Traveling Picture Show Company, the L.A.-headquartered spot production house led by exec producer/partner John Noble, has secured independent firm MoButler Reps, headed by Maureen Butler, to handle the Midwest. MoButler Reps joins a Traveling Picture Show sales force consisting of Blush LA on the West Coast, Asprodites Reps in the Southwest, and Matchmaker Media on the East Coast, The Traveling Picture Show directorial roster includes Andrews Jenkins, Chris Woods, Jonathan Parkinson, Kevin Goetz, Enda McCallion, Jeremy Warshaw, Gus Black, David Fishel, Jay Buim, Ryan Bosworth, Barry Kimm, and Jim Matlosz….Chloe Sedelmaier has joined Bang Music in NY as director of business development. Most recently she was part of the sales team at Launch, the test commercial division of Charlex in NY. Sedelmaier will work directly with Bang’s Sara Iversen and founder Lyle Greenfield in developing strategic initiatives for the company not only in the area of commercial work but also in Bang’s audio post and music supervision for TV and film. This will include building a U.S. network for Bang’s new European division, which opens in October in Prague….Creative studio Leviathan is now repped on the East Coast by Rich Durkin and Ice Tea Productions, and on the West Coast by Claire & Company, which is headed by Claire Worch. Leviathan continues to be handled in the Midwest by Tracy Bernard….Production designer Carl Swanberg has joined colleen, the management company founded by Colleen Dolan Vinetz. Swanberg has worked for such brands as Jaguar, Levi’s, Land Rover, Sony PlayStation and Sprint…..Production designer Keith Cunningham has wrapped principal photography on River Road Entertainment’s Love & Mercy starring John Cusack, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Dano and Paul Giamatti. Cunningham is now available for spots and features via The Skouras Agency, Santa Monica….
Justin Baldoni Sues Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds For $400M As “It Ends With Us” Fight Continues
"It Ends With Us" actor and director Justin Baldoni has sued his co-star Blake Lively and her husband, "Deadpool" actor Ryan Reynolds, for defamation on Thursday in the latest step in a bitter legal battle surrounding the dark romantic drama.
Baldoni's suit seeks at least $400 million for damages that include lost future income. The lawsuit from Baldoni and production company Wayfarer Studios, which also names publicist Leslie Sloane as a defendant, comes about two weeks after Lively sued Baldoni and several others tied to the film, alleging harassment and a coordinated campaign to attack her reputation for coming forward about her treatment on the set.
That lawsuit came the same day that Baldoni sued the New York Times for libel, alleging the paper worked with Lively to smear him.
The new lawsuit filed in federal court in New York says the plaintiffs did not want to file the suit, but that Lively "has unequivocally left them with no choice, not only to set the record straight in response to Lively's accusations, but also to put the spotlight on the parts of Hollywood that they have dedicated their careers to being the antithesis of."
An email seeking comment from Sloane, whose PR company represents both Lively and Reynolds, was not immediately answered.
The two actors are also both represented by agency WME, which dropped Baldoni as a client after Lively filed a legal complaint that was a precursor to her lawsuit and the Times published its story on the fight surrounding the film.
The surprise hit film based on the novel by Colleen Hoover has made major waves in Hollywood and led to discussions of the treatment of female actors both on sets and in media.
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