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Michael Sucsy To Direct ‘A’ Murder To Remember’ For Amazon MGM Studios
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios is developing A Murder to Remember, a feature adaptation of Brynn Kelly‘s Audible Original from Grey Gardens helmer Michael Sucsy.
A Murder is described as a razor-sharp romantic thriller that follows a Jane Austen-obsessed American art expert and a broke but charming British lord who awaken after a blackout-drunk night at a crumbling English abbey convinced they witnessed a murder. With no evidence of a crime and no one willing to believe them, the unlikely pair must uncover the truth before the killer silences them for good.
Kelly’s audiobook, described to Deadline as Knives Out meets Jane Austen, released in February 2024. Sucsy developed the project with Jackie Levine at Audible and Moritz Polter at Windlight Pictures before the package was set up at Amazon MGM. He’s directing from his own script and exec producing via his HungryDuck Productions, alongside Audible’s Rachel Ghiazza and Kelly. Audible’s Levine and Marshall Lewy are producing alongside Windlight Pictures’ Polter and Cosima Degler.
Sucsy is best known for originating, co-writing, producing and directing Grey Gardens, an HBO drama starring Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange that received 17 Emmy nominations and won six, including Outstanding Made for Television Movie. The TV movie also picked up a Golden Globe, with Lange winning an Emmy, and Barrymore winning both a Globe and a SAG Award for her performance.
Following Grey Gardens, Sucsy went on to direct Sony’s romantic drama The Vow, starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum, which grossed $196 million worldwide against a $30 million budget, followed by MGM’s Every Day, based on David Levithan’s bestselling novel. He also directed on Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why and is repped by Paradigm, Anonymous Content, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.
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The new Skydance has unveiled its board of directors, effective immediately, led by chairman and CEO David Ellison and including newcomers Laurene Powell Jobs, founder and president of Emerson Collective, and Bobby Kotick, founder and former CEO of Activision.
They will service as independent directors.
Co-CEO Ynon Kreiz, who joined Skydance last week, also has a seat.
Powell Jobs is highly influential leader in business and philanthropy and committed investor in journalism and media. Her nonprofit Emerson Collective investments include majority stakes in The Atlantic and Anonymous Content.
Kotick served as CEO of Activision for 32 years, building it into one of the world’s most successful video game companies before selling Activision Blizzard to Microsoft for $68.7 billion.
Former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair will join as a Board Advisor. Blair, who will be acting in a personal capacity, is Executive Chairman of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, a not-for-profit that helps leaders govern in the age of AI. Paramount said his global leadership experience and commitment to innovation position him as an invaluable advisor in shaping Skydance’s strategic priorities.
The other directors are continuing on from the board of Paramount, which was renamed Skydance this morning after closing its merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.
The full Skydance board:
David Ellison, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Skydance
Barbara Byrne, Former Vice Chairman of Barclays PLC (Independent Director)
Andy Campion, Chairman and CEO of Unrivaled Sports (Independent Director)
Gerry Cardinale, Founder, Managing Partner, and Chief Investment Officer, RedBird Capital Partners
Safra A. Catz, Executive Vice Chair and Former CEO, Oracle Corporation
Andy Gordon, President of Skydance
Justin G. Hamill, Managing Director and Chief Legal Officer, Silver Lake (Independent Director)
Lauren Powell Jobs, Founder and President, Emerson Collective (Independent Director)
Bobby Kotick, Founder and former CEO of Activision (Independent Director)
Ynon Kreiz, Co-Chief Executive Officer of Skydance
Sherry Lansing, Former Chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures (Independent Director)
Paul Marinelli, President, Lawrence Investments, LLC
John L. Thornton, Chairman of RedBird Capital Partners
More to come
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The new Skydance has unveiled its board of directors, effective immediately, led by chairman and CEO David Ellison and including newcomers Laurene Powell Jobs, founder and president of Emerson Collective, and Bobby Kotick, founder and former CEO of Activision.
They will service as independent directors.
Co-CEO Ynon Kreiz, who joined Skydance last week, also has a seat.
Powell Jobs is highly influential leader in business and philanthropy and committed investor in journalism and media. Her nonprofit Emerson Collective investments include majority stakes in The Atlantic and Anonymous Content.
Kotick served as CEO of Activision for 32 years, building it into one of the world’s most successful video game companies before selling Activision Blizzard to Microsoft for $68.7 billion.
Former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair will join as a Board Advisor. Blair, who will be acting in a personal capacity, is Executive Chairman of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, a not-for-profit that helps leaders govern in the age of AI. Paramount said his global leadership experience and commitment to innovation position him as an invaluable advisor in shaping Skydance’s strategic priorities.
The other directors are continuing on from the board of Paramount, which was renamed Skydance this morning after closing its merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.
The full Skydance board:
David Ellison, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Skydance
Barbara Byrne, Former Vice Chairman of Barclays PLC (Independent Director)
Andy Campion, Chairman and CEO of Unrivaled Sports (Independent Director)
Gerry Cardinale, Founder, Managing Partner, and Chief Investment Officer, RedBird Capital Partners
Safra A. Catz, Executive Vice Chair and Former CEO, Oracle Corporation
Andy Gordon, President of Skydance
Justin G. Hamill, Managing Director and Chief Legal Officer, Silver Lake (Independent Director)
Lauren Powell Jobs, Founder and President, Emerson Collective (Independent Director)
Bobby Kotick, Founder and former CEO of Activision (Independent Director)
Ynon Kreiz, Co-Chief Executive Officer of Skydance
Sherry Lansing, Former Chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures (Independent Director)
Paul Marinelli, President, Lawrence Investments, LLC
John L. Thornton, Chairman of RedBird Capital Partners
More to come
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President Donald Trump commented on Skydance‘s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, completed on Tuesday, by apparently showering praised on its CEO Larry Ellison and his father Larry.
“It’s going to be a great company,” Trump told reporters when asked about the deal. “They’re terrific people, and it’s going to be a great company.”
Trump’s ties to the Ellisons was an ongoing point of interest in the saga of the $110 billion merger.
Some Democrats contended that the Justice Department greenlit the deal for political reasons, while warning that the Ellisons would steer CNN news coverage in a direction friendlier for the president. When Netflix and Paramount were vying for Warner Bros., Trump had said that he would be involved in the regulatory approval process, before later indicating that he would not.
Trump and the elder Ellison are longtime allies; in March, Trump put him on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology with other tech-forward execs including Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
David Ellison, meanwhile, attended the president’s State of the Union address as a guest of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). Ellison held a dinner in honor of the Trump White House and the network’s correspondents in advance of last spring’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and the Skydance CEO was a guest of the recent White House State Dinner for China’s President Xi Jinping.
On Tuesday, the first day of the new company, Ellison told a town hall that CNN would have “complete editorial independence,” and, in a conversation with Anderson Cooper, said that he would shield the network from Trump’s interference and criticism. He also said that he supported CNN’s challenge of Trump’s ban on the outlet from the White House grounds.
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Skydance Adds Laurene Powell Jobs, Bobby Kotick To Board Of Directors
Skydance Adds Laurene Powell Jobs, Bobby Kotick To Board Of Directors
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