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\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>River Gallo<\/a>, star and writer of Ponyboi<\/a>, <\/em>which premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, has inked a first-look deal with Fox Entertainment Studios<\/a> for scripted television and motion picture projects.<\/p>\n \n\tPonyboi<\/em>, which received the Grand Jury Prize nom at the festival, served as the inaugural feature film produced under Fox Entertainment Studios\u2019 new independent film label, Tideline. The pic in addition to Gallo, stars Dylan O\u2019Brien.<\/p>\n \n\tUnder the new pact, Gallo will develop and produce new, platform agnostic content across all television, streaming, and feature film genres.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cRiver is a fearless storyteller with a singular voice and a powerful point of view,\u201d said Hannah Pillemer, Head of Scripted, Fox Entertainment Studios. \u201cFrom the moment we began working together on\u00a0Ponyboi<\/em>, it was clear that River brings originality, emotional depth and creative ambition to everything they do. We\u2019re excited to continue building together and to support River as they create new work for television and film.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI\u2019m grateful to continue my creative relationship with Fox Entertainment Studios,\u201d said Gallo. \u201cPonyboi<\/em>\u00a0was a deeply personal project, and the trust and support I found at Fox made it possible to tell that story without compromise. I\u2019m excited to expand our collaboration and to keep creating bold, unexpected work together.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tPonyboi<\/em>\u00a0took various accolades, including Best Narrative Feature at NewFest: New York\u2019s LGBTQ+ Film Festival and Best Performance for Gallo at the Torino Film Festival, along with additional honors from organizations such as ReFrame, the New Jersey Film Critics Circle and LesGaiCineMad in Madrid. The film also received a 2026 GLAAD Media Award nomination for Outstanding Film \u2013 Limited Theatrical Release, further underscoring the cultural impact of Gallo\u2019s work and storytelling.<\/p>\n \n\tGallo is represented by CAA and\u00a0Yorn Levine Barnes Krintzman Rubenstein Kohner Endlich Goodell & Gellman LLP.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source deadline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" EXCLUSIVE: River Gallo, star and writer of Ponyboi, which premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, has inked a first-look deal with Fox Entertainment Studios for scripted television and motion picture projects. Ponyboi, which received the Grand Jury Prize nom at the festival, served as the inaugural feature film produced under Fox Entertainment Studios\u2019 new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2316371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[350579,305219,448791,448745],"class_list":["post-2316370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-deals","tag-fox-entertainment-studios","tag-ponyboi","tag-river-gallo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Ponybois-River-Gallo-Inks-First-Look-With-Fox-Entertainment-Studios.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2316370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2316372,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316370\/revisions\/2316372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2316371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2316370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2316370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2316370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}