Former Miramax & WME Independent Execs Yvette Zhuang & Zach Glueck Launch Manifest Pictures

EXCLUSIVE: Yvette Zhuang and Zach Glueck , former sales executives at Miramax and WME Independent, respectively, are opening the doors to Manifest Pictures , a new international sales agency based in Los Angeles. The co-CEO’s are joined by former WME executive Cory Lynch as EVP Finance. Manifest will be launching their slate at the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin. Manifest is backed by notable production and financing company QC Entertainment and its principal financier Edward H. Hamm Jr. Additionally, Manifest has teamed with Gramercy Park Media to provide a pipeline of premium feature films in all stages of production and development for the Manifest sales slate. Gramercy Park is the film equity and full production company owned by Nathan Klingher, Ford Corbett, Mark Fasano and Joshua Harris, who alongside with his company The Peachtree Group has been instrumental in the indie cinema sphere. In just under five years, the teams at Gramercy Park and Peachtree have collectively bankrolled more than 50 films including The Surfer with Nicolas Cage which premiered at Cannes 2024, the upcoming Angelina Jolie-led crime thriller Sunny, and the Zac Efron-starrer Famous which is being distributed by A24. Manifest will also work with other third-party producers, financiers, and filmmakers to bring a further mix of titles from edgy genre fare to star-driven franchises. Watch on Deadline Zhuang and Glueck said, “We are lovers of storytelling first and foremost. We created this company to amplify the voices of great creatives and help them manifest their vision. We feel privileged to have Ted Hamm, Ray Mansfield and Sean McKittrick at QC backing us in this venture, and the team at Gramercy Park as our strategic partners. Together with them and our broader network of filmmakers and producers, we hope to offer a nimble and client-forward approach, bringing the kind of top-level films the marketplace needs.” Hamm and his partners at QC added: “Investing in Manifest was a logical next step in executing our vision of becoming a mini major studio. It’s important to maximize all revenue streams to facilitate growth, and the team at Manifest have a track record of doing just that for some of the most prolific filmmakers and companies that have operated in the indie space. Their reputation for being highly driven and great collaborators precedes them, and we look forward to working with them across a great number of our titles.” QC has produced over 35 films and series earning close to a billion dollars at the box office, as well as awards across the Oscars, BAFTAs, Golden Globes, AFI, and Critics Choice, with credits spanning from box office triumphs Get Out and Academy Award winner BlacKkKlansman , to streaming hit The Wrong Missy and the series Poacher which was acquired by Amazon. Further added Gramercy, “This is an exciting moment for Gramercy Park to form a strategic relationship with Manifest. They are a proven leadership team with broad experience ranging from global studios to indie startups and come armed with combined decades of...

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