Scott Free taps VPs, prod'n and development

Ridley and Tony Scott's Scott Free Prods. banner features several new utilizes and key promotions within the film division. Elishia Holmes and Adam Kassan have grew to become part of the business as VP's of production and development, while Maresa Pullman remains upped to V . p . of production. In addition, Amal Baggar remains upped to creative professional. All will account to Scott Free film prexy Michael Costigan. Holmes, who most recently offered as V . p . of development at GK Films, formerly offered as production professional at Warner Bros., where she done such films as "An Online Detective,Inch "The Dark Dark evening" and "Crazy, Stupid, Love," and was key in creating and shepherding "It of Eli." Right before her four years at WB, Holmes labored just like a story editor at Walter Parkes and Laurie Carl's junior shingle Parkes-MacDonald. Kassan joins Scott Free from Le Grisbi Prods., where he was partner alongside producer John Lesher. While at Le Grisbi, Kassan offered as professional producer on David Ayer's Mike Gyllenhaal-starrer "Finish of Watch." Kassan began his career at Miramax Films and formerly offered as V . p . of production at Vital, where he was connected with your projects as "You Will Notice Blood stream," "No Country for Old Males" and "The Exorcist.Inch Pullman started her career within the William Agency and contains been at Scott Free since 2005. She was promoted to director of development and production in 2007 and offered since the executive accountable for production on several photos including Mike Scott's "Thank you for going to the Rileys" and "Cyrus." Pullman is presently controlling Jordan Scott's approaching film "Peony," based on Lisa See's best-selling novel "Peony for one another.Inch Baggar grew to become part of Scott Free from CAA in 2007 as Ridley Scott's executive assistant. Throughout that time, she done "Prometheus," "Robin Hood," "Body of Lies" and "American Gangster." "There's an amazing team at Scott Free with this growing slate, it increased being time for Maresa, that's been instrumental inside our development and productions, and Amal, that has labored carefully on Ridley's productions, just to walk to their new roles to acknowledge and extra their exceptional work," mentioned Costigan. "We are thrilled to welcome Elishia Holmes, who we first labored with at Warners and who'll now work carefully on our films at Fox, and Adam Kassan, whose number of expertise with authors and filmmakers allows him at Scott Liberated to utilize us to develop our output at Fox and also on our other productions." Scott Free had four films enter into production a year ago including Ridley Scott's "Prometheus," Park Chan-wook's "Stoker," Zal Batmanglij's "The East" and Joe Carnahan's "The Grey," which Open Road Films releases Jan. 27. Furthermore with a first-look deal with last century Fox, which will distribute "Prometheus," Scott Free Prods. has offices in La and London, and works carefully with commericial production house RSA Films. Contact Rob Sneider at rob.sneider@variety.com