"Star Wars: The Last Jedi" breakout Kelly Marie Tran has been cast in a lead role for Elizabeth Olsen's upcoming series for Facebook Watch, Variety has learned exclusively.The 10-episode series, now entitled "Sorry for Your Loss," is a dark comedy that explores the life of young widow Leigh Gibbs (Olsen) as she deals with the grief of losing her husband while reconnecting with relationships of her past.Tran will star as Jules, Leigh's younger sister. The character is described as the most...
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Jon
Liebman
Chairman / CEO
A former federal prosecutor, Liebman has been systematically building his company’s infrastructure over the past year — hiring five new managers and promoting two assistants to manager — while shepherding multiple projects into production. In recent months, he has developed series at Oxygen, Netflix and Epix, exec-produced the Facebook Watch series “Sorry for Your Loss,” starring clients Elizabeth Olsen and James Ponsoldt, and set up a show at CBS Studios based on Washington Post journalist Souad Mekhennet’s award-winning terrorism tale “I Was Told to Come Alone.” The company’s other clients include Brad Pitt, Eva Longoria, Rob Lowe, Nate Berkus, Bill Maher, Andy Garcia, Judith Light and New York Times journalist David Sanger.