Topic Studios president Maria Zuckerman is a canny executive who can see over the horizon.
In 2019, the New Yorker figured out that the Hollywood universe was expanding at such a rate that it was time to become a bicoastal content provider instead of a distributor-buyer.
She left producing at HBO, where she had been happily ensconced for almost 20 years, and moved over to independent Topic Studios.
She quickly saw a route to diversifying and expanding the company’s lineup, by backing, funding, and producing (at different levels) a wide range of independent features, from the Oscar-winining “Spotlight” to this past weekend’s opener, Pablo Larraín’s surreal Princess Diana drama “Spencer” (Neon), starring Oscar frontrunner Kristen Stewart.“It’s a fiercely independent company,” Zuckerman said in an interview with IndieWire.
That’s because owner First Media created a two-sided entity: the not-for-profit and the studio.
“Our mission is to be profitable,
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