EXCLUSIVE: Robert Walak and Alisa Tager will probably be leaving their posts as Presidents of Film & Television at AC Studios, the unbiased movie and TV manufacturing studio that sits inside Anonymous Content, when their contracts are up in a few months.
Walak and Tager are anticipated to proceed producing initiatives for AC Studios by an association whose phrases are nonetheless being labored out.
There are not any particulars but concerning the duo’s alternative although I hear UCP veteran Garrett Kemble, who joined Anonymous Content as EVP of Development for AC Studios final summer time, reuniting with former UCP President Dawn Olmstead who’s now CEO of Anonymous Content, is poised for a much bigger position in gentle of Walak and Tager’s pending exit.
“Alisa and Robert are brilliant producers,” mentioned Anonymous Content CCO David Levine. “It has been a pleasure working with the two of them these past few years to help execute our vision for AC Studios. Their expertise and passion for great storytelling have been instrumental in helping to grow and expand AC Studios and we are looking forward to continuing to work with them to produce and create the premium content that Anonymous is known for.”
Former Focus Features President Walak and long-time producer Tager joined AC Studios in 2021, each coming from primarily movie background. For the previous two years, they’ve overseen the studio’s slate, which historically has skewed closely towards TV. Recently launched initiatives embrace sequence Shantaram starring Charlie Hunnam; season two of Random Acts of Flyness; Dickinson, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey starring Samuel L. Jackson in addition to the movie Swan Song starring Mahershala Ali.
The firm’s upcoming lineup includes characteristic Foe, starring Saoirse Ronan, Paul Mescal and Aaron Pierre; restricted sequence East of Eden starring Florence Pugh with Zoe Kazan set to adapt and Savant starring Jessica Chastain; sequence Time Bandits from Taika Waititi, starring Lisa Kudrow, Neuromancer; and In Cold Blood at Apple; and season 4 of True Detective starring Jodie Foster and Kali Reis at HBO.
“It’s been a genuine pleasure to work with Dawn, David, Alisa and the talented team at AC but it’s time to enter into a new alignment with Anonymous,” mentioned Walak. “I’m grateful for the opportunity and excited for the path ahead.”
Said Tager, “My goal is always to make great things with great people, and I have loved the opportunity to do this with the team at Anonymous Content.”
Walak is an business veteran who joined Focus in 2016 after arriving at Universal as Co-Managing Director of UPIP in 2015. During his Focus tenure, the studio’s movies garnered 28 Oscar nominations on titles akin to Loving, Darkest Hour, Phantom Thread, BlacKkKlansman and Harriet. He championed Downton Abbey’s film which grew to become the best grossing movie in Focus historical past, spawning a sequel.
Prior to Focus, Walak’s roles included Managing Director Europe/President Production, Acquisitions and Television at The Weinstein Co. and SVP, Acquisitions & Production at Alliance Films/Momentum Pictures.
Tager’s producing credit embrace Arthur Newman with Colin Firth and Emily Blunt; Guillermo Arriaga’s directorial debut, Burning Plain; Joss Whedon’s characteristic debut, Serenity; and Jean-Jacques Annaud’s Enemy At The Gates and Seven Years In Tibet.
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