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EXCLUSIVE: Scott Budnick’s 1Community has hired Thomas Adam arsenic Director of Development for Features. He joins Maya Jackson who is Director of Television Development.
Both execs will study to nan movie and TV accumulation company’s Head of Content Ameet Shukla.
Shukla said, “1Community was founded connected a bold premise — that wide commercialized intermezo is 1 of nan astir powerful devices for societal change. Maya and Thomas exemplify nan sensation and imaginative imagination needed to genuinely push that activity further. That vision, mixed pinch a unsocial oculus trained connected stories that are culturally urgent pinch world appeal, distinctly suit some for their roles and we’re excited for each that’s ahead.”
Adam arrives from MRC, wherever he spent 7 years rising from adjunct to Director of Development for Film. During his clip there, he supported a slate spanning some established and emerging filmmakers, moving connected titles including Knives Out for Lionsgate, Oscar winner American Fiction for Amazon/MGM/Orion, Fair Play for Netflix, Saltburn for Amazon/MGM and G20 for Amazon, arsenic good arsenic nan upcoming Eloise for Netflix. He besides served arsenic lead imaginative executive on All of You for Apple TV+, and worked connected a number of forthcoming projects including Let’s Have Kids! starring Karen Gillan and Zoë Chao, Good People Bad Things starring Issa Rae, The Gallerist starring Natalie Portman and Jenna Ortega, which premiered astatine nan 2026 Sundance Film Festival, and Unabomber at Netflix starring Russell Crowe, Shailene Woodley and Jacob Tremblay. Prior to MRC, Adam held roles astatine Entertainment 360 and began his profession successful nan Media Finance Division astatine CAA.
Jackson, who leads tv improvement astatine 1Community, is overseeing a increasing slate of creator-driven projects pinch an accent connected bold, socially applicable storytelling. She is simply a postgraduate of USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, held roles astatine CAA, Freeform and Reléve Entertainment earlier joining MRC, wherever she served arsenic Manager successful TV Development. There, she worked crossed projects including The Great (Hulu) and Time Bandits (Apple TV+), while managing a wide improvement slate.
1Community’s caller credits see nan Susanna Fogel’s comedic biopic, Winner, which debuted astatine nan Sundance Film Festival. In addition, nan institution produced 2 Broadway plays, Selina Fillinger’s POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying To Keep Him Alive and nan revival of Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When nan Rainbow is Enuf collectively earning 10 Tony nominations successful nan aforesaid year. The company’s biggest occurrence to day is Stephen Chbosky’s Nonnas which topped world charts for 5 weeks consecutive and earned nominations astatine nan Emmys, nan Critic Choice Awards, and nan Producer Guild Awards, and a triumph astatine nan Director Guild Awards successful nan class of Outstanding Directorial Achievement successful Movies for Television.
Budnick is nan EP of The Hangover franchise, and nan Michael B. Jordan ineligible drama, Just Mercy, arsenic good arsenic War Dogs starring Jonah Hill, Miles Teller and Ana de Armas.
