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Two-time Oscar-nominated shaper Stacey Sher, who’s down much than 2 twelve critically acclaimed films specified arsenic Pulp Fiction, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight and Erin Brockovich, has signed a first-look woody pinch MGM Television. Under nan pact, Sher will create and nutrient tv bid for nan workplace via her Shiny Penny Productions.
Sher’s assemblage of activity has collectively grossed astir $2.7 cardinal astatine nan world container office. In summation to nan films mentioned above, Sher’s credits besides see Out of Sight, Contagion, Garden State, Reality Bites, Get Shorty, Man connected nan Moon, Gattaca, and Respect. Her activity successful tv includes executive producing nan Emmy-nominated constricted series Mrs. America, arsenic good arsenic bid specified as Into nan Badlands, Sweet/Vicious, Reno 911, and Skylanders Academy.
“Stacey is a visionary shaper pinch an bonzer way grounds of bringing bold, culturally resonant stories to life crossed movie and television,” said Lindsay Sloane, Head of MGM Television. “Her expertise to champion unique voices and present unforgettable storytelling has shaped immoderate of nan astir iconic projects of nan past 3 decades. We’re thrilled to partner pinch her and look guardant to nan unthinkable stories we’ll create together for our world audience.”
Most recently, Sher produced nan A24 thriller Heretic, starring Hugh Grant, which earned aggregate grant nominations, and is presently producing nan upcoming Amazon MGM Studios film Verity, directed by Michael Showalter and starring Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, and Josh Hartnett. As Deadline exclusively reported, she’s besides group to nutrient via her Shiny Penny FernGully as a live-action movie based connected nan beloved 1992 animated FernGully: The Last Rainforest.
Katie Aquino serves arsenic Creative Executive of Film and Television at Sher’s Shiny Penny. Most recently, Aquino was an subordinate shaper on Heretic and nan upcoming Amazon MGM Studios film Verity, and will executive nutrient Amazon MGM Studios’ reimagining of Baby Boom. A postgraduate of USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, she began her profession astatine Creative Artists Agency successful nan tv talent section earlier joining Shiny Penny successful 2021.
In summation to her movie and tv work, Sher served arsenic an executive shaper connected nan Academy Award–winning documentary short Period. End of Sentence., which led to nan creation of The Pad Project, a nonprofit dedicated to menstrual equity worldwide. She presently serves connected nan organization’s committee of directors.
Sher has been recognized by nan ACLU for her committedness to socially impactful storytelling, and received nan Humanitas Prize for Freedom Writers, and nan Christopher Award for World Trade Center. In 2024, she was awarded nan Premio Raimondo Rezzonico astatine nan Locarno Film Festival, honoring her contributions to world movie production.
She is simply a personnel of nan Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, BAFTA, nan Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and nan Producers Guild of America.
