EXCLUSIVE UPDATE 4.17am PT, July 2: We’ve obtained extra particulars on Jodi Matterson‘s new indie, Silent Fireworks.
The indie has developed partnerships with a pair of execs that Australian exec Matterson labored with at former firm Made Up Tales, and one other with a key exec behind children collection Bluey. Moreover, we hear Matterson has raised a capital fund on the financing facet.
Matterson will work with Wolf Like Me author, creator and director Abe Forsythe and Glendyn Ivin, who directed all seven episodes of Prime Video drama collection The Misplaced Flowers of Alice Hart. It is usually in improvement on initiatives with Libbie Doherty, who’s an government producer of Bluey and ex-Head of Kids and Household at Australian pubcaster the ABC.
Forsythe is an actor, producer and director whose credit embrace 2019 horror comedy Little Monsters, which starred Lupita Nyong’o and Josh Gad. Extra not too long ago, he created and wrote Stan and Peacock comedy-drama Wolf Like Me, which additionally starred Gad, together with Isla Fisher.
Ivin gained a Brief Movie Palme D’Or on the 2005 Cannes Movie Competition and extra not too long ago directed the Made Up Tales movie Penguin Bloom, together with episodes of quite a few TV collection.
Doherty exited the ABC after a decade, throughout which period she oversaw the pubcaster’s mega-hit Bluey. She additionally has credit for the likes of 2013’s Nowhere Boys.
PREVIOUSLY, 1.23am PT, July 2: Jodi Matterson has left Made Up Tales, the Australian manufacturing home she ran with Bruna Papandrea and Steve Hutensky, to launch her personal enterprise.
Matterson is organising a enterprise known as Silent Firework, which can function out of Australia. “I’m so excited to be taking up the problem to proceed to inform daring, entertaining tales with collaborators previous and new,” she stated. “Made Up Tales has been such an unlimited a part of my life, and I’m immensely pleased with the work that we’ve got made collectively as an organization.”
Additional element on Silent Firework isn’t but forthcoming, however her is CEO and producer of the Sydney-based firm. It has been registered on the Australian Securities & Investments Fee since April.
Matterson had labored with Papandrea and Hutensky for seven years, throughout which period they teamed for TV collection and movies equivalent to Wolf Like Me, 9 Excellent Strangers season one, The Misplaced Flowers of Alice Hart, Strife season one, The Dry and Penguin Bloom. Principal pictures on 9 Excellent Strangers season two has simply wrapped, whereas The Final Anniversary is in publish. Pre-production on Strife season two has begun.
Matterson had joined Made Up Tales as Managing Director, Australia, in 2017 quickly after she tried to safe the rights to Jane Harper’s novel The Dry and discovered Papandrea had crushed her to them. She introduced Little Monsters along with her, which grew to become the corporate’s first movie.
Made Up Tales started life in LA, however Matterson’s addition gave it a foothold in Papandrea’s naive Australia, the place it has gone on to make the likes of Strife and The Final Anniversary.
Made Up Tales co-founders Papandrea and Hutensky, stated a press release: “We’re so grateful for the terrific partnership with Jodi during the last seven years. Jodi was integral in establishing Made Up Tales in Australia as we grew from our starting in Los Angeles to now working throughout the US, Australia and the UK. We want her the very best within the subsequent chapter of her profession.”
Her exit comes amid a scorching streak for Made Up Tales, which presently has in publish The Final Anniversary, the Australian collection for streamer Binge that marks a modern collaboration with Kidman and Per Saari’s Blossom Movies and Fifth Season, and in pre-production a second season of Australia journal drama Strife. Principal pictures on 9 Excellent Strangers season two has simply wrapped, we hear. In March, we revealed the producer had bought an untitled thriller package deal written by Natalie Krinsky, starring and produced by Kim Kardashian, and reported Peacock had picked up restricted collection The Good Daughter, starring Jessica Biel. It is usually creating Fiona McIntosh’s novel The Peal Thief right into a characteristic movie.
Final 12 months, the corporate put itself up on the market, however in a current interview with Deadline, Papandrea stated it was now not in search of outdoors funding. Made Up Tales has workplaces in LA, Sydney and London.
