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Jon Oakes Joins Hammerstone Studios As President Of Production And Development
Jon Oakes has joined Alex Lebovici's Hammerstone Studios as President of Production and Development, Deadline has learned exclusively.
During his time at the studio, he played an instrumental role in the development and production of such acclaimed films as The Guilty, Oslo, Colette, Whiplash, Nightcrawler, Drive, Stronger and Vox Lux. Prior to his time at Bold Films, Oakes was at Andrew Lazar’s Mad Chance Productions, working as a VP on titles like Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper. A genre-focused production and financing entity founded in 2018, Hammerstone has thus far worked on nearly 20 films, including 2020’s Bill & Ted Face the Music, 20th Century Studios’ critically acclaimed 2022 horror pic Barbarian, starring Bill Skarsgård, Justin Long and Georgina Campbell, and the action thriller Sympathy for the Devil starring Nicolas Cage and Joel Kinnaman.
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