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15 or 30-min Rick and Morty-type animation projects. All due respect to those, I just don't have the skills to develop these projects.
Alex Ott is a feature film and television producer. Films that he has produced have grossed a combined $1.1 billion at the worldwide box office. He was an Executive Producer on Sony Pictures’ World War II film FURY, starring Brad Pitt, Jon Bernthal, and Logan Lerman, written and directed by David Ayer. Alex also Co-Produced SUICIDE SQUAD for Warner Bros and Atlas Entertainment. The film starred Margot Robbie, Will Smith and Jared Leto. His other producing credits include the hyper-kinetic crime thriller END OF WATCH starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Anna Kendrick; and SABOTAGE starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sam Worthington and Olivia Williams. He also worked in development capacity on the Michael Mann crime epic PUBLIC ENEMIES starring Johnny Depp and Christiane Bale, and FIGHTING starring Channing Tatum.
He was previously EVP of Development, Production & Publishing at Madefire Studios, a venture-backed digital comics studio; as well as VP of Production, Development & Publishing at The Story Factory, headed by screenwriter/producer Shane Salerno (co-writer AVATAR 2-4), where he developed HEAT 2 with Michael Mann and Don Winslow’s THE FORCE. He began his career reading scripts for Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney (MICHAEL CLAYTON, OCEAN'S Trilogy), Kevin Misher (Apple's FINCH, Amazon's COMING 2 AMERICA), and Ed Pressman (THE CROW, WALL STREET).
He is currently developing shows for Madison Square Garden Sphere Studios, a feature with Foxxhole (Jamie Foxx) and Incognegro (Billy Porter), and has set up projects with Paramount, 20th Century Studios, New Regency, HBO, Fifth Season fka Endeavor Content, Wiip, Topic Studios, Tango Entertainment, and XYZ Films.