Aperture Entertainment is a boutique management/production company founded by Adam Goldworm in 2009. Aperture reps a wide array of filmmakers and novelists and specializes in transmedia genre storytelling.
Aperture has proven to be one of the leading companies in the business when it comes to adapting genre books and graphic novels, having produced the Tribeca hit MY FRIEND DAHMER starring Ross Lynch, Alex Wolff, and Anne Heche by award-winning political cartoonist Derf Backderf based on the teenage life of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Aperture also produced Lionsgate’s 2015 supernatural actioner THE LAST WITCH HUNTER starring Vin Diesel, and the Robert DeNiro crime film HEIST.
The company is currently producing this summer’s historic epic HANNIBAL at Netflix reteaming Denzel Washington and filmmaker Antoine Fuqua and the 2025 Blacklist script ALPHA at Netflix in the UK this winter.
Aperture's Adam Goldworm is partnered with horror icon and New York Times Best Selling author Grady Hendrix. Together, they are producing adaptations of his books, including HORRORSTOR at Searchlight with Jonathan Levine, HOW TO SELL A HAUNTED HOUSE at Legendary with Sam Raimi, BADASSTRONAUTS at Paramount, ANKLE SNATCHER at Sony with Ben Leonberg, and THE BLANKS at Netflix with 21 Laps.
Goldworm is also currently producing a television adaptation of Grady Hendrix’s New York Times Best Seller FINAL GIRLS SUPPORT GROUP at HBO with Charlize Theron and Andy Muschietti directing, an adaptation of Image Comics Series PROOF with Will Smith at Fox, and HUSH MUNI with Priyanka Chopra at MGM.
Aperture Entertainment
adam goldworm, founder
Adam is obsessed with fearless voices — he builds stories that cut deep, pushing boundaries and blending genres. He represents authors and filmmakers who redefine the spaces they work in. Adam lives at the intersection of publishing and film & television.
As founder of Aperture Entertainment, Adam specializes in guiding stories from the page to the screen. He manages bestselling authors reshaping the way audiences experience fear, humor, and wonder — helping them adapt their worlds for film and television, and collaborating with studios to build elevated, character-driven genre franchises.
Aperture's novelist roster includes groundbreaking storytellers such as Grady Hendrix (Horrorstör, How to Sell a Haunted House), Adam Cesare (Clown in the Cornfield), and Ezra Clayton Daniels (Upgrade Soul) — writers whose work proves that great genre storytelling can be both terrifying and deeply human.
Aperture's filmmakers and screenwriters include the creatives behind The Night Agent (Netflix), Severance (Apple), and films like Dead Mail, Starry Eyes, Pet Sematary, Influencer, Underworld, Werewolves, and The Last Witch Hunter.
On the producing side, Aperture has developed and packaged projects across every major studio and streamer — always with one goal: to turn visionary ideas into lasting franchises. Whether it’s a novel, screenplay, graphic novel, or original concept, Adam is drawn to stories that challenge convention and make people feel something they didn’t expect.
Recent projects include HANNIBAL (Netflix), Alpha (Netflix), The Blanks (Netflix), Ankle Snatcher (Sony), Thaw (New Line), and HORRORSTOR (Searchlight), as well as earlier titles like My Friend Dahmer (FilmRise), Satanic Panic (RLJE), Heist (Lionsgate), The Last Witch Hunter (Lionsgate), Masters of Horror (Showtime), and the upcoming Swallow.
On the TV side, Aperture's development slate includes adaptations of Proof (Fox) and The Final Girl Support Group (HBO).
Aperture's mission is simple: connect brilliant creators with the partners who can amplify their vision.
Adam started out writing obituaries for Variety and later spent five years at Industry Entertainment as EVP of Television, where he produced several anthology series including Showtime’s Emmy Award–winning Masters of Horror, ABC’s Emmy-nominated Masters of Science Fiction, and NBC’s Fear Itself.
Adam was named one of The Hollywood Reporter’s “Next Generation: 35 Under 35” in 2008.
And for the record — he has no plans to change his surname.
