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EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Deon Taylor, the writer, director and producer whose recently completed thriller _Intruder_ was acquired for wide release in a world rights deal with Sony Screen
Gems. Hidden Empire Film Group — which Taylor runs with Roxanne Avent and Robert F. Smith — enters into a strategic partnership with Endeavor Content, which is packaging Taylor’s next film,
the noir thriller _Fatale_. This comes after Endeavor Content negotiated the Screen Gems deal for_ Intruder,_ a psychological thriller about a young married couple (Meaghan Good, Michael
Ealy) who buy a beautiful Napa Valley home only to find that the seller (Dennis Quaid) is a lunatic who refuses to leave. Robert F. Smith financed the film. Taylor and Hidden Empire next
tackle _Fatale_. The psychological noir thriller was written by _Intruder_ screenwriter David Loughery (_Lakeview Terrace, Obsessed_) and centers on a married man who is tricked into a
murder scheme by a seductive female police detective. Dante Spinotti is aboard as DP and the producers are Avent, Smith and Taylor. He’ll shoot _Fatale_ in Los Angeles in July. Casting is
currently underway. Endeavor Content will handle worldwide sales for the film. WATCH ON DEADLINE Taylor has been busy. With Jamie Foxx, he produced _All-Star Weekend_, the Foxx-directed
comedy with Robert Downey Jr., Gerard Butler, Eva Longoria, Jeremy Piven, Jessica Szohr and Foxx. Taylor also just wrapped his _Meet the Blacks_ sequel _The House Next Door_ starring Mike
Epps, Katt Williams, Rick Ross, Danny Trejo, Bresha Webb, Zulay Henao, Andrew Bachelor (aka ‘King Batch’), Lil Duval, Michael Blackson and Tyrin Turner. Lionsgate/Codeblack last month
released his latest film, _Traffik_, an intense sex-trafficking thriller that stars Paula Patton, Omar Epps, William Fichtner and Roselyn Sanchez. Taylor also recently launched Dark Circus,
a production shingle to generate elevated urban/pop culture comedy and horror films and TV series. Dark Circus is a wholly owned specialty label under Hidden Empire Film Group, with Shannon
McIntosh partnering on the label as well. Dark Circus’ first project is _The Thrill_, a horror anthology series produced in collaboration with Snoop Dogg. Taylor’s projects continue to be
financed by his longtime business partner and lead investor Smith. Smith is founder, chairman and CEO of Vista Equity Partners, a firm that has more than $31 billion in capital under
management. APA and Primary Wave rep Loughery.