Tom McCarthy’s Slow Pony Strikes First-Look Film Deal With Concordia
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Academy Award-winning filmmaker Tom McCarthy’s production company Slow Pony has inked an exclusive first-look film deal with Concordia Studio, the talent-first studio whose most recent production, Still: A Michael J.
Fox Movie, world premiered to critical acclaim at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and will bow on Apple TV+ on May 12th. McCarthy comes to the deal after numerous successful collaborations with Concordia co-founder Jonathan King, who exec produced his Best Picture Oscar winner Spotlight during his tenure as President of Narrative Film and Television at Participant, also producing his recent Cannes-premiering Matt Damon starrer Stillwater for Focus Features, as well as his 2007 drama The Visitor, which brought Richard Jenkins his first Oscar nom, in the category of Best Actor.
The filmmaker will look to build out a diverse slate of features under the Concordia deal, all of which will be in the narrative space, helping the studio to expand in that area after launching its work in scripted during the pandemic. “I have a long history of collaborating with Jonathan King.
I trust his brain and his taste implicitly,” McCarthy said in a statement to Deadline. “We are thrilled to be furthering our creative partnership along with Concordia.
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