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Alex Kurtzman
Focus Features president of production Jen Brody will be joining Secret Hideout
Universal Pictures has signed a three-year production agreement with Alex Kurtzman's newly-formed company Secret Hideout, the studio announced Tuesday.
Kurtzman's company will focus on developing filmmaker-driven projects with an eye towards franchise and multi-quadrant films. The company will retain its current offices and expand into additional offices on the Universal lot.Kurtzman will be joined at Secret Hideout by current Focus Features president of production Jeb Brody and current president of K/O Paper Products Bobby Cohen, who will both serve as producers alongside Kurtzman.
Kurtzman is currently working with Chris Morgan on the re-launching of Universal's classic movie monster franchises. He'sdirecting the reboot of The Mummy slated for release in June 2016, and is also producing the fantasy adventure seriesDragonology, based on the children’s book series for Universal.
Kurtzman is also working with Roberto Orci on producing several projects including the adaptations of Anne Rice’s novels in The Vampire Chronicles series with Imagine Entertainment, both for Universal. He's repped by CAA and attorney Michael Gendler.
Brody joins Secret Hideout after three years at Focus Features, where he currently serves as president of production. At Focus, he was involved in the films Dallas Buyers Club, Anna Karenina, The Place Beyond the Pines and Bad Words. Brody will continue to oversee production for Universal Pictures and Focus Features’ Fifty Shades of Grey.
Cohen served as president of K/O Paper Products, and produced Now You See Me, People Like Us andCowboys & Aliens. He previously president of Red Wagon Entertainment where he worked as an executive producer on such films as Jarhead and Memoirs of a Geisha.
Kim Rosen will also join Secret Hideout as the head of digital and interactive. Rosen previously worked with Kurtzman as a development executive for K/O Paper Products for the last three years.
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