Nicky Weinstock & Andrea Bucko Partner On New Production Outfit Sweetheart Entertainment

Producers Nicky Weinstock and Andrea Bucko have partnered to launch a new production outfit that will be known as Sweetheart Entertainment. 

The company launches at Cannes as both Weinstock and Bucko have films in Competition strands. Weinstock was a producer on Clarissa, which screens in Directors’ Fortnight, and Bucko was a producer on James Gray’s Paper Tiger. Both films have been acquired by Neon. 

Weinstock is an industry vet. He founded Invention Studios and previously served as creative head of Red Hour Films in partnership with Ben Stiller, and was Executive Vice President of Chernin Entertainment. His credits include the acclaimed Apple TV+ series, Severance, Dinner in America, Thelma, and Escape at Dannemora. Bucko’s recent credits include serving as executive producer on Osgood Perkins’s buzzy feature Longlegs, Gus Van Sant’s Dead Man’s Wire, and Werner Herzog’s Bucking Fastard, starring Rooney Mara and Kate Mara. 

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