EXCLUSIVE: After six years as a supervisor at Extra/Medavoy, Stephen Belden goes it alone, having launched his personal administration and manufacturing firm, Death Wish Entertainment.
“The dream,” Belden mentioned, “has all the time been to work with a core group of shoppers that I completely adore as artists and as human beings and to have the ability to produce initiatives with and for these shoppers. With this firm I get to concentrate on precisely that and I couldn’t be extra excited.”
Belden defined that the identify Loss of life Want is “a tongue-in-cheek nod to the truth that it’s more durable than ever to be working within the leisure business proper now,” underscoring on the similar time that he “couldn’t be extra optimistic about what the long run holds for the up and coming era of actors, writers, administrators, and producers that I work with.”
Moreover, he expressed his gratitude to these at his former firm. “The years I spent studying from Brian Medavoy and Erwin Extra have been extremely formative for me as a supervisor and as an individual,” he mentioned. “I’ll all the time don’t have anything however love and respect for them, the best way they do enterprise, and their good record of shoppers.”
Purchasers becoming a member of Belden at his new store embody Gavin Leatherwood (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, The Intercourse Lives of School Women), Blu Hunt (New Mutants, Sherlock & Daughter), Lovi Poe (Seasons, Dangerous Man), Russell Dennis Lewis (Godless, The Queen’s Gambit), Melanie Stone (Deadstream, V/H/S/99), Louie Chapman (The Dresden Solar), Tomi Ade (Hollyoaks), Ezana Alem (Snowfall), actor-filmmaker Chasen Parker (Everybody Is Doing Nice), Sophia Esperanza, Sophia Tatum (Riverdale, Samaritan), Brenna Monet, writer-musician duo Geordie Kieffer and Mitch Toler, author Ian Kieffer, and producer Montgomery Blencowe (Heist).
He’ll even be joined by his most up-to-date signing, writer-producer Kate Andrews, who produced It’s What’s Inside, the horror thriller which snagged the top sale of Sundance 2024 when Netflix bought worldwide rights for round $17 million, as we have been first to report.
Previous to his time at Extra/Medavoy, Belden was a supervisor at ATN Leisure. He started his leisure profession as an agent at Sovereign Expertise Group.
