Finance company Forest Road and entertainment payroll specialist GreenSlate Co. have launched a new strategic partnership, Variety has learned exclusively.
Under the deal, Forest Road will engage GreenSlate as its preferred service provider to independent film and television producers for its low-cost financing options for tax-related collateral. GreenSlate’s clients have included “I, Tonya,” “Moonlight,” TBS’s “Search Party” and Comedy Central’s “Broad City.”
The partnership combines GreenSlate’s digital offerings for payroll, accounting, and tax incentive management with Forest Road’s financing model and comes on the heels of the formation of Roadrunner Capital, Forest Road’s joint venture with The Exchange as a one-stop solution for distribution, payroll and financing needs. Projects will be co-managed by GreenSlate and Forest Road executives.
“Over the last year, we have been asking ourselves how to vertically integrate a suite of services for the independent film industry,” said Forest Road founder Zachary Tucker.
Under the deal, Forest Road will engage GreenSlate as its preferred service provider to independent film and television producers for its low-cost financing options for tax-related collateral. GreenSlate’s clients have included “I, Tonya,” “Moonlight,” TBS’s “Search Party” and Comedy Central’s “Broad City.”
The partnership combines GreenSlate’s digital offerings for payroll, accounting, and tax incentive management with Forest Road’s financing model and comes on the heels of the formation of Roadrunner Capital, Forest Road’s joint venture with The Exchange as a one-stop solution for distribution, payroll and financing needs. Projects will be co-managed by GreenSlate and Forest Road executives.
“Over the last year, we have been asking ourselves how to vertically integrate a suite of services for the independent film industry,” said Forest Road founder Zachary Tucker.
- 5/15/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Film franchise reboots are often difficult to make. This is due to the fact that point of views of directors and writers are different and also as time goes by what might have been politically correct or socially acceptable at one point may not be in our present day. About a month ago, one of our favorite group of teenage heroes the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers got a reboot on the big screen. Saban's Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, from Lionsgate, grossed $40.3 million in its opening weekend with some mixed reviews. But what did some of the former rangers think about the film?
Comicbook.com caught up with David Yost, who played Bill Cranston the Blue Ranger, and Walter Jones, who played Zach Taylor the Blue Ranger, at C2E2 in Chicago. They both took some time on stage during the convention to talk about some of the things that they...
Comicbook.com caught up with David Yost, who played Bill Cranston the Blue Ranger, and Walter Jones, who played Zach Taylor the Blue Ranger, at C2E2 in Chicago. They both took some time on stage during the convention to talk about some of the things that they...
- 4/26/2017
- by Emmanuel Gomez
- LRMonline.com
Filmmaker and Filmmaker contributor Alix Lambert is a guest producer on this week’s Theory of Everything, where she learns that it’s not just hipsters causing a revival in the audio cassette format but prisoners. Indeed, for most prisoners, cassettes are the only music delivery device they’re allowed. Listen to her episode, “Analog Time,” embedded here, as Lambert talks to some incarcerated men for whom cassette tapes are an escape, a salve, and even a medium of exchange. Meanwhile, Zach Taylor and Georg Petzold are finishing Cassette, “a feature-length documentary that celebrates the past, present, and future of an endearing musical […]...
- 5/31/2016
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Read our exclusive interview with Titus Makin, Jr., who recently appeared as Mickey O’Malley in the second direct-to-video sequel in the ‘Cinderella Story’ series, ‘Once Upon a Song.’ The actor and musician also landed his first leading role, as Zach Taylor, in the latest NBC Walmart/P&G family film ‘Game of Your Life.’ Makin, Jr. is also playing the recurring part of David, a friend of Darren Criss’ character Blaine and a Warbler member of the Dalton Acad, on ‘Glee,’ for the second concurrent season. He discusses with us, among other things, what attracted him to the roles, and how working in films differs than working on television. ShockYa (Sy): You...
- 12/8/2011
- by karen
- ShockYa
Gore Verbinski is reportedly developing a new television series for Starz. Deadline says that the Rango director is working on a supernatural crime drama called The Brink. The show follows an art therapist called Zach Taylor as he investigates alleged serial killer Martin Grace. Martin insists that he predicted the victims' deaths but claims that he was not responsible (more)...
- 3/17/2011
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
Starz is teaming up with Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski and The Grudge writer Stephen Susco to adapt a supernatural crime drama based on the thriller by J.C. Hutchins. The Brink will be based on Hutchins’ book Personal Effects: Dark Art, an interactive thriller with online content.
Personal Effects: Dark Art is described by CSI creator Anthony Zuiker as “equal parts House, CSI, and The X-Files.” The story follows Zach Taylor, an art therapist investigating “the life and madness of Martin Grace, an accused serial killer who claims to have foreseen, but not caused, his victims’ deaths.”
[Source] Deadline...
Personal Effects: Dark Art is described by CSI creator Anthony Zuiker as “equal parts House, CSI, and The X-Files.” The story follows Zach Taylor, an art therapist investigating “the life and madness of Martin Grace, an accused serial killer who claims to have foreseen, but not caused, his victims’ deaths.”
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- 3/17/2011
- by Lillian 'zenbitch' Standefer
- ScifiMafia
More supernatural TV is coming our way, this time courtesy of Starz; and this one is carrying some pretty big names with it! Read on for the details.
According to Deadline Starz is developing "The Brink", a supernatural crime drama project written by The Grudge scribe Stephen Susco and executive produced by Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski.
"The Brink" is based on J.C. Hutchins’ book Personal Effects: Dark Art. The interactive supernatural thriller, which features various online extensions, is described by CSI creator Anthony Zuiker in his review as "equal parts House, CSI, and The X-Files." It chronicles art therapist Zach Taylor’s investigation into the life and madness of Martin Grace, an accused serial killer who claims to have foreseen, but not caused, his victims’ deaths.
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According to Deadline Starz is developing "The Brink", a supernatural crime drama project written by The Grudge scribe Stephen Susco and executive produced by Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski.
"The Brink" is based on J.C. Hutchins’ book Personal Effects: Dark Art. The interactive supernatural thriller, which features various online extensions, is described by CSI creator Anthony Zuiker in his review as "equal parts House, CSI, and The X-Files." It chronicles art therapist Zach Taylor’s investigation into the life and madness of Martin Grace, an accused serial killer who claims to have foreseen, but not caused, his victims’ deaths.
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- 3/16/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Get ready to be on The Brink! sounds cool doesn’t just like when we said “get on the Fringe of science” as a way to excite ourselves for that once upon a time drama now in its fourth season on Fox. Starz is developingThe Brink, a supernatural crime drama project written by The Grudge scribe Stephen Susco and executive produced by Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski through his Blind Wink Prods. The Brink is based on J.C. Hutchins’ book Personal Effects: Dark Art.
Deadline reports that the project “features various online extensions, described by CSI creator Anthony Zuiker in his review as “equal parts House, CSI, and The X-Files.” It chronicles art therapist Zach Taylor’s investigation into the life and madness of Martin Grace, an accused serial killer who claims to have foreseen, but not caused, his victims’ deaths.”
This not Verbinski’s first...
Deadline reports that the project “features various online extensions, described by CSI creator Anthony Zuiker in his review as “equal parts House, CSI, and The X-Files.” It chronicles art therapist Zach Taylor’s investigation into the life and madness of Martin Grace, an accused serial killer who claims to have foreseen, but not caused, his victims’ deaths.”
This not Verbinski’s first...
- 3/15/2011
- by Kevin Coll
- FusedFilm
Filmmaker Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean) is developing a new TV project for Starz called The Brink, based on a interactive book from J.C. Hutchins called Personal Effects: Dark Art. The project is described as a supernatural crime drama and was written by The Grudge scribe Stephen Susco.
The story follows art therapist Zach Taylor’s investigation into the life and madness of Martin Grace, an accused serial killer who claims to have foreseen, but not caused, his victims’ deaths.
This could be an incredibly cool series.
Here's a description of the story from the author's website.
Personal Effects: Dark Art follows the extensive notes of art therapist Zach Taylor’s investigation into the life and madness of Martin Grace, an accused serial killer who claims to have foreseen, but not caused, his victims’ deaths.
Zach’s investigations start with interviews and art sessions, but then...
The story follows art therapist Zach Taylor’s investigation into the life and madness of Martin Grace, an accused serial killer who claims to have foreseen, but not caused, his victims’ deaths.
This could be an incredibly cool series.
Here's a description of the story from the author's website.
Personal Effects: Dark Art follows the extensive notes of art therapist Zach Taylor’s investigation into the life and madness of Martin Grace, an accused serial killer who claims to have foreseen, but not caused, his victims’ deaths.
Zach’s investigations start with interviews and art sessions, but then...
- 3/15/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Exclusive: Starz is developing The Brink, a supernatural crime drama project written by The Grudge scribe Stephen Susco and executive produced by Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski through his Blind Wink Prods. The Brink is based on J.C. Hutchins’ book Personal Effects: Dark Art. The interactive supernatural thriller, which features various online extensions, is described by CSI creator Anthony Zuiker in his review as "equal parts House, CSI, and The X-Files." It chronicles art therapist Zach Taylor’s investigation into the life and madness of Martin Grace, an accused serial killer who claims to have foreseen, but not caused, his victims’ deaths. Blind Wink's Jonathan Krauss is executive producing in addition to Verbinski. Verbinski -- whose latest film, the Johhny Depp-starring animated adventure Rango, is riding high at the box office -- first ventured into television in the fall with another supernatural drama. Titled Magical Law,...
- 3/15/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Gore Verbinski is executive producing The Brink which Starz is developing. The supernatural crime drama is written by The Grudge writer Stephen Susco. Verbinski, director of the previous installments of the Pirates of the Caribbean films, will exec produce via his Blind Wink Productions, reports Deadline. Based on J.C. Hutchins’ book Personal Effects: Dark Art, The Brink is an interactive supernatural thriller. Story follows art therapist Zach Taylor’s investigation into the life and madness of accused serial killer Martin Grace, who claims to have foreseen (but not caused) his victims’ deaths. Blind Wink's Jonathan Krauss will also serve as an executive producer for The Brink...
- 3/15/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Gore Verbinski is executive producing The Brink which Starz is developing. The supernatural crime drama is written by The Grudge writer Stephen Susco. Verbinski, director of the previous installments of the Pirates of the Caribbean films, will exec produce via his Blind Wink Productions, reports Deadline. Based on J.C. Hutchins’ book Personal Effects: Dark Art, The Brink is an interactive supernatural thriller. Story follows art therapist Zach Taylor’s investigation into the life and madness of accused serial killer Martin Grace, who claims to have foreseen (but not caused) his victims’ deaths. Blind Wink's Jonathan Krauss will also serve as an executive producer for The Brink...
- 3/15/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Gore Verbinksi has lined up a project for television in the form of "The Brink," Deadline reports. The Starz series, described as a "supernatural crime drama," arrives from writer Stephen Susco ( The Grudge ) and is, in turn, based on the interactive fiction book from J.C. Hutchins, "Personal Effects: Dark Art." The innovative novel is described on the author's website as follows: Personal Effects: Dark Art follows the extensive notes of art therapist Zach Taylor.s investigation into the life and madness of Martin Grace, an accused serial killer who claims to have foreseen, but not caused, his victims. deaths. Zach.s investigations start with interviews and art sessions, but then take him far from the hospital grounds . and often very far from...
- 3/15/2011
- Comingsoon.net
Is Demi Lovato leaving rehab??? Rumor has it, yes! Blogger Zach Taylor claims to have inside information on her being almost done with her treatment. "Demi has been making big changes in her life, and is excited about what the future holds. She will be getting out very soon,” says the source. Now, I’m taking this with a grain of salt, since it’s Zach Taylor, and he’s been wrong about things in the past! But the site just may be right this time, since a new song of Demi’s just leaked. The song is called “Shut...
- 1/26/2011
- Hollyscoop.com
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Today's creep is brought to you by our "Jersey Shore" buddies and Enrique Iglesias in the video for "I Like it," which from what we can tell is all about creepin' while your man or woman is out of town. Et tu, Enrique?
In this creep, check out the boys' 'Queer Issue,' we learn Pauly D's junk may be on tape, MTV has succumbed to the Italian-American pressure, J-woww wants to dress you in her duds and The Situation is following suit.
Queer issues: Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino, Vinny Guadagnino and Ronnie Magro pose for some pretty steamin' pictures for The Village Voice. But according to Page Six, the guys had no clue they were posing for the "Queer Issue" alongside a story titled, "The Guido Ideal" -- about gay Jersey guidos on the D.L. Mike commented on facebook.
Today's creep is brought to you by our "Jersey Shore" buddies and Enrique Iglesias in the video for "I Like it," which from what we can tell is all about creepin' while your man or woman is out of town. Et tu, Enrique?
In this creep, check out the boys' 'Queer Issue,' we learn Pauly D's junk may be on tape, MTV has succumbed to the Italian-American pressure, J-woww wants to dress you in her duds and The Situation is following suit.
Queer issues: Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino, Vinny Guadagnino and Ronnie Magro pose for some pretty steamin' pictures for The Village Voice. But according to Page Six, the guys had no clue they were posing for the "Queer Issue" alongside a story titled, "The Guido Ideal" -- about gay Jersey guidos on the D.L. Mike commented on facebook.
- 6/24/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Coming this June from St. Martin’s Press is a new horror novel that, thanks to additional media elements, will be much more than a simple read. Personal Effects: Dark Art also encompasses viral/alternate-reality elements such as websites, podcasts and voice mails that will keep readers immersed in its world.
The book, written by J.C. Hutchins and Jordan Weisman, tells the story of Martin Grace, a serial killer being investigated by art therapist, Zach Taylor. The story incorporates Zach’s personal writings as he tries to find the truth behind the slayings Martin is accused of. Martin claims to have foreseen his victims’ deaths, but did not cause them; the actual killings were the work of a “Dark Man.” In order to uncover the real story, Zach seeks help from his girlfriend Rachael, a gaming blogger, and his brother Lukas. His search into Martin’s past, however,...
The book, written by J.C. Hutchins and Jordan Weisman, tells the story of Martin Grace, a serial killer being investigated by art therapist, Zach Taylor. The story incorporates Zach’s personal writings as he tries to find the truth behind the slayings Martin is accused of. Martin claims to have foreseen his victims’ deaths, but did not cause them; the actual killings were the work of a “Dark Man.” In order to uncover the real story, Zach seeks help from his girlfriend Rachael, a gaming blogger, and his brother Lukas. His search into Martin’s past, however,...
- 2/17/2009
- Fangoria
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