Teton Ridge Entertainment

EXCLUSIVE: Jillian Share, who was just lately EOne‘s President of Production, has been named President of Teton Ridge Entertainment, a brand new Los Angeles-based impartial studio.

Teton Ridge’s mission is to convey audiences and companies collectively by means of media, leisure, life-style merchandise and experiences related to the good American West.

Under Share’s management, the leisure division will produce movies, tv collection, podcasts and different new media content material, each scripted and unscripted.

“I look forward to helping develop the many diverse stories within the western genre and bringing them to a new generation on a global basis,” stated Share. “There is incredible demand for these types of narratives which have the ability to entertain and inspire, as well as speak to who we are as a country.”

At EOne, Share led the movie division and shepherded a number of movies into manufacturing together with the 2x BAFTA nominated Viola Davis epic, The Woman King and the upcoming options Freaky Tales, from Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden and starring Pedro Pascal, Ben Mendelsohn, Jay Ellis, Dominque Thorne, and Normani; Dust Bunny, starring Sigourney Weaver and Mads Mikkelsen and Everything is Going to Be Great, starring Bryan Cranston and Allison Janney.

Prior to eOne, Share was EVP, Development and Production at David Heyman’s Heyday, throughout which she produced a number of initiatives, together with Apples Never Fall, a collection based mostly on Big Little Lies’ writer Liane Moriarty’s newest novel, which acquired a straight-to-series order from Peacock and can star Annette Bening and Sam Neill.

Before Heyday, Share was EVP of Christopher and Heather McQuarrie’s Invisible Ink the place she led the event of a slate of initiatives, together with the Tony Peckham-scripted thriller pilot The President Is Missing for Showtime, based mostly on the best-selling James Patterson and President Bill Clinton novel and starring David Oyelowo and Janet McTeer.

Share started her profession at Legendary Entertainment the place she labored her manner as much as SVP of Production. While serving to to construct Legendary, she served as an EP on the gothic horror movie Crimson Peak, directed by Guillermo Del Toro, and co-produced the $411M international grossing Pacific Rim and the Jackie Robinson biopic 42, amongst others.

Former Legendary Chairman and CEO and tech entrepreneur Thomas Tull is a backer with a number of different buyers in Teton Ridge. It’s considered one of many corporations Tull is concerned with it at this cut-off date.