John W. Beach
- Manager
- Producer
- Actor
John has worked in the entertainment industry for over 20 years - starting as a literary agent at Paradigm and later with ACME Talent & Literary, where he was instrumental in the sale of Oliver Stone's WORLD TRADE CENTER w/ Nicolas Cage and YOUTH IN REVOLT w/ Michael Cera.
After ACME, John and 2 producers created Fortress Features, where he aided in the raise of Fortress' development fund. As the Director of Development, John sought out property for Fortress to acquire and develop into rich film/television projects.
In 2011, John aided in the opening of the Los Angeles office of INDYCAR, where he invited and managed celebrities (Dan Aykroyd, Howie Mandel and Gladys Knight to name a few) at INDYCAR events and races. Mostly, John developed Branded Integrations for TV shows like MYTHBUSTERS, LET'S MAKE A DEAL, HOW IT'S MADE and many others. He also worked on the 2013 animated feature film, TURBO, from Dreamworks Animation, which was about a snail, played by Ryan Reynolds, who dreamed about racing in the Indianapolis 500.
In 2015, after surviving cancer, John started Gravity Squared Entertainment, a Los Angeles based management/production company. Gravity Squared has over 200 books/treatment/scripts under management, many being Pulitzer Prize winners and New York Times bestsellers. They currently have over 25 projects in various stages of development/production - including: sold and developed a Primetime TV Sitcom to ABC based on a Chicago comedienne's life; developing and producing a project with Mosaic & Legendary Pictures with Will Ferrell starring and Adam McKay producing; sold the book NOT QUITE NARWHAL to DreamWorks Animation TV - season 1 is currently on Netflix and season 2 releases on Netflix in Jan. 2024; and they just recently optioned Judith Heumann's memoir, BEING HEUMANN to AppleTV, which they will produce with David Permut and the Academy Award winning writer/director of CODA, Sian Heder, at the helm to write and direct.
After ACME, John and 2 producers created Fortress Features, where he aided in the raise of Fortress' development fund. As the Director of Development, John sought out property for Fortress to acquire and develop into rich film/television projects.
In 2011, John aided in the opening of the Los Angeles office of INDYCAR, where he invited and managed celebrities (Dan Aykroyd, Howie Mandel and Gladys Knight to name a few) at INDYCAR events and races. Mostly, John developed Branded Integrations for TV shows like MYTHBUSTERS, LET'S MAKE A DEAL, HOW IT'S MADE and many others. He also worked on the 2013 animated feature film, TURBO, from Dreamworks Animation, which was about a snail, played by Ryan Reynolds, who dreamed about racing in the Indianapolis 500.
In 2015, after surviving cancer, John started Gravity Squared Entertainment, a Los Angeles based management/production company. Gravity Squared has over 200 books/treatment/scripts under management, many being Pulitzer Prize winners and New York Times bestsellers. They currently have over 25 projects in various stages of development/production - including: sold and developed a Primetime TV Sitcom to ABC based on a Chicago comedienne's life; developing and producing a project with Mosaic & Legendary Pictures with Will Ferrell starring and Adam McKay producing; sold the book NOT QUITE NARWHAL to DreamWorks Animation TV - season 1 is currently on Netflix and season 2 releases on Netflix in Jan. 2024; and they just recently optioned Judith Heumann's memoir, BEING HEUMANN to AppleTV, which they will produce with David Permut and the Academy Award winning writer/director of CODA, Sian Heder, at the helm to write and direct.