American Talent Management

12/18/2025

The official trailer “Jimmy” released this week! Congrats to our client .sam — who is an executive producer and story consultant on this movie. The trailer looks amazing. Here’s also a photo of Sam visiting set in Ireland and pictured with director Aaron Burns.

12/17/2025

Congratulations to our client Sam Juergens as Executive Producer and story consultant on this film!

09/23/2025

09/17/2025

A huge congratulations to producer, director, and composer William Allen Jones for his official selection into the The Los Angeles Shorts International Film Festival, one of the largest and prestigious in the world with four to five thousand submissions every year.

William's original short, “AWAY,” is a metaphorical tale of a lost dog, a grieving owner and a love that searches and refuses to give up hope. The soundtrack, composed by Jones, is available on all major streaming platforms including Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes and YouTube Music.

"There's a cost for getting lost...and a price for being found.”

Link to the song: https://open.spotify.com/album/4JnRmLn6UTKmVMv62qf14t?si=uoLkUULoQkunLGM4fdUung&nd=1&dlsi=da39511bf8714f9

Link to the festival! https://www.lashortsfest.com/about

09/17/2025

American Talent Management would like to shout out and promote producer and composer William Allen Jones, and his single “Your Time to Shine” in the upcoming musical, GHOSTS The Musical! The show will premiere at the Mishler Theatre, from October 17 through 19. Featured are vocals from Jimmy Mowery, star of “The Voice” Season 17.

If you’re in the Pennsylvania area, you won’t want to miss out on this. See why GHOSTS The Musical has thrilled and chilled audiences locally, regionally and nationally. It's creepy, haunted rollicking fun for the whole family! And you'll even shed a tear or two. This Spooky Season....YOU WILL BELIEVE!

Check out the single! https://youtu.be/9R5iXIrxbOk?si=UKfABsKmS_H9Anfz

Buy your tickets here! https://allevents.in/altoona/pandj-productions-presents-ghosts-the-musical/200028745400018

09/15/2025

American Talent Management is ecstatic to announce our newest director and writer to our roster, Dana Ziyasheva!

Born in Kazakhstan and based in Los Angeles, Dana Ziyasheva is a multifaceted screenwriter with a background in journalism, political science, and cross-cultural communication. A former UNESCO Adviser stationed in Paris, Northern Iraq, Beijing, and Costa Rica, she infuses her storytelling with the breadth of her global experience and humanitarian work.

Dana’s screenplay Dragon Angel won Best Project for Co-Production at the XV Shanghai Film Festival. She has written and directed Defenders of Life (2014), an indigenous drama about child-brides in Costa Rica that won Best Foreign Film at multiple festivals, Greatland (2020), a dystopian fantasy satire that premiered at the Moscow International Film Festival, and Washed Out (2025), a Woman-vs-AI horror short recognized for Best Actress at the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival.

She also adapted her thriller novel How I Solved the Homeless Crisis in Cali into a fiction podcast, part of her ongoing work bringing her novels to screen and television. With a background in editing and VFX, Ziyasheva crafts worlds that arrive on the page ready for the screen, with the ability to support them through postproduction and promotion.

We are so excited for this next chapter of her amazing career!

09/13/2025

American Talent Management is proud to announce that Brian Teixeira's script -- 'Mr. Invisible' -- has reached the Quarter-Finalist stage of the Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Competition.

The story centers around reluctant mob accountant Franklyn Delaplane, who is relocated from New York City to a small Indiana town after his testimony at his boss's trial results in a 2 million dollar bounty on his head. Can a flashy goodfella remain invisible in a small town where everybody knows your name?

Teixeira states that he is pleased that his work has achieved a positive response, and looks forward to the script progressing further in the competition. We're so excited for him!

09/12/2025

Never forget.

09/11/2025

Always support your fellow filmmaker in their creative risks!

09/03/2025

From Mia Galuppo at The Hollywood Reporter: Next ‘Godzilla x Kong’ Movie Enlists Sam Neill. He joins Delroy Lindo, Kaitlyn Dever and Jack O’Connell as newcomers to Legendary's MonsterVerse.

Sam Neill hasn’t had his fill of large, terrifying creatures. The Jurassic Park star is the latest actor to join the next MonsterVerse movie at Legendary.

The film is the follow-up to 2024’s Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, which earned $571 million at the global box office. Plot details are being kept under wraps for the next entry, which according to the studio, will feature “several new human characters alongside the beloved and iconic Titans Godzilla and Kong as they face off against a cataclysmic world-ending threat.” Grant Sputore is set to direct the project from a script by Dave Callaham.

Neill joins Kaitlyn Dever, who is also new to the franchise, and headlining the human cast that also includes Jack O’Connell as her brother and Dan Stevens, who played laid-back monster veterinarian and dentist Trapper in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.

Legendary’s MonsterVerse launched in 2014 with Godzilla and has since accumulated more than $2.5 billion at the global box office over films including Kong: Skull Island (2017), Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) and Godzilla vs. Kong (2021). It also spun off into a well-regarded Apple TV+ series, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, which has a second season in the works.

Neill, represented by CAA and Authentic Talent Management, was recently seen in the Peacock series Apples Never Fall and will next be seen in the Netflix mysteries series Untamed. He starred in Jurassic Park as Dr. Alan Grant and reprised the role for Jurassic Park III (2001) and Jurassic World Dominion (2022).

08/06/2025

American Talent Management’s client, executive producer Sam Juergens, has been working with the Stewart Family since 2020 ensuring they were involved since the beginning and secured the story rights. He also partnered with the Jimmy Stewart Museum in Indiana, PA. After working with Sam, we connected filmmaker Aaron Burns to guide the story from page to screen. Today Variety confirms that KJ Apa will portray James “Jimmy” Stewart in JIMMY, with production set to roll next month and a theatrical release targeted for November 2026. I’m proud of Sam’s determination to honor an American icon and excited to share more as the cameras start turning.

08/05/2025

American Talent Management is beyond thrilled to announce the newest producer and writer on our talent roster, Wanda Taylor!

Wanda Taylor is an award-winning author, educator, journalist, filmmaker, and public speaker with a passion for storytelling. She has authored ten books across children’s, middle grade, YA, and adult genres, and her work often centers on uncovering the hidden histories of Black and marginalized communities.
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As an independent filmmaker, Wanda’s acclaimed documentary Still Here: A Journey to Triumph follows Black teens retracing their ancestors’ journey from Africa to Canada, now streaming on platforms like TENK and Eastlink Television. A former TV producer, she has worked on hit shows like Canada’s Got Talent and MasterChef Canada and held key roles on feature films such as Poor Boys Game and Black Cop.
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Wanda Taylor is a versatile screenwriter, journalist, and editor whose work spans film, television, and print. Her writing has been featured in publications like Quill & Quire, The Globe and Mail, and Black2Business Magazine, while her essays, poems, and short stories have been anthologized internationally. As a freelance book editor and professional Sensitivity Reader, Wanda collaborates with top publishers and award-winning authors to ensure accurate and authentic representation in literature.

Happy Birthday, Wanda! 🥳 @ Wanda Taylor

Her website: firstdayfilmsinc.com
Her IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2342580/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_1_nm_7_in_0_q_wanda%2520taylor