EXCLUSIVE: Anonymous Content is commencing layoffs today per sources. The estimated reduction of staff is less than 15% of the company’s employees.
I hear that pink slips will be across the board, from admin staff to executives. The overall number of those expected to leave the company will be a handful when factoring Anonymous Content’s current staff count which is around 130.
Anonymous Content produces original film and television series, commercials and branded content and manages a robust roster of talent.
The firm, founded by the late Steve Golin in 1999, is led by its divisional leaders. The company’s former CEO Dawn Olmstead departed in 2023. Emerson Collective has been a minority strategic investor in Anonymous Content since 2016.
Anonymous Content’s work has included the HBO anthology True Detective and feature films such as Oscar winners The Revenant and Spotlight. Its management division also represents talent across film, television, and literature.
The company is in production on television projects including East of Eden, Neuromancer, 12 12 12, Little House on the Prairie, as well as the upcoming Apple series Savant (premiering September 26), and American Classic for MGM+. On the film side, Anonymous is behind Remarkably Bright Creatures for Netflix, Parallel Tales from Asghar Farhadi, starring Isabelle Huppert and Vincent Cassel, and Possible Love, the new Lee Chang-dong feature for Netflix.
The company also has an impressive fall festival lineup, with Christy (the Christy Martin biopic), The Balloonists, and Orwell 2+2=5 all premiering at Toronto, alongside other high-profile titles.
Anonymous is currently in production on Oscar winner Alex Gibney’s Luigi Mangione documentary, which Deadline announced yesterday which has sold to Hulu as well as the Elon Musk doc for Bleecker Street and HBO.
Anonymous represents marquee talent such as Samuel L. Jackson and Margaret Qualley, as well as Joel Edgerton, Rebecca Ferguson, and Paul Dano.
As Deadline has previously reported, the broader entertainment industry has faced many waves of reductions.
Anonymous Content declined to comment.
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