‘ShadowHunters’ Producer David Cormican Signs With Paradigm

EXCLUSIVE: David Cormican, who produced Freeform’s ShadowHunters and Lifetime’s The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe, has new representation.

Cormican and his Fun Republic Pictures banner has signed with Paradigm. The agency will work with Cormican across scripted feature film and TV as well as publishing, brand partnerships, content finance, marketing, and mergers and acquisitions opportunities.

It comes as Cormican is preparing for the television adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke’s Venus Prime, which is set to go into production in Canada next year with Star Trek alum Jonathan Frakes directing. Cormican is writing, will exec produce and serve as co-showrunner.

He recently produced ichal Kunes-Kováč debut feature film Réveillon, is currently in production on Trevor Cameron’s debut narrative feature film #VanLife, a thriller which stars Michelle Thrush, Tamoh Penikett and Justin Derickson and is in post-production on the Michael Jai White action film Hostile Takeover.

He is also gearing up for The Cheerleaders Must Die! with director and editor Laurence Cohen, wrestling biopic Punishment Hill, which centers around the tragic death of amateur athlete, Grant Brace and The Timbuktu Three from director Joost van Ginkel with Gijs Naber attached.

On the TV side, FRP has recently signed a first-look deal in Canada with Far Point Distribution and internationally with Screen Wizards Pictures and Palatin Media. 

Previous work also includes selling the first Canadian Netflix original series Between and Tokyo Trial, a post-WWII legal drama for Netflix and Japan’s NHK.

His TV slate also includes a WWII biopic mini-series, environmental crime drama Fractured and a sci-fi series with Star Trek alum Morgan Gendel

Cormican continues to be represented by Alan Morell of Creative Management Partners and Stohn Hay Cafazzo Heim Finlay LLP.