Hot Sheet April - June2024

 

News

Martinos Aristidou '05 was nominated for a 2024 Daytime Emmy Award in the Single-Camera Editing category for Searching for Soul Food (Hulu).

Nicolaas Bertelsen '11 produced two films that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival titled Bang Bang and McVeigh.

Sabrina Brennan '18 was selected as one of Austin Film Festival's and MovieMaker's list of 2024 Screenwriters To Watch.

Trey Callaway '89 has signed with Independent Artist Group and Echo Lake Entertainment. He, along with Ron Howard, served as guest lecturers for The Singapore Film Commission and the Taiwan Creative Content Agency's EMERGE film development program in April.

Steven Caple Jr. '14 is set to direct and serve as executive producer for Netflix's upcoming series Man on Fire.

Justin Chang '04 (Annenberg) won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in criticism for his work as a film critic for the Los Angeles Times.

Jon M. Chu '03 will adapt his film Crazy Rich Asians as a Broadway musical.

Teddy Dief '12 directed the interactive TV series/video game We Are OFK, which won a 2024 Peabody Award.

Joshua Erkman '01's feature debut, A Desert, was launched for world sales by Yellow Veil Pictures ahead of its Tribeca Film Festival premiere in June.

Mahnoor Euceph '21, Nate Gualtieri '17, and Yoo Lee '23 were selected for the inaugural Proof of Concept Accelerator program created by Cate Blanchett, Dr. Stacy L. Smith, and Coco Francini '10. The program had over 1200 applicants and is designed to address long-standing gaps in the inclusion of women, trans, and nonbinary people in film.

Gordon Shoemaker Foxwood '13 was selected as one of Austin Film Festival's and MovieMaker's list of 2024 Screenwriters To Watch.

Alfred Gough '94 and Miles Millar '94 have signed a first-look deal with Sony Pictures to develop films through the duo's Millar Gough Ink banner.

Jeannette Hill '87 (SCA/Marshall) is the head of business and legal affairs at Alcon Entertainment. She handled all the business and legal work for the 2024 animated motion picture, The Garfield Movie.

Ron Howard presented his documentary Jim Henson: Idea Man in the Cannes Classic section of the Cannes Film Festival.

Rian Johnson '96 will write and direct the upcoming installment of the Knives Out franchise, Wake Up Dead Man, which is set to release on Netflix globally in 2025.

Aaron Kaplan '90 (Marshall) will serve as executive producer of new 2024-25 midseason CBS drama, Watson.

Aryan Khan '20 will make his feature directorial debut with the web series Stardom.

George Lucas '66 received the Honorary Palme d'Or during the closing ceremony of the 77th Cannes Film Festival.

Anthony Mandler '96 is set to direct the upcoming sci-fi thriller Head Games, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Henry Golding. Principal photography is scheduled to begin in October.

Bill McGoldrick '97 (Annenberg) will executive produce Amazon Freevee's upcoming medical procedural, which is an Untitled Alternative Medical Drama following doctors that utilize non-traditional approaches to solve unique cases.

Gina Lucita Monreal '08 will serve as executive producer and co-showrunner of new 2024-25 CBS drama, NCIS: Origins.

Paramount Pictures is partnering with producer Neal H. Moritz '85 to reboot the Scary Movie franchise, going into production in the fall of 2024.

Kari Neumeyer '97 produced Fish War, a documentary film that premiered at the 2024 Seattle International Film Festival.

John Ottman '88 will direct a dramatic biopic based on the life of world-renowned Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, which he is developing with David Franco.

Shonda Rhimes '94 was honored at Variety's Power of Women event for her collaboration with the Debbie Allen Dance Academy.

Charles Roven is producing Amazon MGM Studios' upcoming thriller Mercy, with star Chris Pratt and director Timur Bekmambetov, to be released in August 2025.

Writer/Director/Producer Ethan Shaftel '02 won Best VR Works at the Annecy Film Festival for his work on Gargoyle Doyle.

Stacy Sher '85 is set to be honored at the Locarno Film Festival with its Raimondo Rezzonico Prize.

Lindsey Shockley '07 was promoted from Co-executive Producer to Executive producer on the upcoming season of Night Court.

Mireia Vilanova '20 was accepted into the 2024 Sundance Producers Lab that was held June 10th-22nd, 2024 in Wyoming.

Cookie Walukas '15, Kerry Furrh, and Olivia Mitchell '14 (Thornton) won Best Narrative Short Film for their short film Ripe! at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Jordan Weiss '15 has sold an NFL-themed romantic comedy to New Line Cinema.

Joe Woo Jr. '76 recently released his ebook and paperback memoir Life's Abyss Then You Dive about the making and post-production of The Abyss (1989).

Daphne Qin Wu '11 will serve as Director of Photography on Jennifer Zhang's sci-fi feature-length anthology, Trüebadour.

 

New Films in Release

Abigail

James Vanderbilt '99 (Producer)

Michael P. Shawver '12 (Editor)

Tripp Vinson '93 (Dornsife) (Producer)

Arcadian

Jared Underwood '90 (Marshall) (Executive Producer)

Atlas

Bob Ducsay (Editor)

Bad Boys: Ride or Die

Alexander Ludwig (SDA) (Cast)

The Beach Boys

Cassidy Hartmann '11 (Executive Producer)

The Bikeriders

Penny Lin '18 (Associate Producer)

Blood for Dust

Ryan Winterstern '11 (Producer)

Martin J. Barab '67 (Marshall) (Executive Producer)

Luke Taylor '11 (Thornton) (Executive Producer)

The Blue Angels

Sean M. Stuart '00 (Producer)

Break

Jason Phillips '18 (Co-Producer)

Breathe

Ruzanna Kegeyan '96 (Dornsife) (Executive Producer)

Cash Out

Luke Taylor '11 (Thornton) (Executive Producer)

Daddio

John Ira Palmer '17 (Production Executive)

Damaged

Koji Steven Sakai '05 (Dornsife) (Writer)

Luke Taylor '11 (Thornton) (Executive Producer)

The Exorcism

Ben Fast '08 (Producer)

Michael Perry '84 (SDA) (Production Designer)

Ezra

Carlos Rafael Rivera '10 (Composer)

The Fall Guy

Bridger Nielson '04 (2nd Unit Director of Photography)

The First Omen

Gracie Wheelan '11 (Executive Producer)

David S. Goyer '88 (Producer)

Fancy Dance

Charlotte Koh '02 (Executive Producer)

Forest Whitaker (Executive Producer)

Nina Yang Bongiovi '99 (Annenberg) (Producer)

Firebrand

Roseanne Flynn '13 (Writer/Executive Producer)

Flipside

Judd Apatow (Executive Producer)

The Garfield Movie

Steven P. Wegner '93 (Producer)

The Greatest Hits

Saira Haider '14 (Editor)

Hard Miles

R.J. Daniel Hanna '11 (Director/Writer)

Evan Schrodek '12 (Editor)

Hazard

Greg Gertmenian '08 (Marshall) (Executive Producer)

Hit Man

Connor Flanagan '12 (Co-Producer)

Humane

Scott Shooman '00 (Marshall) (Executive Producer)

Jim Henson: Idea Man

Ron Howard (Director)

Brian Grazer '74 (Producer)

June Zero

Jason Beck '00 (Executive Producer)

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Amanda Silver '89 (Writer/Producer)

Patrick Aison '03 (Writer)

Jason Reed '95 (Producer)

Brandon Jones '07 (Thornton) (Sound Designer)

Rick Jaffa '81 (Marshall) (Writer/Producer)

Little Empty Boxes

Matt Feige '13 (Dornsife) (Executive Producer)

Sydney Clarke (Keck) (Assistant Producer)

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

Jill Silfen '91 (Gould) (Executive Producer)

Not Another Church Movie

Michael Montgomery '09 (Line Producer)

Parachute

Luke Taylor '11 (Thornton) (Executive Producer)

The People's Joker

Riccardo Maddalosso '15 (Gould) (Executive Producer)

Poolman

Stacey Sher '97 (Producer)

Matthew Jensen '94 (Director of Photography)

Ian Gotler '02 (SDA) (Writer/Producer)

Prom Dates

Michael Glassman '16 (Marshall) (Executive Producer)

Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver

Eric Newman '96 (Producer)

Sasquatch Sunset

Ross Boucher '07 (Viterbi) (Executive Producer)

Jeff Hull '94 (Dornsife) (Executive Producer)

Sweet Dreams

Lucas Jarach '98 (Producer)

Ken O'Keefe '88 (Annenberg) (Editor)

Tarot

Spenser Cohen '08 (Director/Writer/Executive Producer)

Anna Halberg '08 (Director/Writer/Executive Producer)

Thelma

Chris Kaye '13 (Producer)

David Bolen '13 (Director of Photography)

Nick Chuba '14 (Thornton) (Composer)

Trigger Warning

Natasha Gerasimova '96 (Production Designer)

Marisol Roncali (Dornsife) (Casting Director)

Ultraman: Rising

Lisa M. Poole '88 (Producer)

Bret Marnell '89 (Editor)

Unfrosted

Kyle Mooney '07 (Cast)

Beau Bauman '01 (Producer)

Wildcat

Brian Tetsuro Ivie '13 (Executive Producer)

You Can't Run Forever

Parker Fenady '23 (Cast)

 

New Series in Release

Acapulco (Apple TV+)

Jason Shuman '96 (Executive Producer, Writer)

Jaime Eliezer Karas '94 (Dornsife) (Director)

The Acolyte (Disney+)

Hanelle M. Culpepper '94 (Annenberg) (Director)

Michael Abels '84 (Thornton) (Composer)

Alert: Missing Persons Unit, Season 2 (Fox)

Danielle Iman '18 (Writer) Carla Kettner '79 '83 (Writer) Brandon Sonnier '04 (Writer)

All American (The CW)

Micah Cyrus '08 (Co-Producer/Writer)

Beacon 23 (MGM+)

Michael Ouzas '21 (Writer)

James Middleton '89 (Executive Producer)

Kevin Jewison (Director of Photography)

Nick Nantell '03 (Dornsife) (Executive Producer)

The Bear, Season 3 (Hulu)

Hiro Murai '06 (Executive Producer)

The Big Door Prize (Apple TV+)

David Ellison (Executive Producer)

Nick Sena '07 (Thornton) (Composer)

Black Twitter: A People's History (Hulu)

Prentice Penny '95 (Director/Executive Producer)

Sarah Amos '05 (Annenberg) (Executive producer)

Bodkin (Netflix)

Nne Ebong '96 (SCA/Annenberg) (Executive Producer)

The Boys (Prime Video)

Eric Kripke '96 (Executive Producer/Writer/Director)

Ori Marmur '93 (Executive Producer)

Neal H. Moritz '85 (Executive Producer)

Bridgerton, Season 3 (Netflix)

Shonda Rhimes '94 (Executive Producer)

Azia Squire '15 (Writer)

A Brief History of the Future (PBS)

Sarah Aldrich '17 (SDA) (Co-Producer)

Camden (Hulu)

Jonathan Chinn '94 (Executive Producer)

The Challenge: All Stars (Paramount+)

Alex Rosenbloom '07 (Co-Executive Producer)

Irene Young '12 (Editor)

The Chi, Season 6 (Paramount+ with Showtime)

Rick Famuyiwa '96 (Executive producer)

Aaron Kaplan '90 (Marshall) (Executive producer)

The Circle (Netflix)

Quinn Saunders '05 (Director, Co-Executive Producer)

CMT Music Awards (CBS/Paramount+)

Trevor Stirlin Burk '05 (SDA) (Screens Producer)

Conan O'Brien Must Go (Max)

Emily Topper '05 (Director of Photography)

CSI: Vegas (CBS)

Alex Berry '19 (Associate Producer)

Dark Matter (Apple TV+)

Megan McDonnell '16 (Teleplay Writer/Supervising producer)

Dead Boy Detectives (Netflix)

Lee Toland Krieger '05 (Executive Producer/Director)

Richard Speight Jr. '92 (SDA) (Director)

Oscar Balderrama '05 (Dornsife) (Writer)

Kristin Layne Tucker '02 (Annenberg) (Writer)

Dora (Paramount+)

Rebecca B. Delgado '13 (Writer)

Jesenia Ruiz '16 (Writer)

Elsbeth (CBS)

Ron Underwood '74 (Director)

Zoe Marshall '15 (Writer)

Erica Shelton '98 (Writer/Executive Producer)

John Aronson '87 '89 (Director of Photography)

The Equalizer (CBS)

Andrew Marlowe '92 (Developer/Writer)

Vanessa Heron '22 (Story Editor)

The ExpressWay With Dule Hill (PBS)

Rachel Fleischer '02 (Archival Producer)

Fallout (Prime Video)

Athena Wickham '02 (Executive Producer)

Tara Shivkumar '18 (Associate Producer)

Zach Dunn '16 (Producer)

Alejandro Martínez '13 (Director of Photography)

Franklin (Apple TV+)

Kirk Ellis '83 (Writer/Executive Producer)

The GOAT (Prime Video/Freevee)

Audrey E. Smith '04 (Executive Producer)

Jackson Anderer '94 (Editor)

Isabel San Vargas '03 (Dornsife) (Executive Producer)

Goodbye Earth (Netflix)

Harrison Xu '15 (BCA) (Cast)

Good Times (Netflix)

Jonathan Goldberg '16 (Associate Producer)

The Great War (History)

Chet Fenster '97 (Annenberg) (Executive Producer)

Grimsburg (Fox)

Miles Wood '18 (Executive Story Editor)

Hacks, Season 3 (Max)

Aisha Imami Muharrar (Co-Executive Producer/Writer)

Adam Bricker '08 (Director of Photography)

Susan Vaill '00 (Editor)

Hollywood Con Queen (Apple TV+, all episodes)

Kick Chuba '14 (Thornton) (Composer)

Hotel Cocaine (MGM+)

Courtney Klopper '14 (Co-Producer)

Ben Wilkinson '17 (Editor)

How Disney Built America (History)

Sarah Nilsen '96 '03 (Cast)

Margaret Kerrison '07 (Cast)

Interview With the Vampire (AMC/AMC+)

Shane Munson ’20 (Writer)

Craig Zisk '86 (Director)

Yuka Shirasuna '04 (Editor)

John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in LA (Netflix)

Becca Kinskey '11 (Annenberg) (Supervising producer)

Jurassic World: Chaos Theory (Netflix)

Emily Horton '19 (Post-Production Coordinator)

Knuckles (Paramount+)

Neal Moritz '85 (Producer)

Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza (Paramount+)

Shannon Pence '10 (Annenberg) (Supervising Producer)

Loot (Apple TV+)

Vicky Luu '07 (Writer/Co-Executive Producer)

Lopez vs. Lopez (NBC)

G. Charles Wright '89 (Annenberg) (Casting Director)

A Man in Full (Netflix)

Regina King (Annenberg) (Director)

Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer (Hulu)

Abigail Fuller '08 (Director)

Ross Dinerstein '05 (Executive Producer)

Lesley Chilcott '89 (Marshall) (Executive Producer)

My Lady Jane (Prime Video)

Alyssa Lerner '17 (Writer/Story editor)

The Never Ever Meets (OWN)

Drew Tappon '95 (Annenberg) (Network Executive)

Orlando Bloom: To the Edge (Peacock)

Folmer Wiesinger '86 (Editor)

Our Living World (Netflix)

Shaun Wolfe '13 (Dornsife) (Director of Photography)

Outer Range (Prime Video)

Jon Paré '78 (Executive Producer)

Police 24/7 (The CW

Danielle Doscher '21 (Annenberg) (Editor)

Presumed Innocent (Apple TV+)

Greg Yaitanes (Director)

Pretty Little Liars: Summer School (Max)

Alyson Weaver Nicholas '05 '17 (SCA/Dornsife) (Staff Writer)

The Proof Is Out There: Military Mysteries (History)

Adam Hamer '11 (Director of Photography)

Ripley (Netflix)

Robert Elswit '75 (Director of Photography)

Garrett Basch (Dornsife) (Executive Producer)

Royal Rules of Ohio (Freeform, Hulu)

Vivian D. Payton '08 (Co-executive Producer)

Selling the O.C. (Netflix)

Cat Gensler '20 (Supervising sound editor)

Sight Unseen (The CW)

Amrita Kalsi '21 (Writer)

The Spiderwick Chronicles (Roku Channel)

Jeremy Bell '99 (Executive Producer)

Jasmyne Peck-Bailey '19 (Writer/Executive Story Editor)

Star Trek: Discovery, Season 5 (Paramount+)

Jon Dudkowski '00 (Editor)

Star Wars: Tales of the Empire (Disney+)

George Lucas '66 (Creator)

Sugar (Apple TV+)

Donald Joh '01 (Writer/Co-Executive Producer)

Stax: Soulsville USA (HBO)

Wesley Adams '13 (Annenberg) (Associate Producer)

The Sympathizer (HBO/Max)

Susan Downey '95 (Co-Executive Producer)

Sydney Coleman '19 (Associate Producer)

The Synanon Fix (HBO)

Lauren Berger '19 (Annenberg/SCA) (Associate Producer)

Nicole Moreno '20 (Associate Producer)

Tracker (CBS)

Amanda Mortlock '09 (Staff writer)

The Upshaws (Netflix)

Robbie Countryman '88 (Director)

Nicole Bilbrew '06 (Writer)

Chuck Ozeas '91 (Director of Photography)

Velma (Max)

Jessica Kumai Scott '08 (Co-Executive Producer)

Walker (The CW)

Aaron Carew '13 (Writer)

Brandon Willer '10 (Writer)

Bret VandenBos '10 (Writer)

Leslie Greif '81 (Dornsife) (Writer)

Albert S. Ruddy '54 (Architecture) (Writer)

We're Here (Max)

Duncan Thum '06 (Thornton) (Composer)

Samuel Ostroff '20 (Thornton) (Composer)

When Calls the Heart (Hallmark)

Jimmy Townsend '03 (Executive Producer)

Vince Balzano '12 (Associate Producer)

WondLa (Apple TV+)

David Ellison (Executive Producer)

Mallory Sparr '13 (Production Manager)

Sarah Hollis '08 (SDA) (Cast)

WWE: Next Gen (Roku Channel)

Matthew Mangs '05 (Editor)

Any omissions or errors on this list are unintentional, please reach out if your name is missing from a project, or if you have an upcoming credit or news item that you’d like shared in future Hot Sheets by emailing alumni@cinema.usc.edu. Thank you for your patience, Fight On!