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\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>Octavia Spencer<\/a>\u2018s Orit Entertainment<\/a> has made two key executive hires, naming Kathryn Tyus-Adair<\/a> as Head of Film and Adam Wagner<\/a> as Head of Television. <\/p>\n \n\t\u201cKathryn and Adam are exceptional executives, and I couldn\u2019t be more excited to welcome them to the company, said Spencer.\u00a0\u201cThey each bring an incredible depth of experience and a passion for storytelling. Their leadership and relationships make them invaluable additions as we continue to build the next chapter at Orit.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tAs Head of Film, Tyus-Adair will oversee the company\u2019s feature film development and production strategy. A veteran executive and producer, she most recently served as Senior Vice President of Original Programming at Starz, where she oversaw series including BMF, The Serpent Queen, Blindspotting, Run the World, Step Up, Vida<\/em> and Ava DuVernay\u2019s UNT<\/em>. She also served as an executive on Power, Outlande<\/em>r and The Spanish Princess.<\/em><\/p>\n \n\tPrior to Starz, Tyus-Adair worked in development at NBCUniversal\u2019s UTV Studios, where her credits include producing St. Vincent<\/em> starring Bill Murray and overseeing projects including House of Lies, The Guard, Kidnap, The Horse Whisperer, A Civil Action, Soul Food, Barbershop<\/em> and Men of Honor.<\/em><\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWhat an honor it is to join forces with a visionary like Octavia Spencer and the delightful Adam Wagner as Orit mines and expands its already prolific slate,\u201d said Tyus-Adair. \u201cOctavia\u2019s Academy award-winning talent as an actor echoes in her impeccable taste in the material she produces that crosses genres and speaks to myriad audiences. I\u2019m inspired by her voracious appetite for quality content and by her incredible work ethic. Plus, she is exactly the wonderful human you\u2019d want her to be. Feeling lucky, humbled and grateful to be part of her team.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tAs Head of Television, Wagner will oversee Orit\u2019s scripted television development and production slate. He joins the company from MRC, where he served as Senior Vice President of Television and was part of the senior creative team behind Amazon\u2019s The Terminal List <\/em>franchise, including the upcoming second season of The Terminal List <\/em>and The Terminal List: Dark Wolf<\/em>. While at MRC, he also developed Rabbit, Rabbit,<\/em> which sold to Netflix and is currently in production. Previously, Wagner served as President of Miguel Sapochnik\u2019s 1:26 Pictures, which produced HBO\u2019s House of the Drago<\/em>n. Earlier in his career, he held executive positions at Jason Bateman\u2019s Aggregate Films, 20th Century Fox under Emma Watts, Scott Rudin Productions and Alexander Payne\u2019s Ad Hominem Enterprises.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIt\u2019s a privilege to join Octavia at Orit Entertainment,\u201d added Wagner.\u00a0\u201cShe is one of the most celebrated actresses of her generation, having earned every bit of her success through determination and hard work.\u00a0I couldn\u2019t ask to join a more exciting team alongside Kathryn. As we endeavor to identify rich, complex stories and collaborate with the best storytellers to bring them to the screen, we\u2019re eager to push boundaries for audiences around the globe.\u201d\u00a0<\/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: Octavia Spencer\u2018s Orit Entertainment has made two key executive hires, naming Kathryn Tyus-Adair as Head of Film and Adam Wagner as Head of Television. \u201cKathryn and Adam are exceptional executives, and I couldn\u2019t be more excited to welcome them to the company, said Spencer.\u00a0\u201cThey each bring an incredible depth of experience and a passion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2475947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[487265,487266,362515,487267],"class_list":["post-2475946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-adam-wagner","tag-kathryn-tyus-adair","tag-octavia-spencer","tag-orit-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Octavia-Spencers-Orit-Entertainment-Names-New-Heads-Of-Film.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475946","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=2475946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2475948,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475946\/revisions\/2475948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2475947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}