Insiders will introduce international buyers in Cannes to the upcoming project from It Follows director David Robert Mitchell.
Under The Silver Lake is based on an original screenplay by Mitchell and is described simply as “a modern day noir crime thriller set in Los Angeles.”
Michael De Luca produces via Michael De Luca Productions, alongside Chris Bender and Jake Weiner, and Adele Romanski.
The producers have earmarked a late summer start.
It Follows earned a rabid following after it premiered in Cannes Critics’ Week two years ago. Mitchell’s first film The Myth Of The American Sleepover screened in the same programme in 2010.
CAA represents Mitchell and Garfield, packaged the project, brokered the deal with Insiders, and represents Us rights.
Mitchell is also represented by Benderspink, and attorney David Fox; Garfield by Gordon and French in the UK, and attorney David Weber.
“I’m super excited to be working with Andrew and Insiders,” said Mitchell...
Under The Silver Lake is based on an original screenplay by Mitchell and is described simply as “a modern day noir crime thriller set in Los Angeles.”
Michael De Luca produces via Michael De Luca Productions, alongside Chris Bender and Jake Weiner, and Adele Romanski.
The producers have earmarked a late summer start.
It Follows earned a rabid following after it premiered in Cannes Critics’ Week two years ago. Mitchell’s first film The Myth Of The American Sleepover screened in the same programme in 2010.
CAA represents Mitchell and Garfield, packaged the project, brokered the deal with Insiders, and represents Us rights.
Mitchell is also represented by Benderspink, and attorney David Fox; Garfield by Gordon and French in the UK, and attorney David Weber.
“I’m super excited to be working with Andrew and Insiders,” said Mitchell...
- 5/4/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Nicholas Hoult (upcoming Equals, Mad Max: Fury Road), Luke Evans (Furious 7, The Hobbit film series) and Henry Cavill (upcoming Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice, Man Of Steel) are set to star in the intense war drama Sand Castle, produced by Oscar nominated Mark Gordon (Steve Jobs, Saving Private Ryan) of The Mark Gordon Company, Justin Nappi (Arbitrage, All Is Lost) through his company Treehouse Pictures and Ben Pugh (upcoming Collide, Welcome To The Punch) of 42, it was announced today.
Set in Iraq circa 2003, Sand Castle is based on Roessner’s experience as a machine gunner in Iraq’s Sunni Triangle. The story centers on Matt Ocre (Hoult) who is part of a mission to repair a broken water system in the dangerous and unstable Iraqi village of Baqubah. While the people of Baghdad welcome the Americans as saviors, the villagers resist their presence and Matt and his unit...
Set in Iraq circa 2003, Sand Castle is based on Roessner’s experience as a machine gunner in Iraq’s Sunni Triangle. The story centers on Matt Ocre (Hoult) who is part of a mission to repair a broken water system in the dangerous and unstable Iraqi village of Baqubah. While the people of Baghdad welcome the Americans as saviors, the villagers resist their presence and Matt and his unit...
- 10/8/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Voltage Pictures will fully finance and produce Christoph Waltz’s directorial debut as the new-look sales team heads to Cannes to launch pre-sales.
President and COO Jonathan Deckter and president of international sales John Fremes will introduce The Worst Marriage In Georgetown, in which Waltz will play a fabulist who rises through Washington DC society.
Based on The New York Times Magazine article by Franklin Foer, Proof screenwriter David Auburn’s adapted script centres on social climber Albrect Muth, who married a wealthy older widow and rubbed shoulders with the Us social and political elite until his wife was found murdered.
Production is scheduled to commence on October 12, with Waltz producing alongside Erica Steinberg and Voltage chief Nicolas Chartier. ICM Partners co-represents Us rights with Voltage.
Zev Foreman and Deckter will serve as executive producers for Voltage with M Janet Hill, who originally optioned the material.
Dominic Rustam negotiated the deal on behalf of Voltage with ICM Partners...
President and COO Jonathan Deckter and president of international sales John Fremes will introduce The Worst Marriage In Georgetown, in which Waltz will play a fabulist who rises through Washington DC society.
Based on The New York Times Magazine article by Franklin Foer, Proof screenwriter David Auburn’s adapted script centres on social climber Albrect Muth, who married a wealthy older widow and rubbed shoulders with the Us social and political elite until his wife was found murdered.
Production is scheduled to commence on October 12, with Waltz producing alongside Erica Steinberg and Voltage chief Nicolas Chartier. ICM Partners co-represents Us rights with Voltage.
Zev Foreman and Deckter will serve as executive producers for Voltage with M Janet Hill, who originally optioned the material.
Dominic Rustam negotiated the deal on behalf of Voltage with ICM Partners...
- 5/6/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The “Into the Woods” actress will play Charlize Theron’s evil sister The Snow Queen
Hot off a win at the Critics Choice Awards for “Edge of Tomorrow,” Emily Blunt is in negotiations to join Chris Hemsworth in Universal’s “Snow White and the Huntsman” sequel “The Huntsman,” multiple individuals with knowledge of the project have told TheWrap.
Director Frank Darabont abruptly left the high-priority project this week but Universal is moving full-steam ahead and a new filmmaker is expected to be hired next week.
Universal did not confirm the casting, though sources did confirm Darabont’s exit, citing creative differences.
Hot off a win at the Critics Choice Awards for “Edge of Tomorrow,” Emily Blunt is in negotiations to join Chris Hemsworth in Universal’s “Snow White and the Huntsman” sequel “The Huntsman,” multiple individuals with knowledge of the project have told TheWrap.
Director Frank Darabont abruptly left the high-priority project this week but Universal is moving full-steam ahead and a new filmmaker is expected to be hired next week.
Universal did not confirm the casting, though sources did confirm Darabont’s exit, citing creative differences.
- 1/17/2015
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Rising stars Ben Schnetzer (“Pride”) and Nick Jonas (“Kingdom”) are nearing deals to play brothers in “Goat,” an adaptation of Brad Land’s acclaimed memoir that Andrew Neel will direct for Killer Films and James Franco’s Rabbit Bandini Productions, TheWrap has learned.
Neel (“King Kelly”) will direct from a script he co-wrote with Mike Roberts, based on an earlier draft by David Gordon Green.
Reeling from a terrifying assault, 19-year-old Brad Land (Schnetzer) enrolls in college with his charismatic younger brother (Jonas) and pledges the same fraternity. What happens there, in the name of “brotherhood,” tests the boy and...
Neel (“King Kelly”) will direct from a script he co-wrote with Mike Roberts, based on an earlier draft by David Gordon Green.
Reeling from a terrifying assault, 19-year-old Brad Land (Schnetzer) enrolls in college with his charismatic younger brother (Jonas) and pledges the same fraternity. What happens there, in the name of “brotherhood,” tests the boy and...
- 1/5/2015
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Armed with a four-minute test reel and a passionate 20-minute pitch, It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia co-creator and co-star Rob McElhenney has closed a significant deal at Legendary Pictures to make his feature directorial and screenwriting debut. Legendary has made what I’ve heard is a potential seven-figure commitment to preemptively acquire his family action pitch Figment, with McElhenney tied to write the script and direct the film, and produce it. It’s a family action adventure about an imaginative boy and his family who are thrown for a loop when their greatest fears come to life. It is a template for the kind of large scale film that fits the Legendary template, and there is a ticking clock incentive that puts it on a fast track. Legendary will produce with 3 Arts’ Nicholas Frenkel and McElhenney.
These kinds of deals for first timers are hard to come by,...
These kinds of deals for first timers are hard to come by,...
- 10/14/2014
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline
‘The Departed’s William Monahan Making Pic From New Yorker Exposé On Drug Cop Misuse Of Kid Snitches
Exclusive: Paramount Pictures and Oscar-winning The Departed scribe William Monahan are teaming up to acquire The Throwaways, a 2012 New Yorker article by Sarah Stillman that will be used as the basis for a film Monahan will write and produce under his Paramount-based Henceforth Pictures banner. I’m not sure where he goes with the subject matter, but the article is enough to incense any parent.
The article detailed the death count of kids who were collared by drug enforcement agents for relatively minor or even borderline serious infractions, like being caught with small amounts of drugs, and trade cooperation for prosecution. What they do is take these untrained kids and wire them up and put them into incredibly dangerous sting operations to catch big fish. The article opens with the description of a young girl from Florida, who was caught with five ounces of pot and a couple Ecstasy and Valium pills.
The article detailed the death count of kids who were collared by drug enforcement agents for relatively minor or even borderline serious infractions, like being caught with small amounts of drugs, and trade cooperation for prosecution. What they do is take these untrained kids and wire them up and put them into incredibly dangerous sting operations to catch big fish. The article opens with the description of a young girl from Florida, who was caught with five ounces of pot and a couple Ecstasy and Valium pills.
- 9/24/2014
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline
Joaquin Phoenix has finalized a deal to star in the next film directed by Woody Allen, which I’m hearing is going to begin shooting in July. As per usual there’s not much known Allen’s projects before they really get going, but his past few have included gangbusters Midnight In Paris and Blue Jasmine, the latter landing its star Cate Blanchett the Best Actress Oscar this year. The writer-director’s next pic in his seemingly endless pipeline is romantic comedy Magic In The Moonlight, about an Englishman brought in to help unmask a possible swindle in the south of France in the 1920s against a backdrop of wealthy mansions, the Côte d’Azur, jazz joints and fashionable spots for the wealthy of the Jazz Age. Phoenix is coming off Spike Jonze’s Oscar-nommed Her, which earned the actor a Golden Globe nom, and he just finished Inherent Vice for Paul Thomas Anderson.
- 5/2/2014
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Evergreen Studios has announced plans for "Tales of Honor," a multi-platform adaptation of David Weber's literary sci-fi character Honor Harrington. Comic books, digital games, webisodes, a television series and a feature film are all in the works.
The story is set two millennia into the future in an age where hyperspace travel has allowed colonization of the universe's most far reaches, and humanity is largely gender blind.
The action follows a brilliant genetically engineered female spaceship captain leading a crew on political, military, and personal adventures.
The character appeared in at least twenty-eight books, which will serve as content for various storylines, and the tone is said to be gritty and heavily grounded in real science.
Source: Superhero Hype...
The story is set two millennia into the future in an age where hyperspace travel has allowed colonization of the universe's most far reaches, and humanity is largely gender blind.
The action follows a brilliant genetically engineered female spaceship captain leading a crew on political, military, and personal adventures.
The character appeared in at least twenty-eight books, which will serve as content for various storylines, and the tone is said to be gritty and heavily grounded in real science.
Source: Superhero Hype...
- 1/15/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Evergreen Studios announced today plans to bring David Weber's literary science fiction character, Honor Harrington, to the big screen. Tales of Honor is the name they're giving to their expansive plans for a multi-platform adaptation, which is looking to include comic books, digital games, webisodes, a television series and a feature film. Tales of Honor follows the life and times of Harrington, a brilliant genetically engineered female spaceship captain, as she heroically leads her crew through a series of epic political, military, and personal adventures. The stories are set 2,000 years in the future when hyperspace travel has allowed humanity to colonize the far reaches of the universe and are underscored by altruistic themes such as loyalty and leadership. .What...
- 1/15/2014
- Comingsoon.net
Exclusive: Actor Breckin Meyer is establishing himself as an in-demand series creator. Thursdays, an ensemble single-camera from the Men At Work creator, has landed at NBC with a script order plus penalty. The project, from Sony TV, where Meyer is under an overall deal, and studio-based Fanfare, revolves around a group of male friends and a weekly Thursday guys dinner that has become a tradition in their busy, chaotic lives. Meyer is co-writing the script with Jesse Stern (NCIS) and will executive produce alongside Fanfare’s Jamie Tarses. Thursdays further expands Meyer’s relationship with Sony TV and Fanfare which are also behind his starring vehicle as an actor, TNT dramedy Franklin & Bash, as well as his first series as a creator, TBS comedy Men At Work, which was recently renewed for a third season. Meyer, repped by ICM Partners, Thruline and David Weber, previously worked as a writer on Adult Swim’s Robot Chicken,...
- 8/27/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: Jean-Marc Vallée, who helmed the upcoming Matthew McConaughey-starrer Dallas Buyers Club, has been set by Fox Searchlight to helm Wild. Reese Witherspoon already is set to star in the Nick Hornby-scripted adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s best-selling memoir. Witherspoon and her Pacific Standard partner Bruna Papandrea are producing with River Road Entertainment’s Bill Pohlad. Vallee’s producing partner, Nathan Ross, will be exec producer. Witherspoon will play Strayed, who in the book recounted how the twin tragedies of her marriage cratering and her mother dying plunged her into a long spiral of reckless and destructive behavior. At the end of her rope, she made a rash decision: With no experience, she hiked more than 1,000 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail, alone. She experienced as much terror as pleasure in navigating the rough terrain but regained her mojo in the process. Searchlight execs Claudia Lewis and David Greenbaum are overseeing.
- 8/21/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Writers David Elliot and Paul Lovett, whose feature credits include Four Brothers, GI Joe and the in-development sequel to Midnight Run, have sold a drama pitch to Fox through 20th Century Fox TV and Marty Adelstein and Shawn Levy’s studio-based 21 Laps/Adelstein. Titled Domain, the project is described as a contemporary take on Catch Me if You Can. After his arrest, a brilliant young political “hactivist” is coerced into helping U.S. intelligence track down the source of a series of devastating national security leaks. Adelstein, Levy and Becky Clements executive produce. Elliot and Lovett are with Verve, Principato-Young and McKuin, Frankel & Whitehead. Rob Lieber, co-writer of Disney’s Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, has sold a comedy project to FX. Titled The Great Zucchini, the half-hour is produced by Fox 21, with Alex Goldstone of Anonymous Content and Ryan Reynolds, Allen Loeb, Steven Pearl...
- 8/19/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: César-nominated French actress Louise Bourgoin will join Oscar Isaac and Garret Hedlund in Mojave, the thriller to be directed by William Monahan from his original screenplay. The film is about a desolated, violent artist who escapes into the desert and encounters a worthy antagonist in the form of a brilliant, homicidal drifter. Bourgoin is best known for the French films La fille de Monaco and L’amour dure trois ans. Monahan’s Henceforth Pictures will co-produce the film with Atlas Independent. The actress is repped by Wme, which also reps Monahan. The writer/director is also repped by 42 and David Weber.
- 7/18/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Exclusive:Ryan Reynolds is set to star with Ben Mendelsohn in Mississippi Grind, the next film for writer/directors Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden. The film focuses on a gambler on a losing streak who teams with a younger gambling addict, hoping to change his luck. They road trip through the South hoping fortune will smile upon them. Fleck and Boden most recently directed Half Nelson and It’s Kind Of A Funny Story. The film is being produced by Electric City partners Jamie Patricof and Lynette Howell, and John Lesher through his Le Grisbi banner. Production will start early next year. Reynolds is coming off Safe House, and next stars with Jeff Bridges in the Robert Schwentke-directed R.I.P.D. He has been mixing studio work with character pieces, and also completed the Atom Egoyan-directed Queen Of The Night, Voices, and the FilmDistrict/Endgame thriller Selfless. The latter is directed by Tarsem Singh,...
- 6/27/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Exclusive: Cillian Murphy jas joined the cast of In The Heart Of The Sea, the Ron Howard-directed adaptation of the Nathaniel Philbrick book for Warner Bros and Village Roadshow Pictures. Brian Grazer is producing with Joe Roth, Paula Weinstein and William Ward, with Palak Patel exec producing. Murphy will play Matthew Joy, second mate on the whale ship Essex. Citing reports of cannibals in the Society Islands, Joy and first mate Owen Chase (Chris Hemsworth) convince first time Captain Pollard (Benjamin Walker) to sail to South America after an enraged sperm whale rams and sinks the Essex, leaving 21 crew members adrift in small boats, 3,000 miles from land. The film begins shooting around London in mid-September. Murphy is currently at work on Wally Pfister’s Transcendence with Johnny Depp in New Mexico. He wrapped Cry/Fly, an indie opposite Jennifer Connelly and Mélanie Laurent and this fall stars in Peaky Blinders,...
- 6/19/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Alison Brie has signed with Wme. She was at UTA. Brie currently juggles two series — she is a female lead on NBC’s cult comedy Community, which recently was renewed for a fifth season, and recurs on AMC’s Emmy-winning drama Mad Men. Additionally, Brie stars in the indie Kings Of Summer. She continues to be managed by Scott Fish at Velocity Entertainment Partners and repped by David Weber.
- 5/21/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: Tarsem and Ryan Reynolds are in talks to team on Selfless, the co-production between Endgame Entertainment and FilmDistrict. Based on a script by Carriers scribes Alex and David Pastor, the thriller focuses on a wealthy older man who discovers he’s dying and pays to have his mind transplanted into a younger man’s body. Turns out that body is a cadaver whose previous inhabitant was murdered. Soon, he’s hunted by killers as he tries to get to the bottom of who took him out in the first place. Tarsem most recently helmed Immortals and Mirror, Mirror, and this sounds like the kind of heady subject the visualist does well. Reynolds, coming off Safe House, grounds the film with a sympathetic protagonist. Both are repped by CAA, and Tarsem is lawyered by Linda Lichter and Reynolds by David Weber. Endgame chief James D. Stern and FilmDistrict’s Peter Schlessel...
- 4/25/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Exclusive: As his TBS series Men At Work is gearing up for its second-season premiere on April 4, Breckin Meyer has signed an overall deal with Sony Pictures Television, which produces the multi-camera comedy. This marks the first overall writer-producer pact for Meyer, who created and executive produces Men At Work. Additionally, it expands his relationship with Sony TV, which also is behind TNT dramedy series Franklin & Bash, in which Meyer stars. Both are co-produced by Jamie Tarses’ Sony TV-based Fanfare. Under the pact with Sony TV, Meyer will develop and produce new projects for the studio. Before Men At Work, Meyer, repped by ICM Partners, Thruline and David Weber, worked as a writer on Adult Swim’s Robot Chicken, on which he also is a voice cast member. He also co-wrote an episode of Franklin & Bash last year.
- 3/19/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: CAA has signed Jennifer Jason Leigh. The award-winning actress appeared most recently on ABC’s Revenge in a recurring role as Kara Clarke-Murphy, Emily Thorne’s mother. In January she premiered two films at Sundance: The Beat poet pic Kill Your Darlings, acquired by Sony Pictures Classics, and James Ponsoldt’s The Spectacular Now, which was snapped up by A24. Leigh was previously repped at UTA. She is managed by Greg Clark at Untitled Entertainment and is also repped by David Weber and Harris Hartman of Sloane Offer Weber & Dern, Llp.
- 2/23/2013
- by JEN YAMATO
- Deadline TV
The Emmy-nominated actor and Robot Chicken creator is going to play Lucifer in Delete. Not that Lucifer, but a hacker activist who is described as a cross between Gene Hackman in Enemy Of The State and WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange. Delete is a four-hour miniseries depicting a near future where the World Wide Web has turned on mankind. Green co-stars in Delete with Keir Gilchrist, Matt Frewer, Janet Kidder, Erin Karpluk, Gil Bellows and Ryan Robbins. The miniseries is directed by Steve Barron. Stargate Sg-1 scribes Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie wrote the screenplay. Currently shooting in Vancouver, Delete is being produced by Canada’s Brightlight Pictures, with distribution by Sonar Entertainment. Green, who appeared on Buffy The Vampire Slayer, the Austin Powers movies and does voiceover on Family Guy, among others, is repped by UTA, Koopman Management, and attorney David Weber of Sloane, Offer, Weber and Dern, Llp.
- 8/14/2012
- by DOMINIC PATTEN
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: Julia Stiles is set as the lead in NBC’s drama pilot Midnight Sun. The thriller, based on an Israeli format, follows the mysterious disappearance of Midnight Sun, a group living on a cult-like commune in Alaska. It centers on Leah Kafka (Stiles), a female FBI cult specialist leading the investigation that uncovers a larger conspiracy. Also cast in the pilot, written by Lisa Zwirling, are Connor O’Farrell (The Pacific) as Dugan’s Police Chief Garth Harring, Emma Bell (The Walking Dead) as his daughter Rory, and Daniella Pineda as the receptionist at the police station. This marks the first series regular gig for Stiles, whose feature credits include the blockbuster Bourne franchise. She previously did a season-long guest arc on Showtime’s Dexter, which earned her an Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. Midnight Sun reunites Stiles with NBC where she starred in the hit 1999 miniseries The ’60s.
- 3/3/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Summit Entertainment has acquired Unexpected, a pitch comedy that will be written by Ian Deitchman and Kristin Rusk Robinson, based on a treatment by Jennifer Eatz. Todd Garner will produce with Eatz. The writers, who scripted the Katherine Heigl-Josh Duhamel-starrer Life As We Know It, this time focus on a husband and wife who find out they're expecting their second child. While he's thrilled, she has reservations because her first pregnancy was tough. After an untimely run-in with an ancient fertility totem, they switch bodies, and he gets to experience the business end of pregnancy.Wme and Anonymous Content brokered the deal with attorney David Weber, with Summit production prexy Eric Feig and veep Meredith Milton overseeing.
- 2/4/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
(Freelancer Sharon Swart is helping Deadline’s Sundance coverage) Director Drake Doremus and producer Jonathan Schwartz are in Park City with a film for the third year in a row. Their latest, Like Crazy is a trans-Atlantic love story starring Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones, and Sundance 2010 breakout Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone) and is one of the fest’s most anticipated films and screens today at noon at the large Eccles theater. Last year, the duo had Douchebag in Dramatic Competition at Sundance; the year before, Spooner at Slamdance. At their cast and crew dinner last night, the filmmakers had a quick visit from Harvey Weinstein, who is famous for showing early support and passion for a potential acquisition. The dinner was filled with CAA agents who helped cast the film, including Tracy Brennan who reps both Jones and Lawrence, as well as Charlie Bewley (Twilight) who has a small role.
- 1/22/2011
- by NIKKI FINKE
- Deadline Hollywood
Thankfully for those of who will be running ourselves ragged on Friday, July 23rd, covering all the horror-related events at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con, the genre-centric fare on Saturday, the 24th, is a bit lighter. But what there is should bring out the fans in droves.
Saturday – July 24
10:00-11:00 Panel of the Living Dead: Surviving the Post-Apocalyptic Zombie Onslaught on Xbox 360 — Xbox 360 has become the exclusive epicenter for zombies. The team behind Capcom's Dead Rising 2 joins the industry's top zombie creative minds and a special guest zombie authority for a behind-the-braaaiiinnss look at the popular zombie titles on Xbox 360. Chomp on insights into how they've developed their unique lexicon on undead lore and storytelling approaches, and get survival tips for the inevitable zombie apocalypse. Join the flesh-hungry undead for a special Dead Rising 2 surprise from Capcom and be one of the first 25 zombies attending the panel to receive...
Saturday – July 24
10:00-11:00 Panel of the Living Dead: Surviving the Post-Apocalyptic Zombie Onslaught on Xbox 360 — Xbox 360 has become the exclusive epicenter for zombies. The team behind Capcom's Dead Rising 2 joins the industry's top zombie creative minds and a special guest zombie authority for a behind-the-braaaiiinnss look at the popular zombie titles on Xbox 360. Chomp on insights into how they've developed their unique lexicon on undead lore and storytelling approaches, and get survival tips for the inevitable zombie apocalypse. Join the flesh-hungry undead for a special Dead Rising 2 surprise from Capcom and be one of the first 25 zombies attending the panel to receive...
- 7/10/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
"Ali" screenwriters Stephen J. Rivele and Christopher Wilkinson have signed with Gersh. They previously were with CAA.
The writing pair is working on the screenplay for "Jonestown" for Overbrook Entertainment at Sony as well as "The Green Wave" (formerly "Mulkey") for director-producer Michael Tollin, Espn and New Line.
Rivele and Wilkinson co-wrote the script for "Nixon," which earned them Oscar noms for original screenplay with director Oliver Stone. They also wrote "Copying Beethoven" and worked on the script for the forthcoming Columbia release "Moneyball."
The writers also are repped by attorney David Weber of Sloane Offer Weber & Dern.
The writing pair is working on the screenplay for "Jonestown" for Overbrook Entertainment at Sony as well as "The Green Wave" (formerly "Mulkey") for director-producer Michael Tollin, Espn and New Line.
Rivele and Wilkinson co-wrote the script for "Nixon," which earned them Oscar noms for original screenplay with director Oliver Stone. They also wrote "Copying Beethoven" and worked on the script for the forthcoming Columbia release "Moneyball."
The writers also are repped by attorney David Weber of Sloane Offer Weber & Dern.
- 3/18/2010
- by By Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
If you're a fan of Adult Swims most popular show, Robot Chicken, then you're going to be pretty excited about this news. Creators/Executive Producers Seth Green and Matthew Senreich have secured a deal with Cartoon Network's Adult Swim for an unprecedented 40 episodes which will encompass seasons 5 and 6 on the network.
"We're very excited," says Green, "we never expected to do a second season, let alone a fifth and sixth, so we are thrilled by the audience response and how the show continues to grow internationally." Senreich says, "We love Adult Swim. It's really that simple. From the get-go, we've always said that Robot Chicken was a show where we play with friends and we look forward to doing that for years to come!"
They've provided with some of the funniest clay-mation skits over the past few years, the highlight of which, in my opinion, were all of their...
"We're very excited," says Green, "we never expected to do a second season, let alone a fifth and sixth, so we are thrilled by the audience response and how the show continues to grow internationally." Senreich says, "We love Adult Swim. It's really that simple. From the get-go, we've always said that Robot Chicken was a show where we play with friends and we look forward to doing that for years to come!"
They've provided with some of the funniest clay-mation skits over the past few years, the highlight of which, in my opinion, were all of their...
- 1/21/2010
- by Bryan Jones
- TVovermind.com
The "Robot Chicken" gang is going primetime.
Fox has ordered a presentation and a script for an animated project from Seth Green, Matthew Senreich and Tom Root that is being produced by 20th Century Fox TV and studio-based Chernin Entertainment.
Separately, Peter Chernin's company has set up at Fox a darkly comedic drama from writer Diane Ruggiero.
Green, Senreich and Root's project, which uses family life and a high school as backdrops for a wide cast of characters, "will have an aesthetic familiar to viewers of Fox's popular animated comedies," said Green, an original cast member on Fox's flagship animated comedy, "Family Guy."
That is a departure from the trio's previous efforts, Adult Swim's "Robot Chicken" and "Titan Maximum," both of which are done in stop-motion animation.
"But (the Fox comedy) will still have the comedic sensibilities of our other shows," Root said.
Green and Senreich created and executive...
Fox has ordered a presentation and a script for an animated project from Seth Green, Matthew Senreich and Tom Root that is being produced by 20th Century Fox TV and studio-based Chernin Entertainment.
Separately, Peter Chernin's company has set up at Fox a darkly comedic drama from writer Diane Ruggiero.
Green, Senreich and Root's project, which uses family life and a high school as backdrops for a wide cast of characters, "will have an aesthetic familiar to viewers of Fox's popular animated comedies," said Green, an original cast member on Fox's flagship animated comedy, "Family Guy."
That is a departure from the trio's previous efforts, Adult Swim's "Robot Chicken" and "Titan Maximum," both of which are done in stop-motion animation.
"But (the Fox comedy) will still have the comedic sensibilities of our other shows," Root said.
Green and Senreich created and executive...
- 9/29/2009
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Guy Pearce is in final negotiations and Bailee Madison is set to star with Katie Holmes in "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark," Miramax's supernatural thriller being directed by Guillermo del Toro protege Troy Nixey. Del Toro is producing with Mark Johnson.
"Dark" is based on a 1973 ABC telefilm about a young girl who moves in with her father and his girlfriend and discovers they are sharing the house with demonic creatures.
Madison will play the girl, who discovers the creatures and is fascinated by them -- until they prove dangerous. Pearce will play the father, an author frustrated by his daughter's tales of monsters, not believing her even when his girlfriend (Holmes) backs her.
Del Toro and Matthew Robbins wrote the script.
The movie is set to begin production next month in Melbourne, Australia. (Del Toro is in New Zealand working on "The Hobbit.")
Madison ("Bridge to Terabithia") is...
"Dark" is based on a 1973 ABC telefilm about a young girl who moves in with her father and his girlfriend and discovers they are sharing the house with demonic creatures.
Madison will play the girl, who discovers the creatures and is fascinated by them -- until they prove dangerous. Pearce will play the father, an author frustrated by his daughter's tales of monsters, not believing her even when his girlfriend (Holmes) backs her.
Del Toro and Matthew Robbins wrote the script.
The movie is set to begin production next month in Melbourne, Australia. (Del Toro is in New Zealand working on "The Hobbit.")
Madison ("Bridge to Terabithia") is...
- 6/29/2009
- by By Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Danny Comden is back at ABC and ABC Studios.
The actor-writer has inked a deal with ABC Studios for "Temps," a multicamera comedy set up at ABC.
Comden will write and star in the project, described as a modern-day "Taxi" set at a temp agency.
The deepening recession is making the project topical and relatable as companies that lay off employees often resort to temp agencies to fill vacant positions, Comden said.
"Temps" also explores the plight of overqualified and underemployed immigrants who held high academic or professional positions in their native countries but often work manual labor jobs in the U.S.
The show is set at the agency's office and will also follow the temps on their assignments. It centers on a 10-year veteran temp (Comden).
"He is absolutely content as a temp," Comden said. "He doesnt work overtime, and he doesn't take his job home with him.
The actor-writer has inked a deal with ABC Studios for "Temps," a multicamera comedy set up at ABC.
Comden will write and star in the project, described as a modern-day "Taxi" set at a temp agency.
The deepening recession is making the project topical and relatable as companies that lay off employees often resort to temp agencies to fill vacant positions, Comden said.
"Temps" also explores the plight of overqualified and underemployed immigrants who held high academic or professional positions in their native countries but often work manual labor jobs in the U.S.
The show is set at the agency's office and will also follow the temps on their assignments. It centers on a 10-year veteran temp (Comden).
"He is absolutely content as a temp," Comden said. "He doesnt work overtime, and he doesn't take his job home with him.
- 12/15/2008
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
FX is plotting a revolution.
The cable network is developing "AR2," a drama from "Prison Break" creator/exec producer Paul Scheuring and "The West Wing" director/exec producer Thomas Schlamme about a group of Midwestern youths who spark a second American Revolution.
Scheuring calls the project, which is expected to be laid off at Fox 21, " 'Les Miserables' in modern America."
It is set in Michigan, home of the top U.S. automakers, where "corporations undermine the common man and the government is not interested in helping (the common man)," Scheuring said.
Scheuring, who had been tinkering with the idea for a while, took it to Schlamme, an American history buff. "It is an analysis of what is a patriot," Schlamme said of the project.
"AR2" will explore how the revolting college students -- as well as the military and the law enforcement officers who oppose them -- perceive patriotism.
"It...
The cable network is developing "AR2," a drama from "Prison Break" creator/exec producer Paul Scheuring and "The West Wing" director/exec producer Thomas Schlamme about a group of Midwestern youths who spark a second American Revolution.
Scheuring calls the project, which is expected to be laid off at Fox 21, " 'Les Miserables' in modern America."
It is set in Michigan, home of the top U.S. automakers, where "corporations undermine the common man and the government is not interested in helping (the common man)," Scheuring said.
Scheuring, who had been tinkering with the idea for a while, took it to Schlamme, an American history buff. "It is an analysis of what is a patriot," Schlamme said of the project.
"AR2" will explore how the revolting college students -- as well as the military and the law enforcement officers who oppose them -- perceive patriotism.
"It...
- 11/19/2008
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Seth Green has signed with UTA.
The move reunites him with his former agency, where he had been a client before switching to Endeavor.
Green next co-stars in the films "Sex Drive," opening Oct. 17, and next year's "Old Dogs." He also co-executive produces, co-directs and co-writes Adult Swim's "Robot Chicken" with Matthew Senreich and voices the role of Chris Griffin on Fox's "Family Guy."
Green continues to be repped by Koopman Management and attorney David Weber.
The move reunites him with his former agency, where he had been a client before switching to Endeavor.
Green next co-stars in the films "Sex Drive," opening Oct. 17, and next year's "Old Dogs." He also co-executive produces, co-directs and co-writes Adult Swim's "Robot Chicken" with Matthew Senreich and voices the role of Chris Griffin on Fox's "Family Guy."
Green continues to be repped by Koopman Management and attorney David Weber.
- 10/8/2008
- by By Kimberly Nordyke
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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