Rebecca Angelo & Lauren Schuker Blum Launch Business Affairs; WNBA Birth Story ‘Winner Stays’ First Project
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Dumb Money scribes and EPs Rebecca Angelo and Lauren Schuker Blum are opening thier own new production company, Business Affairs (BA) which will be overseen by Emily Rappaport, the director/screenwriter of the upcoming Lena Dunham and Maude Apatow movie, Female Friendship, and a book-to-film scout vet.
BA’s first project, which Angelo, Schuker Blum and Rappaport will write under their female-power shingle, is Winner Stays, about the historic women’s national basketball team that paved the way for the creation of the WNBA.
The film will follow the true story of the 1996 women’s national team that made sports history with its year-long undefeated season, and its leader, Tara VanDerveer, the “winningest” NCAA basketball coach of all time.
The team set the stage for the launch of the WNBA by reclaiming the gold medal for the U.S. at the Olympic Games in Atlanta after a string of international losses.
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