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EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-nominated shaper Nicholas Weinstock (Severance, Escape astatine Dannemora) has signed a first-look woody pinch Prologue Entertainment, nan independent movie and tv workplace down Netflix thrillers Zero Day and A House of Dynamite, among others.
Under nan deal, Weinstock and his Sweetheart Entertainment shingle, co-founded pinch producing partner Andrea Bucko (Longlegs, Dead Man’s Wire, Paper Tiger), will create and nutrient tv bid crossed Prologue’s increasing slate of scripted stories inspired by real-life characters and events.
Weinstock has developed and produced movies that person earned much than half a cardinal dollars astatine nan container agency and tv bid that person been nominated for 53 Emmy Awards. In nan past respective years, he has go a leader successful world co-productions, producing films and bid by section creators successful countries astir nan world for world audiences. Most recently, his movie Clarissa — produced successful Nigeria and starring Sophie Okonedo, David Oyelowo, and Ayo Edebiri — premiered astatine nan Cannes Film Festival and will beryllium distributed worldwide by Neon.
His films see Bridesmaids, Alex Strangelove, The Package, Dinner successful America, Queenpins and Thelma. Television bid he has produced see Escape astatine Dannemora for Showtime, nan four-season bid In nan Dark for nan CW, nan Apple TV+ bid High Desert, and nan Emmy-winning Apple TV bid Severance, which he continues to Executive Produce.
Weinstock began his profession arsenic an editor astatine Random House successful New York, is nan writer of 3 books, and served arsenic nan imaginative caput of Apatow Productions, SVP of Chernin Entertainment, and imaginative caput of Red Hour Films. He is now producing films and bid crossed nan U.S., Europe, nan UK, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, nan Middle East, Southeast Asia and beyond. He is besides nan laminitis of Craft Services: a first-of-its-kind support web and task incubator presently supporting much than 1,000 emerging movie and TV writers astir nan globe. Weinstock is represented by CAA.
Founded successful 2024 by Lloyd Braun, Sarah Bremner, and Noah Oppenheim, and backed by Jeff Zucker and RedBird Capital Partners, Prologue Entertainment quickly earned a estimation for producing premium, compelling dramas rooted successful existent people, history, and reported nonfiction––including Netflix thrillers Zero Day and A House of Dynamite. Prologue is presently building retired a divers slate of scripted stories based connected what’s happening successful nan world and what could travel next. The institution precocious announced first look agreements for movie and bid pinch The Atlantic and best-selling espionage writer David McCloskey.
