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About
Rob Gallagher
and the team at Gallagher Literary |
Rob was most recently EVP for one of the biggest international distributors,
GAGA, and traveled the world to finance films and meet with
the heads of every studio, production company, and agency. During
Rob's tenure, Gaga experienced record years in boxoffice. Prior
to that, Rob served as a literary manager and Head of Literary
for Cyd LeVin & Associates, where he oversaw development
for Luke Perry's deal at Fox and represented Stan Lee (Marvel
Comics). He was Head of Literary for Messina-Baker, overseeing
development for and representing Tim Allen (HOME IMPROVEMENT), Drew Carey (THE DREW CAREY SHOW), Janeane
Garofalo (THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW), and others. He was an agent at Major Clients
Agency (MCA), which later changed it's name to Genesis and then
merged with Paradigm, and at APA, where Rob was promoted to Agent
in a record six months. Rob's first industry job was with Ivy
Entertainment (deal at Orion Studios), where he quickly rose
to Vice President of Acquisitions & Development.
Gallagher Literary is a film finance, distribution, and literary management
company where we work with a select list of talented and prolific
producers, screenwriters and directors.
Rob states: "We eagerly search for original and
high concept completed scripts to sell and produce. We pride
ourselves in our unorthodox 'guerilla' methods of finding material
beyond the reaches of traditional Hollywood channels. We've
done this primarily by using the internet and belonging to many
writing groups internationally in many countries. If we like
a concept enough and find the writer has the ability to fix
the script with our guidance, we will often help the writer
do just that, rather than simply passing as the typical manager or
agent does. We are looking for reasons to make films rather than looking for reasons to pass but this takes a full compliment of development executives and a considerable investment of our time.
Obviously we can only make this investment
on scripts with very marketable concepts.
Writers are invited to pitch their scripts to us via our website's pitch submission form and if we like the pitch enough, we will request the script. So far this method has been very successful and efficient and we have set up a high number of specs that we found via the internet.
We take pride in being an advocate for writers first and foremost, where as most producers, agents or managers are primarily concerned with grooming their relationships with the buyers. They will often sacrifice a writer's needs to this end. I witnessed this time and time again at the agencies where the charter is to book more and more deals and quickly move onto the next deal while spending little time with improving projects before going to market.
We spend a vast amount of time with our writers and work very
closely with them on their material exhaustively to get it in
the best possible shape before it is released to the marketplace.
We never slip scripts to producers for buddy
favors as most everyone does in this business, and we always
stand firm as a defender of our writers interests above all
else."
NEXT GO TO THE BELOW LINK TO READ ROB'S RESUME:
**READ ROB'S RESUME**
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