Gotham, PELA Announce Merger
Submitted by Nick Dager on Thu, 02/28/2013 - 12:19.
The entertainment management and production company Gotham Group and talent management firm Principal Entertainment Los Angeles have joined forces, effective immediately and will be housed in The Gotham Group’s existing offices in Los Angeles. The announcement was made by Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, founder and CEO of The Gotham Group, and PELA partners Marsha McManus, Larry Taube and Liz Robinson. Gotham’s Lindsay Williams and Lee Stollman will help manage the relationship on the Gotham side.
“The intersection between PELA's impressive talent representation capabilities and Gotham’s broad expertise across the animation, film and television worlds will expand opportunities for all our clients,” said Goldstein-Vein.
“Gotham’s deep well of intellectual property and production resources is the perfect match to our impressive talent pool," said PELA’s McManus, Taube and Robinson.
Principal Entertainment Los Angeles boasts an international roster of highly respected film, television and stage actors as well as a powerful pool of writers, directors and producers McManus and Robinson have been in partnership as managers since 1993, and Taube joined them in 2006 after almost 20 years at William Morris and The Gersh Agency. Their client roster includes Seth Rogen, Emmy winner Jim Parsons, Emmy nominee Sandra Oh, Cheryl Hines, Alexander Skarsgard, Oscar nominee, Golden Globe and Emmy winner Tom Wilkinson, Golden Globe nominee Andy Serkis, Golden Globe nominee and Emmy winner Brendan Gleeson, Steve Zahn, Christopher Eccleston, Golden Globe winner Sally Hawkins, Emmy nominee Joanne Frogatt, Taylor Kinney, Katy Mixon, Emmy and Tony Award nominee Kate Burton, National Board of Review winner and Independent Spirit Award nominee Ann Dowd, Sally Pressman, James Roday, Paul Adelstein, Matt Lauria, Shea Whigham, Adam Arkin, Skylar Astin, Seth Numrich, and Oscar- nominated and Independent Spirit Award-winning Dan Futterman.
In addition, literary clients include writer director Stephen Kay, writer director Joe Ahearne as well as Lauren Ann Miller who wrote and starred in the 2012 Sundance hit For A Good Time Call. Among PELA’s top managers are Mike Smith, Jen Weinbaum, Atil Singh and Liz York who recently joined PELA from Management 360 bringing with her clients Jordana Brewster, Dylan O’Brien among others.
The Gotham Group, established in 1993 by Goldsmith-Vein, reps a client roster of over 300 top writers, directors, publishers, authors, illustrators, animation talent, and comic book companies. Gotham controls more source material than any other entity in the entertainment industry. Among its clients are publishers Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Bloomsbury Walker US, Soho, Dark Horse Comics, and Arcana. Other clients include: Henry Selick, Danny Strong, Dave Eggers, Steve Buscemi, David Gordon Green, Zach Helm, Thor Freudenthal, Wentworth Miller, Emily Kapnek, Dan Simmons, Angus Wall, Burr Steers, Adam Cozad, Brian Percival, Nick Santora, Aardman Animations, Robert Nelson Jacobs, Mark Steven Johnson, Chris Murphy, Jay Chandrasekhar, Mark Andrus, Dan Lagana, Butch Hartman, Doug Tenapel, Colum McCann, Mike Jones, and Tony DiTerlizzi.
On the production side, The Gotham Group has a first-look deal at Sony Pictures Animation for fully animated and CGI/hybrid films, as well as a first-look deal in television with ABC Studios. The Gotham Group is currently in production on an untitled Elmore Leonard project based on his novel The Switch. Written and directed by Daniel Schechter, the film stars Jennifer Aniston, John Hawkes, yasiin bey (aka Mos Def), Tim Robbins, Isla Fisher, Will Forte and Mark Boone Jr. A May production start is planned for The Maze Runner (Twentieth Century Fox), based on the novel by New York Times bestselling author James Dashner.
Other upcoming Gotham producing projects include: Simon Bloom: The Gravity Keeper, to be directed by Gary Ross for Universal; The Devil You Know, to be produced with Shawn Levy for 20th Century Fox; Ghostopolis, based on client Doug TenNapel’s graphic novel; Big Brave Brian starring Dwayne Johnson; Taking Gotham with Olivier Megaton (Colombiana) attached to direct, and Kodachrome, written by Jonathan Tropper and set up at Fox.
“The intersection between PELA's impressive talent representation capabilities and Gotham’s broad expertise across the animation, film and television worlds will expand opportunities for all our clients,” said Goldstein-Vein.
“Gotham’s deep well of intellectual property and production resources is the perfect match to our impressive talent pool," said PELA’s McManus, Taube and Robinson.
Principal Entertainment Los Angeles boasts an international roster of highly respected film, television and stage actors as well as a powerful pool of writers, directors and producers McManus and Robinson have been in partnership as managers since 1993, and Taube joined them in 2006 after almost 20 years at William Morris and The Gersh Agency. Their client roster includes Seth Rogen, Emmy winner Jim Parsons, Emmy nominee Sandra Oh, Cheryl Hines, Alexander Skarsgard, Oscar nominee, Golden Globe and Emmy winner Tom Wilkinson, Golden Globe nominee Andy Serkis, Golden Globe nominee and Emmy winner Brendan Gleeson, Steve Zahn, Christopher Eccleston, Golden Globe winner Sally Hawkins, Emmy nominee Joanne Frogatt, Taylor Kinney, Katy Mixon, Emmy and Tony Award nominee Kate Burton, National Board of Review winner and Independent Spirit Award nominee Ann Dowd, Sally Pressman, James Roday, Paul Adelstein, Matt Lauria, Shea Whigham, Adam Arkin, Skylar Astin, Seth Numrich, and Oscar- nominated and Independent Spirit Award-winning Dan Futterman.
In addition, literary clients include writer director Stephen Kay, writer director Joe Ahearne as well as Lauren Ann Miller who wrote and starred in the 2012 Sundance hit For A Good Time Call. Among PELA’s top managers are Mike Smith, Jen Weinbaum, Atil Singh and Liz York who recently joined PELA from Management 360 bringing with her clients Jordana Brewster, Dylan O’Brien among others.
The Gotham Group, established in 1993 by Goldsmith-Vein, reps a client roster of over 300 top writers, directors, publishers, authors, illustrators, animation talent, and comic book companies. Gotham controls more source material than any other entity in the entertainment industry. Among its clients are publishers Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Bloomsbury Walker US, Soho, Dark Horse Comics, and Arcana. Other clients include: Henry Selick, Danny Strong, Dave Eggers, Steve Buscemi, David Gordon Green, Zach Helm, Thor Freudenthal, Wentworth Miller, Emily Kapnek, Dan Simmons, Angus Wall, Burr Steers, Adam Cozad, Brian Percival, Nick Santora, Aardman Animations, Robert Nelson Jacobs, Mark Steven Johnson, Chris Murphy, Jay Chandrasekhar, Mark Andrus, Dan Lagana, Butch Hartman, Doug Tenapel, Colum McCann, Mike Jones, and Tony DiTerlizzi.
On the production side, The Gotham Group has a first-look deal at Sony Pictures Animation for fully animated and CGI/hybrid films, as well as a first-look deal in television with ABC Studios. The Gotham Group is currently in production on an untitled Elmore Leonard project based on his novel The Switch. Written and directed by Daniel Schechter, the film stars Jennifer Aniston, John Hawkes, yasiin bey (aka Mos Def), Tim Robbins, Isla Fisher, Will Forte and Mark Boone Jr. A May production start is planned for The Maze Runner (Twentieth Century Fox), based on the novel by New York Times bestselling author James Dashner.
Other upcoming Gotham producing projects include: Simon Bloom: The Gravity Keeper, to be directed by Gary Ross for Universal; The Devil You Know, to be produced with Shawn Levy for 20th Century Fox; Ghostopolis, based on client Doug TenNapel’s graphic novel; Big Brave Brian starring Dwayne Johnson; Taking Gotham with Olivier Megaton (Colombiana) attached to direct, and Kodachrome, written by Jonathan Tropper and set up at Fox.
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