EXCLUSIVE: Alloy Entertainment has promoted Elysa Koplovitz Dutton to the role of Executive Vice President of Theatrical Film Production, the company’s President and Chief Creative Officer Leslie Morgenstein announced on Monday.
A leader in creating and producing youth-oriented content in books, television and film, Alloy has fallen under the umbrella of Warner Bros. Television Studios since its acquisition by WarnerMedia in 2012. Dutton most recently served as the company’s Head of Film, having now worked there for over a decade. On the producing front, her most recent credit is the comedy You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, starring Adam Sandler and Idina Menzel, which sat atop Netflix’s charts for multiple weeks upon its debut last summer. Prior to that, she produced Netflix’s smash hit romance Purple Hearts, starring Sofia Carson and Nicholas Galatzine — the streamer’s third-biggest movie of 2022 — as well as its dance comedy Work It, starring Sabrina Carpenter, which like the other titles, debuted at #1. Additionally, Dutton produced the horror pic Tarot for Sony’s Screen Gems, which is slated for release on May 3.
Dutton’s other credits for Alloy Entertainment include The Sun Is Also a Star (MGM/Warner Bros.) and Everything, Everything (MGM/Warner Bros.), which received two NAACP Image Award nominations. Slated for publication through Penguin/Random House this fall, her children’s holiday book, Christmas Forever: Escape to the North Pole, is being developed as Alloy’s first animated feature, as we were first to report last month.
“In the ten years that Elysa has been overseeing film for Alloy Entertainment, we’ve seen substantial growth in our motion picture business,” Morgenstein told Deadline. “She has tremendous vision, bringing our library of IP and original projects to life with the help of great writers and filmmakers.”
Added Dutton, “I am beyond thrilled to continue expanding Alloy’s slate with our supremely talented filmmakers, Les Morgenstein and our creative team in New York.”
Prior to Alloy, Dutton produced Mike Judge’s classic comedy Idiocracy, which continues to play at revival houses nationwide. Additionally, she held roles as an executive and head of film for MTV Films and Vice President at Twentieth Century Fox. Her long list of credits as an executive include Election, Fighting Temptations, 200 Cigarettes, The Wood, Beavis and Butt-head Do America, The Original Kings of Comedy, Varsity Blues and Like Mike.
Dutton has received Women in Film’s prestigious Re-frame Stamp, honoring standout gender-balanced film and television projects, five times since its inception.
