Exclusive: Nick Harris, most recently the co-head of ICM’s Media Rights department, has teamed with entertainment financing specialist Jason Traub to form The Story Foundation. It is a funded company that will create intellectual properties that start as books with ancillary life in film, TV and other multi-platform opportunities. Harris will take a hands-on approach in hatching ideas and guiding writers to hone them. Traub has worked as a financier to banks specializing in entertainment, and most recently has been running his own boutique financing company focused on structured lending in the media world. He is also the brother-in-law of Harris, who has brokered book and movie deals at London-based AP Watt, Rwsg and ICM. Even though the publishing business is in some disarray, Harris said he is convinced — and convinced his brother-in-law — that this was a game worth playing. ”You’re asking how did I get a family...
- 4/23/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
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