Link Entertainment has promoted Vivek Kolli to manager as a part of the company’s continuing expansion of its management division.
Kolli joined Link in 2019 as a Talent assistant and was promoted to Talent coordinator in 2021.
“For the past 4 years, Vivek has shown a constant passion for our clients and our company,” the Link partners said in a joint statement. “He is the epitome of a team player and his work ethnic has been second to none. Further, he is extremely bright, creative and genuine. To say his promotion is well deserved is an understatement”.
Kolli graduated in 2017 from the University of Texas at Austin with both a Bachelor of Arts in Latin and a Bachelor of Science in Radio-Television-Film.
Link Entertainment was established 20 years ago by Brian Wilkins, Ben Levine and Erik Kritzer. Literary manager and producer Brad Kaplan is also a partner.
Link currently has management divisions that are spread among talent,...
Kolli joined Link in 2019 as a Talent assistant and was promoted to Talent coordinator in 2021.
“For the past 4 years, Vivek has shown a constant passion for our clients and our company,” the Link partners said in a joint statement. “He is the epitome of a team player and his work ethnic has been second to none. Further, he is extremely bright, creative and genuine. To say his promotion is well deserved is an understatement”.
Kolli graduated in 2017 from the University of Texas at Austin with both a Bachelor of Arts in Latin and a Bachelor of Science in Radio-Television-Film.
Link Entertainment was established 20 years ago by Brian Wilkins, Ben Levine and Erik Kritzer. Literary manager and producer Brad Kaplan is also a partner.
Link currently has management divisions that are spread among talent,...
- 2/2/2024
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
“Power” star Omari Hardwick is in final negotiations to lead the upcoming horror-thriller “Spell,” sources tell Variety.
Hardwick’s attachment to the Paramount Players project comes just as his hit crime drama is set to finish up with its sixth and final season.
“Spell” follows a man (Hardwick) who crashes his plane while en route to rural Appalachia with his family for a funeral and awakens to find himself totally alone and without his bearings. Relieved to be discovered by a seemingly kind elderly couple, he has no way of knowing the dark machinations that lie in wait as he is pulled deeper and deeper into a sinister world.
“Hush” (2008) and “House at the End of the Street” director Mark Tonderai will helm from a script by “Point Break” (2015) and “Total Recall” (2012) scribe Kurt Wimmer. Wimmer will also produce along with Gordon Gray, Morris Chestnut and Brian Wilkins.
“Spell” will hit theaters Aug.
Hardwick’s attachment to the Paramount Players project comes just as his hit crime drama is set to finish up with its sixth and final season.
“Spell” follows a man (Hardwick) who crashes his plane while en route to rural Appalachia with his family for a funeral and awakens to find himself totally alone and without his bearings. Relieved to be discovered by a seemingly kind elderly couple, he has no way of knowing the dark machinations that lie in wait as he is pulled deeper and deeper into a sinister world.
“Hush” (2008) and “House at the End of the Street” director Mark Tonderai will helm from a script by “Point Break” (2015) and “Total Recall” (2012) scribe Kurt Wimmer. Wimmer will also produce along with Gordon Gray, Morris Chestnut and Brian Wilkins.
“Spell” will hit theaters Aug.
- 9/9/2019
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
Indican Pictures has acquired the North American distribution rights to the documentary Lost in America, executive produced by Rosario Dawson and Jewel. Directed by Rotimi Rainwater, the documentary feature is the first film to take a national look at the issue of youth homelessness in America, highlighting the main issues that surround it: sex trafficking, the failure of the foster care system, and the rampant rejection of Lgbtq youth. It is slated for a theatrical release in November.
Created by Village Entertainment, in association with Go Spectrum Studios, Chhibber Mann Productions, and Lynchpin Productions, Lost In America follows director Rainwater, a former homeless youth, on his six-year journey to shine a light on the issue of youth homelessness.
The film features interviews with more than 30 youth in 15 cities, as well as politicians and public figures including Tiffany Haddish, Halle Berry, Jon Bon Jovi, Miley Cyrus, Sanaa Lathan, Rebecca Gayheart-Dane. This film gives an unflinching,...
Created by Village Entertainment, in association with Go Spectrum Studios, Chhibber Mann Productions, and Lynchpin Productions, Lost In America follows director Rainwater, a former homeless youth, on his six-year journey to shine a light on the issue of youth homelessness.
The film features interviews with more than 30 youth in 15 cities, as well as politicians and public figures including Tiffany Haddish, Halle Berry, Jon Bon Jovi, Miley Cyrus, Sanaa Lathan, Rebecca Gayheart-Dane. This film gives an unflinching,...
- 8/29/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Veteran manager/producer Brad Kaplan has joined Link Entertainment as a partner. Kaplan, who comes from Primary Wave Entertainment, will work out of Link’s West L.A. offices which were expanded last month in part to make room for the company’s growing literary department.
“We have had the privilege to work with Brad in the past and he has been a friend for over 15 years,” the Link partners said in a statement. “He is one of the smartest and most genuine people we have had the pleasure to collaborate with. As we expand our literary/production division, we couldn’t ask for a better partner. We have always admired Brad’s incredible taste in both clients and material”.
Kaplan started his career at Silver Pictures where he worked as a production executive and worked on such films as Lethal Weapon 4, Conspiracy Theory, Executive Decision and The Matrix.
“We have had the privilege to work with Brad in the past and he has been a friend for over 15 years,” the Link partners said in a statement. “He is one of the smartest and most genuine people we have had the pleasure to collaborate with. As we expand our literary/production division, we couldn’t ask for a better partner. We have always admired Brad’s incredible taste in both clients and material”.
Kaplan started his career at Silver Pictures where he worked as a production executive and worked on such films as Lethal Weapon 4, Conspiracy Theory, Executive Decision and The Matrix.
- 2/11/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Momentum Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to the Ron Perlman-starring Asher, and has set a December 7 theatrical release date for the action crime drama directed by Michael Caton-Jones and penned by Jay Zaretsky.
The pic centers on Asher (Perlman), a Mossad-agent-turned-gun-for-hire near the end of his killing days, who breaks the hitman oath when he meets Sophie (Famke Janssen) on a job gone sideways. In order to live a real life before it’s too late, he must kill the man he was for one last chance at becoming the man he always wanted to be. Richard Dreyfuss and Peter Facinelli co-star.
The deal for eOne-based label Momentum comes ahead of Asher’s world premiere in October at the Sitges Film Festival in Spain, where it will open the fest’s Òrbita section. Perlman, who also produced via his Wing and a Prayer Pictures banner, will be...
The pic centers on Asher (Perlman), a Mossad-agent-turned-gun-for-hire near the end of his killing days, who breaks the hitman oath when he meets Sophie (Famke Janssen) on a job gone sideways. In order to live a real life before it’s too late, he must kill the man he was for one last chance at becoming the man he always wanted to be. Richard Dreyfuss and Peter Facinelli co-star.
The deal for eOne-based label Momentum comes ahead of Asher’s world premiere in October at the Sitges Film Festival in Spain, where it will open the fest’s Òrbita section. Perlman, who also produced via his Wing and a Prayer Pictures banner, will be...
- 8/29/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, Jon Tenney will play the on-screen spouse of Helen Hunt’s character, the documentary “The Workers Cup” gets a release, and Dances With Films announces its opening and closing titles.
Casting
Jon Tenney will star opposite Helen Hunt in the indie thriller “I See You” for director Adam Randall from a script by Devon Graye.
Matt Waldeck will produce for Zodiac Features. Tenney will play the on-screen husband to Hunt’s detective character, who is under an intolerable amount of strain.
Tenney is currently in production on the third season of HBO’s “True Detective” alongside Mahershala Ali and Stephen Dorff, and will appear in six of the eight episodes and will segue directly from that set to the Cleveland location of “I See You.”
Tenney stars in “The Seagull” from Sony Classics with Annette Bening, Saoirse Ronan, and Elisabeth Moss, which opens in a limited release on Friday.
Casting
Jon Tenney will star opposite Helen Hunt in the indie thriller “I See You” for director Adam Randall from a script by Devon Graye.
Matt Waldeck will produce for Zodiac Features. Tenney will play the on-screen husband to Hunt’s detective character, who is under an intolerable amount of strain.
Tenney is currently in production on the third season of HBO’s “True Detective” alongside Mahershala Ali and Stephen Dorff, and will appear in six of the eight episodes and will segue directly from that set to the Cleveland location of “I See You.”
Tenney stars in “The Seagull” from Sony Classics with Annette Bening, Saoirse Ronan, and Elisabeth Moss, which opens in a limited release on Friday.
- 5/11/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Famke Janssen has joined Ron Perlman, Richard Dreyfuss, Peter Facinelli and Nadine Velazquez in Michael Caton-Jones’ Asher, a film about a Mossad member-turned-gun-for-hire in New York who is living the good life but at the end of his career. When one of his final gigs goes upside down on a job involving a woman, he has to make a life-altering decision. The original script was written by Jay Zaretsky. Josh Crook, Adam Folk, Perlman and Brian Wilkins are listed…...
- 4/27/2017
- Deadline
Mark Forster’s recent Toronto world premiere starring Blake Lively and Jason Clarke has found its Us home.
Open Road has set an August 4, 2017, theatrical release for the thriller from Sc International Pictures, 2Dux2, Wing And A Prayer Pictures and Link Entertainment.
All I See Is You tells of a blind woman who discovers disturbing details about her marriage after her sight returns unexpectedly.
The cast includes Yvonne Strahovski, Danny Huston, Ahna O’Reilly and Wes Chatham. Craig Baumgarten, Michael Selby, Forster and Jillian Kugler produced.
Serving as executive producers are Ron Perlman, Brian Wilkins and Renee Wolfe.
Open Road brokered the deal with Wme Global, Baumgarten and Selby.
Meanwhile the distributor announced it has moved Sleepless from February 24, 2017, to January 13, 2017. Jamie Foxx plays an undercover Las Vegas police officer caught up in a web of corruption. Coming-of-age drama Before I Fall starring Zoey Deutch has moved from April 7, 2017, to March 3, 2017.
Open Road has set an August 4, 2017, theatrical release for the thriller from Sc International Pictures, 2Dux2, Wing And A Prayer Pictures and Link Entertainment.
All I See Is You tells of a blind woman who discovers disturbing details about her marriage after her sight returns unexpectedly.
The cast includes Yvonne Strahovski, Danny Huston, Ahna O’Reilly and Wes Chatham. Craig Baumgarten, Michael Selby, Forster and Jillian Kugler produced.
Serving as executive producers are Ron Perlman, Brian Wilkins and Renee Wolfe.
Open Road brokered the deal with Wme Global, Baumgarten and Selby.
Meanwhile the distributor announced it has moved Sleepless from February 24, 2017, to January 13, 2017. Jamie Foxx plays an undercover Las Vegas police officer caught up in a web of corruption. Coming-of-age drama Before I Fall starring Zoey Deutch has moved from April 7, 2017, to March 3, 2017.
- 10/25/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Marc Forster has commenced principal photography in Thailand on the psychological thriller starring Blake Lively and Jason Clarke.
Sc Pictures International finances and Sierra/Affinity handles international sales. CAA represents Us rights.
Forster co-wrote the screenplay with Sean Conway about a blind woman who learns disturbing things about her marriage after she gets a corneal transplant.
The cast includes Ahna O’Reilly, Wes Chatham, June Diane Raphael, Danny Huston and Miguel Fernandez.
Forster produces All I See Is You alongside Craig Baumgarten, Michael Selby and Jillian Kugler. Brian Wilkins, Ron Perlman and Renee Wolfe are the executive producers.
The film is scheduled to shoot for eight weeks on location in Bangkok and Phuket and will move to the south of Spain for the final three weeks.
Sc Pictures International finances and Sierra/Affinity handles international sales. CAA represents Us rights.
Forster co-wrote the screenplay with Sean Conway about a blind woman who learns disturbing things about her marriage after she gets a corneal transplant.
The cast includes Ahna O’Reilly, Wes Chatham, June Diane Raphael, Danny Huston and Miguel Fernandez.
Forster produces All I See Is You alongside Craig Baumgarten, Michael Selby and Jillian Kugler. Brian Wilkins, Ron Perlman and Renee Wolfe are the executive producers.
The film is scheduled to shoot for eight weeks on location in Bangkok and Phuket and will move to the south of Spain for the final three weeks.
- 6/3/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
World War Z helmer Marc Forster has set Blake Lively and Jason Clarke to star in All I See Is You, an Sc International Pictures-funded indie that Forster wrote with Sean Conway. Sc International Pictures, run by Michael Selby, will produce with Wing And A Prayer Pictures, Link Entertainment and 2Dux2. Forster produces with Craig Baumgarten, Michael Selby and Jillian Kugler. Brian Wilkins, Ron Perlman, the Sons Of Anarchy star behind Wing And A Prayer and Renee Wolfe will…...
- 2/27/2015
- Deadline
Big news today: We’re excited to announce Amazon Studios’ third pilot season, beginning August 28th and featuring three half hour comedies The Cosmopolitans, Really and Red Oaks, and two hour-long dramatic thrillers Hand of God and Hysteria. For one month, it will be up to you to watch, rate and comment – ultimately helping us decide which of them get the greenlight.
“There is something for everyone in this season,” says Roy Price, Director of Amazon Studios. The glamorous life of modern day expats in Paris. The hijinks of a summer job at a country club in 1980s New Jersey. The visions of a vigilante judge who appears to be channeling God. The complexities of marriage and friendship among a circle of friends in suburban Chicago. And the mysteries behind a psycho-physiological illness spreading through a small town in Texas.
You can help choose which of these stories should get “picked up” to become shows.
“There is something for everyone in this season,” says Roy Price, Director of Amazon Studios. The glamorous life of modern day expats in Paris. The hijinks of a summer job at a country club in 1980s New Jersey. The visions of a vigilante judge who appears to be channeling God. The complexities of marriage and friendship among a circle of friends in suburban Chicago. And the mysteries behind a psycho-physiological illness spreading through a small town in Texas.
You can help choose which of these stories should get “picked up” to become shows.
- 8/11/2014
- Hollywonk
Management and production company Kritzer Levine Wilkins Griffin Nilon Entertainment (Klwgn) has changed its name to Link. The company’s name had expanded over the past decade, since it was founded in 2004 by Brian Wilkins after he left Evolution Entertainment. He partnered with Ben Levine, with whom he had worked with at Evolution, and Wilkins’ former boss at William Morris, Erik Kritzer. Adam Griffin joined Kritzer Levine Wilkins Entertainment as a talent manager in 2006 and was promoted to partner three years later. In 2012, after 15 years as a talent agent at CAA, Mike Nilon joined the company as […]...
- 6/24/2014
- Deadline
Seeking to create “a haven for the artists that I love and admire”, the actor has launched production company and film fund Wing And A Prayer Pictures and will attend Cannes to introduce the venture.
Perlman has teamed up with financiers Josh and Randy Crook. The plan is to produce and finance up to three dramas and elevated genre titles a year with A-list talent in the $3-10m range.
Jay Cohen of Gersh and Erik Kritzer and Brian Wilkins of Link Entertainment will assume management positions in the company.
Wilkins and Kritzer will serve as co-heads of production for Wing And A Prayer, while Cohen will act as advisory partner to source material, package projects and negotiate the film deals.
Perlman, who just starred in the Amazon pilot Hand Of God directed by Marc Forster, will produce the features and may take acting and directing roles.
“I am looking to create a haven for the artists...
Perlman has teamed up with financiers Josh and Randy Crook. The plan is to produce and finance up to three dramas and elevated genre titles a year with A-list talent in the $3-10m range.
Jay Cohen of Gersh and Erik Kritzer and Brian Wilkins of Link Entertainment will assume management positions in the company.
Wilkins and Kritzer will serve as co-heads of production for Wing And A Prayer, while Cohen will act as advisory partner to source material, package projects and negotiate the film deals.
Perlman, who just starred in the Amazon pilot Hand Of God directed by Marc Forster, will produce the features and may take acting and directing roles.
“I am looking to create a haven for the artists...
- 5/8/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Amazon Studios is steadily announcing its new production lineup, with several new series and pilots greenlit over the past few weeks. Of interest to our readers, the studio has greenlit Hand of God, a one-hour drama pilot from Executive Producers Marc Forster, Ben Watkins, Ron Perlman, Brian Wilkins and Jeff King. The show centers on "the powerful Judge Pernell Harris (Ron Perlman), a hard-living, law-bending married man with a high-end call girl on the side, who suffers a mental breakdown and goes on a vigilante quest to find the rapist who tore his family apart. With no real evidence to go on, Pernell begins to rely on 'visions' and 'messages'...
- 4/12/2014
- by Jai Tiggett
- ShadowAndAct
Amazon Studios today announced it has greenlit two new pilots—the half hour dramatic comedy The Cosmopolitans, from Whit Stillman, and one hour drama Hand of God from Executive Producers Marc Forster, Ben Watkins, Ron Perlman, Brian Wilkins and Jeff King—for its third pilot season debuting later this year on Amazon Instant Video. Customers will once again be invited to watch and provide feedback on the shows they want to see turned into full series, which will then become available on Prime Instant Video. Additional pilots joining The Cosmopolitans and Hand of God in the third pilot season will be announced in the coming weeks. More on the pilots:
The Cosmopolitans
Written, directed and produced by Academy Award nominee Whit Stillman (Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco), The Cosmopolitans follows a group of young American expatriates in Paris searching for love and friendship in a foreign city. The...
The Cosmopolitans
Written, directed and produced by Academy Award nominee Whit Stillman (Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco), The Cosmopolitans follows a group of young American expatriates in Paris searching for love and friendship in a foreign city. The...
- 4/9/2014
- Hollywonk
Amazon Studios traditionally doesn’t announce its pilots until they’re fully cast and starting production. That is why it this morning confirmed the first two pilots from its third pilot season — half-hour dramatic comedy The Cosmopolitans, from Whit Stillman, and one-hour drama Hand Of God, from executive producers Marc Forster, Ben Watkins, Ron Perlman, Brian Wilkins and Jeff King. Both were greenlighted in January. The Cosmopolitans, about young American expatriates in Paris searching for love and friendship, stars Adam Brody and Chloë Sevigny. Hand Of God stars Ron Perlman as a hard-living powerful judge-turned vigilante and co-stars Dana Delany and Garret Dillahunt. Yet to be confirmed are three other Amazon pilots ordered this year, single-camera comedy Red Oaks, executive produced by Steven Soderbergh and executive produced and directed by David Gordon Green, Shaun Cassidy’s drama Hysteria and Samuel Baum’s dramedy Cocked. Here are detailed descriptions and credits...
- 4/9/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Amazon Studios has landed some big name collaborators, partnering with indie darling Whit Stillman and “World War Z” director Marc Forster on a pair of pilots as the company continues to dive deeper into the world of original content. The company said Wednesday that it has greenlit the half-hour dramatic comedy “The Cosmopolitans,” from Stillman, and the one-hour drama “Hand of God” from Executive Producers Forster, Ben Watkins, Ron Perlman, Brian Wilkins and Jeff King. In true digital fashion, the company is crowd-sourcing its pilot process. Later this year, customers will be invited to watch and offer up their takes...
- 4/9/2014
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
Amazon Studios today announced it has greenlit two new pilots.the half hour dramatic comedy "The Cosmopolitans," from Whit Stillman, and one hour drama "Hand of God" from Executive Producers Marc Forster, Ben Watkins, Ron Perlman, Brian Wilkins and Jeff King.for its third pilot season debuting later this year on Amazon Instant Video. Customers will once again be invited to watch and provide feedback on the shows they want to see turned into full series, which will then become available on Prime Instant Video. Additional pilots joining "The Cosmopolitans" and "Hand of God" in the third pilot season will be announced in the coming weeks. "We're very pleased to be working with Whit, Ron, Ben, and Marc on developing these pilots," said...
- 4/9/2014
- Comingsoon.net
Two-time Emmy winner and former Body of Proof star Dana Delany has been cast in a leading role as Crystal Harris in Amazon Studio’s drama pilot Hand of God.
The studio’s description of the pilot: Hand of God centers on the powerful Judge Pernell (Ron Perlman, Sons of Anarchy) a hard-living, law-bending married man (to protective wife Crystal Harris) with a high-end call girl on the side, who has a religious awakening. He begins having visions and hearing voices through his ventilator-bound son that could be God speaking to him.
The script is by Ben Watkins (Burn Notice...
The studio’s description of the pilot: Hand of God centers on the powerful Judge Pernell (Ron Perlman, Sons of Anarchy) a hard-living, law-bending married man (to protective wife Crystal Harris) with a high-end call girl on the side, who has a religious awakening. He begins having visions and hearing voices through his ventilator-bound son that could be God speaking to him.
The script is by Ben Watkins (Burn Notice...
- 3/28/2014
- by Stephanie Robbins
- EW - Inside TV
Jon Tenney has inked a talent holding deal with the WB Network to star in a series project targeted for fall 2004. The deal reunites Tenney with the WB after he toplined the network's comedy pilot Sixteen to Life this past development season. Tenney's TV series credits include Fox's Dirty Dozen: The Series, CBS' Brooklyn South, CBS' Get Real and, most recently, NBC's Kristin. His recent feature credits include Buying the Cow, You Can Count on Me and 40. Tenney is repped by the Gersh Agency and manager Brian Wilkins at Evolution Entertainment.
- 11/26/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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