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EXCLUSIVE: Verve has signed Leanna Billings, laminitis and CEO of Billings Productions, for representation.
Billings is an executive shaper on Off Campus, Prime Video’s deed romanticist play based connected nan bestselling book bid by Elle Kennedy. Premiering successful May, nan show drew successful 36 cardinal viewers successful its first 12 days of streaming — scoring nan 3rd most-watched bid motorboat successful nan platform’s history — and earned an early Season 2 renewal pinch accumulation now underway successful Vancouver.
Billings optioned nan authorities connected nan bid successful 2021 and was nan driving unit down optioning Kennedy’s books, bringing Amazon to nan array to create nan adaptation. She exec produces alongside Louisa Levy, Gina Fattore, Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen and Neal Flaherty.
Billings holds adjustment authorities to a increasing slate of bestselling IP, including The Other Woman by Sandie Jones, a New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club pick, arsenic good arsenic Meghan Quinn’s Cane Brothers trilogy. She has secured shopping authorities to nan trilogy, completed nan screenplay adaptation, and already drawn liking from 2 awesome studios.
Billings is besides successful progressive improvement connected a number of her ain original projects arsenic a screenwriter crossed movie and television.
Verve besides reps Mika Abdalla, 1 of nan stars of Off Campus, who steps up to a lead domiciled successful Season 2.
