Managers David Lonner & Ray Shuman On Merger Path

EXCLUSIVE: Top literary managers David Lonner and Ray Shuman will be in serious predicts merge their companies, Oasis Media Group as well as the Shuman Co, correspondingly. Inside the scenario being spoken about, Shuman and Lonner and also the Oasis partner John Mass would meet up beneath the Oasis umbrella, connected by having an make an effort to secure financing to develop the organization. Whether or not this shuts, the merger brings beneath the same roof such feature and tv heavyweights as Qq Abrams, Kaira Silberling, Jon Turteltaub, Shawn Ryan and David Shoreline. While 2-year-old Oasis has some TV clients — crossover A-lister Abrams and ER and Detroit 1-8-7 showrunner David Zabel — the business skews heavily towards features getting a customer list including Abrams, Silberling, Turteltaub, Peter Sollett, Michael Tolkin, Audrey Wells and Make the most of Minkoff. Meanwhile, Shuman, which has run his boutique company for two-and-a-half decades, features a TV-heavy roster including House creator Shoreline, The Shield creator Ryan, Search Baldwin & John Coveny (co-designers from the&E’s approaching series Longmire) as well as the Inside and Drive co-creator Tim Minear. Among Shuman’s quantity of crossover clients is TV author Carl Ellsworth, who segued into features with Red-colored-colored Eye and Disturbia. But overall, there's little overlap between Oasis as well as the Shuman Co’s parts of coverage, developing a merger one where the pieces fit and provides the combined company heft in film and television. Controlling lit talent will remain the business’s core business, but Lonner, Shuman and Mass may even attempt to put projects together. They teamed recently to promote their first show together, Devious Service personnel, the Marc Cherry-composed adaptation in the Mexican Telenovela The Topsy-turvy Service personnel In The Neighborhood. Cherry, Lonner, Mass and Shuman are executive creating the ABC dramedy along with Cherry’s creating partner Sabrina Wind. The combined customers are imagined getting staff dedicated to creating in the creator-friendly atmosphere. Lonner left WMA to produce Oasis Media Group within this summer time 2009. In those days, he looked into joining forces while using Dark Dark evening producer Chuck Roven, but people talks went nowhere. At WMA, Lonner had repped Abrams with John Fogelman, who segued to WME but left taken. Abrams departed the organization right after, now Lonner is his sole representative.