McCarthy at the top of Odd jobs

McCarthy "Mutually BeneficialInch author-director Tom McCarthy provides a 2-year first-look cope with OddLot Entertainment, covering film, TV and all sorts of media outdoors of McCarthy's acting work.OddLot will give you overhead and development fund for McCarthy. The banner's searching at McCarthy's next directorial project because the first project to come under the brand new deal. McCarthy and Kate Churchill, his director of development and production, depends in NY. Sierra/Affinity will repetition foreign sales on all films OddLot evolves and produces with McCarthy as director, producer or author.McCarthy's resume includes writing and pointing "The Station Agent" and "The Customer" and story credit with Pete Docter and Bob Billings on Disney's "Up." Acting credits include "Flags in our Fathers," "Syriana," "Night and Best Of Luck,Inch "Satisfy the Parents" and "Little Fockers" together with being featured within the final season of "The Wire."OddLot principal Gigi Pritzker stated, "Tom is indeed a visionary and talent. The love and intelligence comes through in the work."McCarthy stated of OddLot: "Their proven mission of supporting artists while supplying creative freedom is what I had been searching for inside a partner."OddLot would be a producer on "Drive" and it is in pre-production on "Ender's Game" according to Orson Scott Card's novel concerning the potential to deal with an extraterrestrial alien invasion. Gavin Hood will direct, and Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci will co-produce with OddLot's Gigi Pritzker and Linda McDonough, together with Card and Lynn Hendee. Digital Domain is another creating partner with Summit, that will release the pic in 2013.The offer was discussed by McCarthy's reps at Gersh and attorney Andrew Hurwitz of Schreck Rose by OddLot's Aaron Michiel. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com