Managers David Lonner & Ray Shuman On Merger Path

EXCLUSIVE: Top literary managers David Lonner and Ray Shuman have been in serious foretells merge their companies, Oasis Media Group and also the Shuman Co, correspondingly. Within the scenario being talked about, Shuman and Lonner and the Oasis partner John Mass would get together underneath the Oasis umbrella, associated with an attempt to secure financing to grow the company. Whether it shuts, the merger will bring underneath the same roof such feature and television 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 organization skews heavily towards features having a client list which includes Abrams, Silberling, Turteltaub, Peter Sollett, Michael Tolkin, Audrey Wells and Take advantage of Minkoff. Meanwhile, Shuman, that has run his boutique company for 25 years, includes a TV-heavy roster which includes House creator Shoreline, The Shield creator Ryan, Search Baldwin & John Coveny (co-designers of the&E’s approaching series Longmire) and also the Inside and Drive co-creator Tim Minear. Among Shuman’s number of crossover clients is TV author Carl Ellsworth, who segued into features with Red-colored Eye and Disturbia. But overall, there's little overlap between Oasis and also the Shuman Co’s regions of coverage, creating a merger one in which the pieces fit and gives the combined company heft both in film and tv. Controlling lit talent will stay the organization’s core business, but Lonner, Shuman and Mass will even try to put projects together. They teamed lately to market their first show together, Devious Service personnel, the Marc Cherry-composed adaptation from the Mexican Telenovela The Topsy-turvy Service personnel From The Neighborhood. Cherry, Lonner, Mass and Shuman are executive creating the ABC dramedy together with Cherry’s creating partner Sabrina Wind. The combined clients are envisioned having staff devoted to creating inside a creator-friendly atmosphere. Lonner left WMA to create Oasis Media Group in This summer 2009. At that time, he investigated joining forces using the Dark Dark night producer Chuck Roven, but individuals talks went nowhere. At WMA, Lonner had repped Abrams with John Fogelman, who segued to WME but left captured. Abrams departed the company soon after, and today Lonner is his sole representative.