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Verve Talent & Literary

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last seen in coverage 8 days ago
13
Wire items · since Apr 25
4
Deal items
0
Tracked projects
3
Months active
5
Multi-source stories

What they buy · across 4 tracked deal items

50% of tracked dealflow (2/4) is option; 75% of classified deal mediums are film; 75% of staged deals sit early-funnel (in-development or greenlit).machine-derived from the deal record below — not an editorial mandate statement

Deal type
option 2
book adaptation 1
pitch sale 1
Reported stage
in development 2
in production 1
optioned 1
Medium
film 3
tv limited series 1

Slate

No project clusters currently meet the ≥3-item threshold from this entity's coverage (9 smaller clusters below that floor).

Key people · from coveragenames as they appear in sourced items; no contact data by design

Brian Duffield
Talent attached
3 items · 2 deals · in 23% of all Verve Talent & Literary coverage
Charlize Theron
Named in coverage
2 items · 0 deals · in 15% of all Verve Talent & Literary coverage
Scott Glassgold
Talent attached
2 items · 1 deals · in 15% of all Verve Talent & Literary coverage
Zach Cregger
Talent attached
2 items · 2 deals · in 15% of all Verve Talent & Literary coverage
Baltasar KormákurNamed in coverage1i · 0d
Taron EgertonNamed in coverage1i · 0d
Eric BanaNamed in coverage1i · 0d
Joe DanteNamed in coverage1i · 0d
Adam B. SteinNamed in coverage1i · 0d
Zach LipovskyNamed in coverage1i · 0d
Rob SavageNamed in coverage1i · 0d
Akela CooperNamed in coverage1i · 0d
Guy BusickNamed in coverage1i · 0d
Michael ClearNamed in coverage1i · 0d
Chris ColumbusNamed in coverage1i · 0d
Adam ScottNamed in coverage1i · 0d
AFFILIATED = APPEARS IN ≥15% OF ALL VERVE TALENT & LITERARY COVERAGE · OTHERS ARE COUNTERPARTIES ON SPECIFIC PROJECTS

Box office in coverage orbit · 1 tracked titlegrosses as reported — amber badge = released by another studio

Backrooms
latest: “$330 million worldwide” (worldwide) as reported in tracked coverage — not a comparable figure

Activity · by month

1
APR
7
MAY
5
JUL
WIRE ITEMSDEAL SHARE

Works with · top 8 of 25click to expand shared record

CounterpartyItemsDeals
Paramount Pictures 52
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Netflix 51
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Verve 42
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Universal Pictures 42
Brian Duffield 32
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A24 32
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Scott Glassgold 31
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Legendary Entertainment 31
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Deal record · 4 entriesamounts shown as reported — ScreamWire tracks deal flow, not comps

Jul 3 Zach Cregger and Brian Duffield Adapting Internet Horror Sensation 'Siren Head'
option @ in-development “multi-million-dollar”
with Warner Bros., Trevor Henderson, Zach Cregger, Brian Duffield, Verve Talent Agency
Phantasmagoria+4 src A+
Jul 2 After Backrooms, Hollywood Goes All-In On Siren Head
option @ optioned “low seven figures”
with Warner Bros., Trevor Henderson, Zach Cregger, Brian Duffield, Roy Lee
Cosmic Book News+5 src A+
May 23 'Holiday Inn': Zazove And Turner Sell Family Pitch To Sony (EXCLUSIVE)
pitch-sale @ in-development
with Sony Pictures, Ben Zazove, Evan Turner, Verve, Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment
Deadline B
May 7 ‘We Were Liars’ Season 2 Casts Young Versions of the Sinclairs as Show Travels Back to Summer of 1999
book-adaptation @ in-production
with Josh Dallas, Peyton List, Madison Wolfe, Costa D'Angelo, Parker Lapaine
Variety A

Recent mentions · 9 of 9

Methodology

Source. Assembled from ScreamWire's classified archive — 13 wire items (Apr 25 → Jul 19) matching Verve Talent & Literary, deduplicated by URL (0 cross-day re-sightings removed). Every entry links to the original reporting. Descriptive, never predictive.

Why no deal amounts. Only 0.7% of tracked deal items site-wide carry a reported figure — the trades rarely publish terms — so dollar amounts appear only as the source phrased them (e.g. “rich eight-figure deal”), never as comparable numbers. This is a deal-flow tracker, not a comps database.

Buyer/seller roles are captured on a minority of deal items today; role-based stats are suppressed until capture coverage improves.

Slate clusters coverage by project title; stage is the latest reported stage, never a projection. Amber “via” badges mark titles tracked within this entity's coverage orbit but released by another distributor. Grades are ScreamWire's editorial coverage grade — how strongly the wire covered the story — not a deal-quality score.

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