David Stone: Last News

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American rights to writer/director Eytan Rockaway’s crime-drama Lansky starring Harvey Keitel and Sam Worthington. The film also stars AnnaSophia Robb, Minka Kelly, David James Elliott, David Cade and John Magaro. Vertical Entertainment is planning a theatrical day and date release on June 25, 2021.

EXCLUSIVE: TFC Management has signed writers-producers Kyle Long (Unsolved), Taylor Elmore (The Stand), Sabaah Folayan (Betty) and Alison McDonald (Your Honor). Launched last summer by senior TV lit agents Ben Jacobson and David Stone, TFC Management represents creators, showrunners, filmmakers and producers.

EXCLUSIVE: Rising Paradigm TV lit agent Ellie Klein is joining TFC Management, the company launched last summer by senior TV lit agents Ben Jacobson and David Stone which represents creators, showrunners, filmmakers and producers. Klein is the first manager hire by Jacobson and Stone.

EXCLUSIVE: After adapting Lin Manuel-Miranda’s In the Heights for Warner Bros, Jon M. Chu has his sights set on adapting one of Broadway’s biggest hits. Sources tell Deadline that Chu will direct Universal’s Wicked, the feature-film adaptation of the record-breaking musical phenomenon that is in its 17th smash-hit year on Broadway.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Four months after TV lit agents David Stone, a partner at WME, and Ben Jacobson, a partner at UTA, left their respective agencies to launch The Framework Collective, the management company has solidified their roster of clients, I have learned. It ranges from established producers, creators and showrunners to next generation voices, a number of whom were former clients of Stone and Jacobson on the agency side.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Respected TV lit agents David Stone, a partner at WME, and Ben Jacobson, a partner at UTA, are leaving their respective agencies to launch a management company together, The Framework Collective.Stone and Jacobson’s careers had been on parallel tracks since they started in the mailroom at UTA — one week apart from one another — in 2005.  They became fast friends, then competitors for many years until they recently decided to partner up, bringing together a combined 30 years of experience.Stone’s exit from WME and Jacobson’s from UTA were both amicable; I hear both agents had time left on their contracts but were released so their can pursue their vision and start the new venture.

The COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund set up at long-running charitable organization Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS to provide financial relief and services for entertainment professionals impacted by the coronavirus pandemic and work shutdown has received a boost from some of the sector's most successful producers. Marc Platt, Scott Rudin, Jeffrey Seller, David Stone, Daryl Roth, Jordan Roth and Bill Damaschke are among a group of more than 20 producers who have come together with a pledge to match every donation, dollar for dollar, up to $1 million.