Exclusive: The nascent LA studio run by industry vets Holly A. Hines and Eric Jarboe has signed a creative content boss and struck a deal with an IP platform.
Happy Accidents was launched earlier this year by the Ginny & Georgia EP and former COO of the Motion Picture Corporation of America (Mpca) to forge film and TV projects with a focus on international. It has snapped up Meredith Willis, who has worked across the likes of CSI, The Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother, as SVP of Creative Content in LA and London, where she will oversee development and production of feature and TV projects.
Willis was most recently Director of Development for Ellen Pompeo’s Calamity Jane Entertainment under a deal with ABC Studios, where she covered both scripted and unscripted television and film. Prior to that, she worked at Denver & Delilah for almost three years in television development and production,...
Happy Accidents was launched earlier this year by the Ginny & Georgia EP and former COO of the Motion Picture Corporation of America (Mpca) to forge film and TV projects with a focus on international. It has snapped up Meredith Willis, who has worked across the likes of CSI, The Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother, as SVP of Creative Content in LA and London, where she will oversee development and production of feature and TV projects.
Willis was most recently Director of Development for Ellen Pompeo’s Calamity Jane Entertainment under a deal with ABC Studios, where she covered both scripted and unscripted television and film. Prior to that, she worked at Denver & Delilah for almost three years in television development and production,...
- 5/29/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
“Ginny & Georgia” exec producer Holly A. Hines has partnered with Eric Jarboe, former COO of the Motion Picture Corporation of America (Mpca), to launch new L.A.-based film and TV studio Happy Accidents.
The studio will work with international partners to produce and distribute a wide range of original content including films, scripted and unscripted series, documentaries and formats. Happy Accidents will also distribute third-party content internationally.
Hines and Jarboe will be co-CEOs, managing both the creative and financial, and have already assembled a sales team including Grb Studios alum Sarah Coursey and Tyler Massey, formerly of Eyeworks Distribution.
As well as “Ginny & Georgia” Hines was behind U.S./Australian co-production “Please Like Me” and “Fortitude” and was a producer on “The Office,” “Ugly Betty” and “The Tudors.” She previously worked for Spotify Studios as head of network development as well as completing stints at Pivot and Fremantle North America.
The studio will work with international partners to produce and distribute a wide range of original content including films, scripted and unscripted series, documentaries and formats. Happy Accidents will also distribute third-party content internationally.
Hines and Jarboe will be co-CEOs, managing both the creative and financial, and have already assembled a sales team including Grb Studios alum Sarah Coursey and Tyler Massey, formerly of Eyeworks Distribution.
As well as “Ginny & Georgia” Hines was behind U.S./Australian co-production “Please Like Me” and “Fortitude” and was a producer on “The Office,” “Ugly Betty” and “The Tudors.” She previously worked for Spotify Studios as head of network development as well as completing stints at Pivot and Fremantle North America.
- 4/8/2024
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
All credit to Mark Russell, the founding artistic director of the Under the Radar Festival. After the Public Theater, which has produced the international and experimental theater festival since 2006, dropped Under the Radar from its annual programming, Russell rapidly rebuilt. With no central home this season, the festival’s shows now crop up over a greater radius of the city, from smaller downtown venues like the Abrons Arts Center and Performance Space New York to major entities like Bam and Theater for a New Audience.
In its new iteration, Under the Radar, which runs through January 21, hasn’t missed a step. In fact, since so many disparate venues have programmed and produced shows this year, Under the Radar seems poised to introduce festival-wide fans to the curated tastes of theaters across New York, potentially growing year-round audiences too. There’s also the sense that the festival, partnering with producing theaters...
In its new iteration, Under the Radar, which runs through January 21, hasn’t missed a step. In fact, since so many disparate venues have programmed and produced shows this year, Under the Radar seems poised to introduce festival-wide fans to the curated tastes of theaters across New York, potentially growing year-round audiences too. There’s also the sense that the festival, partnering with producing theaters...
- 1/20/2024
- by Dan Rubins
- Slant Magazine
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