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Joe Wiggins has joined Elevate Entertainment as the Co-Head of Development and Production. He will be working on Elevate’s current slate of scripted and unscripted projects alongside Co-Head of Development and Production Samantha Levenshus.
Jacki Weaver (Silver Linings Playbook) and Tony Shalhoub (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) will lead the cast of the upcoming feature film The Wonder Yard from writer Beth Curry. Lauren Miller Rogen (Like Father) is set to direct.
Elevate Entertainment will produce alongside LYLAS Pictures. Concourse Media has attached to finance and handle worldwide sales, repping domestic sales alongside CAA.
Elevate Entertainment, a management firm whose clients include Yellowstone co-creator Taylor Sheridan, is adding a podcast division.
The new unit, called Highwire, is set to launch with an initial slate of four unscripted podcasts. It will produce both unscripted and scripted podcasts featuring Elevate talent as well as unaffiliated guests spanning several global industries. Deadline is told that shows will center on A-list talent from the worlds of sports and business, as well as notables from film and television who will share never-before-told stories. Details of the initial slate will be announced at a future date as contract terms are finalized.
Ex footballer and Hollywood ‘hardman’ Vinnie Jones is to front a new series for discovery+; Vinnie Jones: The Wild Life (w/t).
The series will see Vinnie and his farming family “build, bond and banter as they look to the future of the estate, establishing new conservation methods and the reintroduction of species and building habitats to attract new wildlife.”