EXCLUSIVE: Tonia Davis, Will Graham and Max Linsky are opening the doorways to Invitation Media, a brand new multi-platform manufacturing firm.
The group begins with a first-look TV deal at Amazon MGM Studios, and an upcoming movie, the Vietnam Conflict thriller Belief the Man, with Daniel Radcliffe and Lucas Hedges, in addition to an audio partnership with The Washington Submit. Graham is directing Belief the Man which they’re additionally producing with Davis and Linsky.
Underneath the Invitation Media banner, the companions are additionally government producing the extremely anticipated sequence Spy Coast, primarily based on Tess Gerritsen’s novel, which is presently in improvement with Amazon MGM Studios.
Invitation Media will function from Los Angeles and New York and is repped by UTA and Kaplan Perrone.
Extra tasks and partnerships shall be introduced this summer time.
“At an unsure time for our business, we wished to workforce up and ship a message of optimism,” mentioned the founders of Invitation Media. “It’s time to supply new sorts of invites to audiences and artists, and we’re excited to be part of constructing that with our companions.”
“Combining our varied business experiences and manufacturing experience, Invitation represents our shared imaginative and prescient to create significant, thought-provoking content material that resonates throughout a number of platforms,” mentioned Davis. “We’re constructing a house for our era of inventive expertise, who’re able to do their finest work throughout verticals; and we’re lucky to construct this with companions who’re finest at school in terms of serving to these tales discover their viewers.”
“The three of us have all the time admired one another’s work and strategy to storytelling,” mentioned Graham. “Coming collectively as Invitation Media permits us to mix our strengths and relationships in a method that amplifies what every of us can do individually.”
“There’s one thing enjoyable a couple of second the place no person is kind of certain what the foundations are anymore, and the three of us have discovered through the years that there’s actual alternative in these moments too,” mentioned Linsky. “I’m thrilled to get the prospect to navigate this one with Tonia and Will.”
Davis beforehand launched Larger Floor, Barack and Michelle Obama’s media firm, in 2018. Whereas serving as co-head of the corporate, she led groups throughout movie, TV, non-fiction, acquisitions, and kids’s programming. Her producing credit embody Oscar-winner American Manufacturing unit, Peabody Award-winner Crip Camp, and NAACP and Emmy Award-winner Ada Twist: Scientist. Most lately, she produced Oscar-nominee Rustin and Depart The World Behind, presently ranked #7 on Netflix’s All-Time Most Widespread Movies Record in addition to the restricted sequence Bodkin, starring Will Forte. Davis is presently an EP on the upcoming Netflix present The Altruists, created by Graham Moore and starring Julia Garner and Anthony Boyle. Previous to Larger Floor, Davis was SVP, Manufacturing at Chernin Leisure, the place she served as an government producer on Snatched, The Best Showman, and Underwater. She got here to Chernin from Walt Disney Studios after enjoying a key position within the manufacturing of their first set of live-action function remakes, together with The Jungle Guide and Magnificence and the Beast.
Graham is an acclaimed author, director, producer, and showrunner with over fifteen years of business expertise. Their portfolio contains the Emmy Award-winning sequence Daisy Jones & The Six, which they government produced and co-developed; the GLAAD and Human Rights Marketing campaign change maker award-winning A League of Their Personal, which they co-created and government produced; and the Golden Globe and Emmy-winning Mozart within the Jungle, the place they served as government producer and showrunner. For his or her work on Daisy Jones & The Six, Graham has been nominated for an Emmy Award, a Producers Guild of America Award, and a Writers Guild of America Award. Their profession started with the groundbreaking Onion Information Community, for which they received a Peabody Award as director and government producer.
Linsky beforehand co-founded Pineapple Road Studios, the podcast firm chargeable for groundbreaking hits together with Wind of Change, Lacking Richard Simmons, and 70 Over 70, which he created and hosted. Linsky has government produced fifteen podcasts which have hit #1, together with Hysterical, a 2025 Pulitzer Prize finalist and Apple’s Podcast of the Yr for 2024. Linsky additionally co-created the web site longform.org and co-hosted the critically acclaimed Longform Podcast, which concluded its twelve-year run in 2024 after greater than 500 episodes that includes in-depth interviews with the world’s notable writers.
At Invitation Media, Linsky and Graham are creating The Listening Venture, a podcast about the best way to turn out to be a greater listener, in partnership with The Washington Submit.
