EXCLUSIVE: Teton Ridge Entertainment has employed Jen Gorton as EVP Production and Development.
Gorton is a part of the brand new crew that’s being assembled by President Jillian Share for the brand new studio which focuses on initiatives that commemorate and amplify tales of the American West.
Share’s crew additionally consists of Brandon Mattingly and Christina Poray, who’re VPs of Production and Development, and Madeleine Moore, Creative Executive.
Gorton will work with Share to supervise artistic improvement and manufacturing of their movie, tv and new media slates.
Gorton was most lately EVP of Film Production at eOne, the place she oversaw improvement and manufacturing in addition to negotiated worldwide distribution offers for movies together with The Starling (to Netflix) starring Melissa McCarthy and directed by Ted Melfi, horror prequel Orphan: First Kill (Paramount) and the Academy Award-nominated Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (Focus Features). She additionally oversaw that firm’s upcoming movies Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, starring Gerard Butler and Arthur the King, starring Mark Wahlberg and Simu Liu. She and Share labored collectively in producing the upcoming Freaky Tales, directed by Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, and starring Pedro Pascal, Jay Ellis, and Ben Mendelsohn and Everything’s Going to be Great, starring Bryan Cranston and Allison Janney. Prior to her stint at eOne,
Gorton served as EVP Production and Sales at Sierra/Affinity the place she labored on over 100 titles, together with the Academy Award-winning movies Whiplash, I, Tonya; Spotlight, and Manchester by the Sea in addition to Oscar nominees Hell or High Water, Molly’s Game, and Nightcrawler, and the field workplace hits Scary Stories to Tell within the Dark, produced by Guillermo del Toro and Atomic Blonde, starring and produced by Charlize Theron. She was the sixth worker to be employed at Sierra, thereby having had a hand in shaping the corporate as a Creative Executive in packaging and gross sales.
Mattingly was beforehand in drama improvement at ABC Entertainment and labored within the International Originals group at Netflix on collection for India and the Middle East. He bought his begin in scripted improvement at Freeform simply as that cable community was rebranding from its earlier incarnation as ABC Family.
Poray was beforehand at AfterShock Comics, the place she was targeted on adapting their library of IP comparable to Undone By Blood and A Calculated Man. In addition to initiatives for the U.S. market, she labored alongside Carrie Stein securing co-productions and local-language collection around the globe. Before AfterShock, Poray labored with Aaron Kaplan at Kapital Entertainment (producer of the hit collection A Million Little Things, Santa Clarita Diet and American Housewife). She bought her begin as an assistant at Circle of Confusion earlier than becoming a member of Skybound Entertainment.
Moore has labored with Share for a number of years, beginning as her assistant at Heyday, rising her tasks at eOne, and now becoming a member of Teton Ridge as Creative Executive.
Teton Ridge Entertainment will produce movies, tv collection, podcasts and new media, each scripted and unscripted. The firm is a division of Teton Ridge, the primary omnichannel firm comprised of a portfolio of manufacturers targeted on a number of sides of the American West which is led by newly appointed CEO, Deirdre Lester. Investors embrace Thomas Tull, Guggenheim Partners, Jim Breyer and the Lee Bass Family Office.