2500 Media, the Los Angeles-based production company founded by former WME non-scripted packaging agent and partner Sean Perry, has named its senior management team.
Perry launched 2500 Media early last summer and a few months later signed a deal with Lionsgate’s Pilgrim Media, which includes an exclusive unscripted agreement between 2500 Media and Pilgrim, as well as a first-look scripted pact with Lionsgate Television.
Perry has tapped Kendall Horn, who previously worked in development at Pilgrim, as head of development for 2500 Media. Nicole Taylor Perry (Scarred) has been named managing director, overseeing all operations and new business development. Pilgrim’s Nicole Urban will coordinate development for 2500 Media.
Under 2500 Media’s deal with Pilgrim/Lionsgate, the company works closely with Pilgrim’s development team, including Tom Huffman, Lauren LeMiex and Scott Eldridge, as well as Lionsgate’s Max Elins on the scripted side.
“I have immense gratitude for the staff at Lionsgate Alternative Television...
Perry launched 2500 Media early last summer and a few months later signed a deal with Lionsgate’s Pilgrim Media, which includes an exclusive unscripted agreement between 2500 Media and Pilgrim, as well as a first-look scripted pact with Lionsgate Television.
Perry has tapped Kendall Horn, who previously worked in development at Pilgrim, as head of development for 2500 Media. Nicole Taylor Perry (Scarred) has been named managing director, overseeing all operations and new business development. Pilgrim’s Nicole Urban will coordinate development for 2500 Media.
Under 2500 Media’s deal with Pilgrim/Lionsgate, the company works closely with Pilgrim’s development team, including Tom Huffman, Lauren LeMiex and Scott Eldridge, as well as Lionsgate’s Max Elins on the scripted side.
“I have immense gratitude for the staff at Lionsgate Alternative Television...
- 2/21/2024
- by Denise Petski and Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Lionsgate Sound will launch its first companion podcast with a six-part podcast series in connection to Fox Nation’s “Jussie Smollett: Anatomy of a Hoax,” TheWrap can exclusively reveal.
“Attacking Jussie,” which launches March 13 on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, will feature exclusive interviews with Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo, the brothers hired by the former “Empire” actor to attack and stage a hate crime against him as they share their point of view for the first time in both the series and the podcast.
Hosted by Lionsgate Sound’s Charlie Webster, who also executive produces the podcast, the brothers will elaborate on the planning that went behind the hoax as the docuseries breaks down Smollett’s multi-step plans for faking the hate crime that generated outrage from the masses and public expressions of support prominent political figures, including Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.
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“Attacking Jussie,” which launches March 13 on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, will feature exclusive interviews with Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo, the brothers hired by the former “Empire” actor to attack and stage a hate crime against him as they share their point of view for the first time in both the series and the podcast.
Hosted by Lionsgate Sound’s Charlie Webster, who also executive produces the podcast, the brothers will elaborate on the planning that went behind the hoax as the docuseries breaks down Smollett’s multi-step plans for faking the hate crime that generated outrage from the masses and public expressions of support prominent political figures, including Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.
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Fox Nation’s Jussie...
- 3/13/2023
- by Loree Seitz
- The Wrap
The Ultimate Surfer producer Pilgrim Media Group has promoted a trio of execs in its development division.
The Lionsgate-backed company has handed promotions to Tom Huffman, who has been upped to Chief Creative Officer, Lauren Lemieux upped to VP and Head of Development and SVP, Original Content Scott Eldridge has had his duties expanded to include true-crime.
The company, which also makes series including Ghost Hunters and Street Outlaws, has also promoted Michael Dunn to Executive Director of Development, Christian Navarrete to Director of Development, Lauren Mickle to Coordinator and Cara Groom joined the group from Lionsgate as Director of Development.
Huffman and Eldridge joined Pilgrim in 2019 and Lemieux in 2018. Navarrete has served in various roles at Pilgrim since 2015, including heading up its e-sports division, Dunn, who has a production background, has been with the company since 2018 and Groom transitioned from Lionsgate after Craig Piligian was appointed head of Lionsgate’s unscripted business.
The Lionsgate-backed company has handed promotions to Tom Huffman, who has been upped to Chief Creative Officer, Lauren Lemieux upped to VP and Head of Development and SVP, Original Content Scott Eldridge has had his duties expanded to include true-crime.
The company, which also makes series including Ghost Hunters and Street Outlaws, has also promoted Michael Dunn to Executive Director of Development, Christian Navarrete to Director of Development, Lauren Mickle to Coordinator and Cara Groom joined the group from Lionsgate as Director of Development.
Huffman and Eldridge joined Pilgrim in 2019 and Lemieux in 2018. Navarrete has served in various roles at Pilgrim since 2015, including heading up its e-sports division, Dunn, who has a production background, has been with the company since 2018 and Groom transitioned from Lionsgate after Craig Piligian was appointed head of Lionsgate’s unscripted business.
- 12/17/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Lifetime has given the green light to three documentaries for its 2020 programming slate. They are From Darkness To Light, from three-time Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman, Emmy winner Leah Remini and A+E Originals; Smart Justice: The Jayme Closs Case hosted by Elizabeth Smart, and documentary film series Hopelessly In Love, from eOne and Creature Films.
Raisman and Remini have joined forces on From Darkness To Light, a documentary event in which Raisman helps victims of sexual assault find their voice in order to start healing and turn from victim to survivor. It was on January 20, 2018, that Raisman stared down her abuser, Larry Nasser, in a Michigan courtroom, rallying other victims to step forward and demand justice and accountability. Nasser is currently serving a 60-year federal prison sentence following his conviction on multiple charges of sexual assault.
Produced by A+E Originals and Remini’s No Seriously Productions, From Darkness...
Raisman and Remini have joined forces on From Darkness To Light, a documentary event in which Raisman helps victims of sexual assault find their voice in order to start healing and turn from victim to survivor. It was on January 20, 2018, that Raisman stared down her abuser, Larry Nasser, in a Michigan courtroom, rallying other victims to step forward and demand justice and accountability. Nasser is currently serving a 60-year federal prison sentence following his conviction on multiple charges of sexual assault.
Produced by A+E Originals and Remini’s No Seriously Productions, From Darkness...
- 3/27/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
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