WTP Pictures, with bases of operation in L.A. and Detroit, has brought Kim Slowik aboard as its director of partnerships/executive producer. The addition of Slowik to the leadership team at WTP Pictures comes at a pivotal time as WTP continues to gain momentum with a recent rebrand from its We The People moniker. As director of partnerships, Slowik will play a crucial role in amplifying and supporting WTP Pictures’ roster of creatives and aiding the company’s propulsion into original content and documentary work.
Throughout her career, Slowik has paired her knack for agile problem solving and expertise of production with a commitment to developing talent and promoting diversity and inclusion in the industry. For the past two decades she has touched almost every aspect of production with previous roles including sales and marketing executive, music producer at Howling Music and post producer at Milagro Post. Starting as an agency producer at Doner, Leo Burnett, McCann, and Goodby, Silverstein, & Partners, she quickly rose up the ranks to executive producer at The Martin Agency. She has led award-winning brand campaigns and activations for the likes of Ford, Old Navy, DoorDash, Chevy, and more.
Susan Rued Anderson, WTP co-founder/executive producer, said, “Kim is that person in a room full of people that makes it a point to know everyone. She is curious, smart as hell, and incredibly strategic. Having worked at top agencies, she brings an insight to the creative and inherently understands what will be needed for the project. She recognizes talent and understands the necessity of uplifting and supporting underrepresented talent. As director of partnerships/EP at WTP, she is essential in helping us curate the WTP Pictures roster and working in liaison to agency producers and creatives.”
Slowik added, “Working alongside this team has already been so refreshing. It’s people who genuinely care about each other, united by their passion for creating something new and fresh. I’m proud to be a part of it.”
James Earl Jones, Lauded Actor and Voice of Darth Vader, Dies At 93
James Earl Jones, who overcame racial prejudice and a severe stutter to become a celebrated icon of stage and screen — eventually lending his deep, commanding voice to CNN, "The Lion King" and Darth Vader — has died. He was 93.
His agent, Barry McPherson, confirmed Jones died Monday morning at home in New York's Hudson Valley region. The cause was not immediately clear.
The pioneering Jones, who was one of the first African American actors in a continuing role on a daytime drama and worked deep into his 80s, won two Emmys, a Golden Globe, two Tony Awards, a Grammy, the National Medal of Arts, the Kennedy Center Honors and was given an honorary Oscar and a special Tony for lifetime achievement. In 2022, a Broadway theater was renamed in his honor.
He cut an elegant figure late in life, with a wry sense of humor and a ferocious work habit. In 2015, he arrived at rehearsals for a Broadway run of "The Gin Game" having already memorized the play and with notebooks filled with comments from the creative team. He said he was always in service of the work.
"The need to storytell has always been with us," he told The Associated Press then. "I think it first happened around campfires when the man came home and told his family he got the bear, the bear didn't get him."
Jones created such memorable film roles as the reclusive writer coaxed back into the spotlight in "Field of Dreams," the boxer Jack Johnson in the stage and screen hit "The Great White Hope," the writer Alex Haley in "Roots: The Next Generation" and a South African minister in "Cry, the Beloved Country."
He was also a sought-after voice actor, expressing the villainy of Darth Vader ("No, I am your father," commonly misremembered as "Luke, I am your father"), as... Read More