Soon after, Elbaum landed a gig as Will Ferrell’s assistant (her first day was on the set of 2004’s Anchorman), and she worked her way up to producer at Ferrell and Adam McKay’s Gary Sanchez ...

JESSICA ELBAUM: We produced Booksmart, and that’s where we met Molly [Gordon] and Nick [Lieberman]. We were instantly taken with both of them. We’d heard they did this as a short film ...

EXCLUSIVE: Will Ferrell and Jessica Elbaum will produce a feature film adaptation of Cult of Love, Leslye Headland’s dark comedy play that opened to excellent reviews on Broadway in December.

But the long answer starts around a decade ago, when Jessica Elbaum, Ferrell’s former assistant, pitched the comedian on starting a company focused on female-driven projects. At the time ...

Kirsten Dunst is set to star Flora Birnbaum’s debut feature “Self Help,” which is being produced by Jessica Elbaum and Will Ferrell at Gloria Sanchez Prods., whose credits include ...

Enter Your Email to Unlock This Article Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. In an interview with Variety in ...

Kirsten Dunst has signed to star in Self Help as a woman, lost in L.A. and life, who gets sucked into a far-reaching conspiracy theory after she witnesses a hit and run. With L.A. in flames, tensions ...

Jessica Elbaum and Ferrell will produce the film via their Gloria Sanchez banner. Stoller and Conor Welch will also produce via Stoller Global Solutions, and Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter will ...

EXCLUSIVE: Will Ferrell and Jessica Elbaum will produce a feature film adaptation of Cult of Love, Leslye Headland‘s dark comedy play that opened to excellent reviews on Broadway in December.