The Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Hurt Locker and Kathryn Bigelow collaborator is backed by Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures.

Boal will serve as CEO of the LA-based company while former New York Times Magazine editor Hugo Lindgren is named president based in New York.

Annapurna will hand-pick Page 1 projects to finance and produce. Matthew Budman will liaise for Annapurna and previously collaborated with Boal on Zero Dark Thirty as co-producer.

Zero Dark Thirty co-producer and longtime Boal associate Jonathan Leven has joined the company in a development/production executive position.

Boal will producer Page 1 projects and may write screenplays or teleplay adaptations. Ellison will come on in a producer or executive producer role.

Page 1 will focus on film and TV based on reported actual events. The aim is to unite filmmakers and screenwriters with non-fiction authors and journalists on projects.

The company may collaborate with reporters and rights holders on book projects that expand their coverage of an issue.

Boal and Lindgren cited event-based films as The Social Network, Lone Survivor and Captain Phillips as the types of project they would go after.

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