8 - THE JOB MARKET (DB)
Executive Assistant, Production & Acquisitions for Focus Features
Read and screen materials and provide prompt creative feedback to the team. Assign script coverage to our Story Analysts and oversee our script coverage allocation system to track delivery and accuracy of their reports to ensure materials are covered in a timely manner.
When Renato finds out that the father who long ago abandoned him is dying, he travels to America only to discover he has a half-crazy half-brother, Asher, and the two of them are thrust into a road trip together, masterminded by their father.
The Oscar-nominated actor will also produce the adaptation of Kevin Wignall’s upcoming novel To Die in Vienna under his production company Nine Stories.
Freddie Makin, a civilian surveillance contractor in Vienna, has been watching a Chinese academic named Jiang Cheng for the past year. When Freddie interrupts a break-in at his apartment, the intruder escapes, only to return to try and kill him. Now Freddie has to figure out who is trying to kill him and why, all while hiding the past that he’s been running away from.
The storyline is being kept under wraps but will be set in the world of politics.
Josh McLaughlin is set to replace Jim Burke as President of Production at Focus Features, the Tracking Board has exclusively learned. Rather than hire an executive from outside the company, Focus decided to promote from within. 
While most of the Hollywood contingent at Sundance has already left Park City, there are still plenty of festival deals being made, chief among them one for Dee Rees’ acclaimed drama Mudbound, which is the hottest acquisition title left on the board.
A brand new — and appropriately timely — spec is hitting the market this week from scribe Patrick McConville. The political thriller Inauguration Day has already captured the attention of several producers and is moving into major territories.
The 2016 time-traveling romance graphic novel Patience by Daniel Clowes has been acquired by Focus Features for a big-screen adaptation. Clowes will adapt his own work for the film, which was originally published by Fantagraphics this past March.
