KELLY CANNON JOINS WME AS MP LIT AGENT

EXCLUSIVE: WME has hired Kelly Cannon as an agent in its motion picture literary department. Based in the agency’s Beverly Hills office, she begins her work effective immediately.

Cannon joins after a two-year stint at Universal Pictures, where she served as Manager, Production & Franchise Development. In that role, she focused on the studio’s Universal Monsters IP, specializing in projects that took fresh, new directions on classic characters from Uni’s iconic horror library. Most recently, she oversaw Radio Silence’s Abigail for the studio, also supporting production and development on titles including Renfield and the upcoming Wolf Man.

At Universal, Cannon was also responsible for activating the IP across all business units within the greater ecosystem beyond film including consumer products, gaming, publishing, theme parks and more. She began her career as a lawyer before working as a journalist in Washington, D.C, earning a 2020 Pulitzer Center Fellowship for her reporting on Covid-19 after stints at ABC News on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, and later NBC News, where she worked for chief Washington correspondent and chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell. Cannon’s reporting on Congress, the 2020 election and the coronavirus pandemic was published by NBC News, ABC News and aired on ABC television affiliates.

WME’s motion picture literary department, led by co-heads Roger Green and Sarah Self, reps 2024 Oscar winners and nominees including Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer) and Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon), as well as such A-list filmmakers as Alex Garland (Civil War), Gil Kenan (Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire) and Jason Reitman (SNL 1975).

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