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Murtha Skouras Agency Promotes Hillary Cook and Karen Berch To Partner


Murtha Skouras Agency has promoted longtime agents Hillary Cook and Karen Berch to Partners, overseeing Film and TV.

Both possess a wealth of knowledge, experience and a deep commitment to promoting and celebrating the art of film,” Murtha and Skouras said in a joint statement. Recently, Cook and Berch saw client Arthur Max receive his fourth Oscar nomination for his production design on Ridley Scott’s Napoleon. In addition to cinematographer Robert Yeoman and production designer Adam Stockhausen, who worked on Wes Anderson’s Oscar-winning short The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, other notable clients include cinematographers Stuart Dryburgh ( The Piano), Dan Mindel ( Twisters), Trent Opaloch ( Avengers: Endgame), Andrij Parekh ( Succession), John Schwartzman ( Jurassic World Dominion), John Seale ( Mad Max: Fury Road), Dean Semler ( Dances with Wolves), Dante Spinotti ( Ant-Man and the Wasp), John Toll ( 80 for Brady), and director/DP Alexander Witt ( Sayen); production designers Stuart Craig ( Fantastic Beasts franchise), Jim Bissell ( The Lost City), Raymond Chan ( Ip Man: The Final Fight), Eugenio Caballero ( Bardo), Mark Friedberg ( The Whale), Jess Gonchor ( IF), and Jan Roelfs ( Fast X); producer Clayton Townsend ( Ripley), producer and 1st AD Katterli Frauenfelder ( Beetlejuice Beetlejuice), and co-producer and 1st AD Joseph Reidy ( Ferrari); and editors Keith Fraase ( Past Lives), Richard Francis-Bruce ( Fifty Shades franchise), Nick Houy ( Barbie), Mikkel E.G. Nielsen ( The Banshees of Inisherin), and Zach Staenberg ( Silent Night).

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