
Equity crowdfunding has the potential to become an important tool for filmmakers, but still faces regulatory hurdles around the world, said panellists at Busan’s Kofic Industry Forum (Oct 5-7).
During the “Future of Financing through Crowdfunding” panel, the speakers also compared crowdfunding strategies in the Us, UK, China and Korea, and advised filmmakers who use crowdfunding to adopt a hybrid approach.
Stephan Paternot, CEO of Slated, an online platform that brings together investors and projects, explained how equity crowdfunding legislation is slowly making its way through Us Congress. “The Jobs Act [Jumpstart Our Business Startups] will help crowdfunding evolve past donations and rewards, but the rules are still being defined and it hasn’t benefitted many people yet,” Paternot said.
He also explained how crowdfunding in any form still accounts for a tiny fraction of the $14bn spent on making independent movies in the Us each year: “You can raise around 10% through fans and have to raise 90% yourself. Crowdfunding does not...
During the “Future of Financing through Crowdfunding” panel, the speakers also compared crowdfunding strategies in the Us, UK, China and Korea, and advised filmmakers who use crowdfunding to adopt a hybrid approach.
Stephan Paternot, CEO of Slated, an online platform that brings together investors and projects, explained how equity crowdfunding legislation is slowly making its way through Us Congress. “The Jobs Act [Jumpstart Our Business Startups] will help crowdfunding evolve past donations and rewards, but the rules are still being defined and it hasn’t benefitted many people yet,” Paternot said.
He also explained how crowdfunding in any form still accounts for a tiny fraction of the $14bn spent on making independent movies in the Us each year: “You can raise around 10% through fans and have to raise 90% yourself. Crowdfunding does not...
- 10/8/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Online film investment hub Slated, which launched at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, has fostered its first two projects: a modern version of Anton Chekov’s “The Seagull” and Marina Zenovich’s documentary follow-up to “Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired.” Co-founded by Duncan Cork, Stephan Paternot, William Mapother and Gavan Gravesen, Slated is designed to link up filmmakers, producers and investors in a secure and self-vetted digital environment devoted to creating high-quality indie films. Still in beta, Slated has accrued a pool of accredited investors with more than $100 million in capital for film investment. Directed by actor Christian Camargo (“The Hurt Locker”), “Seagull” stars Allison Janney, William Hurt and Katie Holmes and is scheduled to begin filming in upstate New York this summer with funds raised partially through Slated. Russell Means, Jean Reno, Mark Rylance and Juliet Rylance are also...
- 5/8/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- Indiewire
As the Sundance Film Festival once again gets underway with its annual showcase of independent filmmakers and their work, Stephan Paternot and Duncan Cork are launching an enterprise that they hope will facilitate even more indie filmmaking. Called Slated, the online hub is designed to provide a private investment network for established independent filmmakers looking for backers, and investors looking for seasoned filmmakers with quality projects and solid reputations. Paternot, the new company’s chairman, and Cork, its CEO, aim to create an exclusive marketplace where filmmakers, distributors, investors and sales agents can interact with each other and track projects in
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- 1/21/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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