BUZZ A werewolf story with an indie sensibility,
Silver is the festival s genre standout. Described as a traditional Gothic horror, the title is set in the 1800s in a remote country village where a man is sent to investigate wild animal attacks. John and the Hole
STARS Charlie Shotwell, Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Ehle, and Taissa Farmiga
BUZZ The psychological thriller, which was an official Cannes selection, comes from one of the writers behind
Birdman (Nicolas Giácobone), and centers on a kid who holds his family captive in a hole he found in the ground. Mass
STARS Jason Isaacs, Ann Dowd, Martha Plimpton, Reed Birney
Brandis remembers attending the March premiere of Niki Caro’s
Mulan at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles and then “everything shut down on the next Monday,” she says.
Mulan was pulled from its March 27 release date and again from a July opening, at which point it became clear that audiences wouldn’t be returning to theaters anytime soon. That’s when Brandis, who heads the studios’ business affairs, got to work redrawing deals that would allow
Mulan to have a premium debut on Disney+ in September before being available to all subscribers in December. She similarly ushered the filmed staged production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s
Alter Kendrick & Baron
Despite major blows to touring and live performances, “business is booming” for Alter, a prolific dealmaker in the music publishing space. “We are in a golden era of music transaction, and I think that’s going to continue,” says Alter. This year she advised Reservoir Media Management in its acquisition of 16,000 copyrights from music publisher Shapiro Bernstein, as well as Primary Wave Music Publishing in its acquisition of various interests of the catalogs of Whitney Houston, Air Supply and Sublime.
This year I’m thankful for: Having an amazing team in our office. The majority of them happen to be women who despite everything that each of us has been handling and juggling in our personal lives, from literal newborns to college kids to grown children to parents to pets still have been super, super professional and pulling together as a team.