SYFY Teams with Matt Damon & Ben Affleck on Espionage Thriller INCORPORATED

Syfy announced today it is partnering with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's Pearl Street Films and CBS Television Studios to develop Incorporated, a futuristic espionage thriller set in a world where corporations have seemingly unlimited power. This will be the story of one man's efforts to beat the system.

David and Alex Pastor ("Selfless", "The Last Days") will write the pilot. Ted Humphrey ("The Good Wife") will serve as executive producer/showrunner, with Damon, Affleck and Jennifer Todd also executive producing. Pearl Street Film's Margaret Chernin will serve as associate producer.

About Pearl Street Films
Pearl Street films is a Los Angeles-based film and television production company. Founded by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, PSF, provides filmmakers with a creative home for making television and film across budgets and genres. They are currently producing a new season of the ®Emmy nominated PROJECT GREENLIGHT for HBO, the filmmaking documentary series Affleck and Damon originated in 2001. Pearl Street films is also in pre-production on the feature film LIVE BY NIGHT. Affleck adapted the Dennis Lehane novel, and will star and direct the film in 2015.

About CBS Television Studios
CBS Television Studios is one of the industry's leading suppliers of primetime network programming, with top scripted series dramas "NCIS," "NCIS: Los Angeles" and comedy series "The Millers." The studio's roster of popular and critically-acclaimed programs also include the phenomenally successful CSI franchise, "Elementary," starring Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu, the Peabody Award winning series "The Good Wife," starring multiple award winner Julianna Margulies, summer event series "Under the Dome" and "Extant" starring Academy Award winner Halle Berry; The CW's "Reign," the daytime talk show "The Talk," and BET's top-rated sitcom "The Game." New series include "NCIS: New Orleans," "CSI: Cyber," "The Odd Couple," "Madam Secretary" "Scorpion" and "Zoo" for CBS and "Jane the Virgin" and "The Messengers" for The CW.

About Syfy
Syfy is a media destination for imagination-based entertainment. With year round acclaimed original series, events, blockbuster movies, classic Science fiction and fantasy programming, a dynamic Web site (www.Syfy.com), and a portfolio of adjacent business (Syfy Ventures), Syfy is a passport to limitless possibilities. Originally launched in 1992 as SCI FI Channel, and currently in 96 million homes, Syfy is a network of NBCUniversal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation. (Syfy. Imagine Greater.)

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