“Big Gold Brick” producer Greg Lauritano launches the Black Magic banner

Exclusive: Greg Lauritano (large gold bricks) today announced the launch of Brooklyn-based production company Black Magic, also offering details on the next sheet.

Lauritano is an independent producer behind Brian Petzo’s directorial debut. large gold bricksStarring Andy Garcia, Emory Cohen, Megan Fox, Lucy Hale and Oscar Isaac, released with Samuel Goldwyn Films and Arclight Films earlier this year.

The new production company develops projects that include the film and stage adaptation of the book Englund Like never before, in which he recalls his friendship with Marlon Brando. Black Magic also chose Kelly Gardiner’s Goddess– A genre-inhibiting novel about an opera singer and fencer in France, adapted into a limited series with Veux Boulder and Clara McGregor at Deux Dames Entertainment.

“After nearly a decade in the industry, I am delighted to start my own company, where I can more freely utilize the strong relationships I have developed with incredibly talented artists and executives,” said Lauritano. “I’m very excited to live outside Brooklyn, focusing on the artistic side of film and using what I believe is a healthy distance from the commercial side of Hollywood.”

Lauritano is a post on the novel Kill Sherman OaksWith Kir Gilkrist and Lucy Hale. Andrew Durham Drama is also on the way fairytale country, which he produces with Sophia Coppola and many others. This film is based on the award-winning memoir of the same name by Alicia Abbott, who grew up with a single father (widowed poet and gay activist Steve Abbott) during a strong cultural scene in San Francisco in the 1970s and 1980s, which has led to the AIDS epidemic. Durham adapted the script for the film, starring Emilia Jones, Scout McNair, Cody Fern, Bella Murphy, Adam Lambert and Gina Davis.