Meryl Streep, JJ Abrams Team For WBTV Limited Series Based On ‘The Nix’
Warner Bros Television is closing a deal for the fall literary sensation novel The Nix. Meryl Streep is going to star and produce with JJ Abrams and his Bad Robot. (DH)
Paul Thomas Anderson’s New Film Starring Daniel Day-Lewis Acquired By Focus Features
Focus Features outlasted Fox Searchlight to pick up Paul Thomas Anderson’s and Daniel Day Lewis’ reunion piece. The report has Focus picking up the film’s $35 million budget along with some serious back-end contributions for the writer/director and actor talent. (COLL)
‘Entourage’ Director Teams With ‘Fortitude,’ ‘The A Word’ Producers On TV Drama
Julian Farino will direct the TV adaptation of Lisa McInerney’s The Glorious Heresies for Fifty Fathoms Productions. (THR)
Vin Diesel To Develop Procedural Drama ‘First Responders’ For NBC
Vin Diesel is developing a new procedural drama at NBC entitled First Responders. Diesel will executive produce under his One Race Television banner, which currently has a first look deal with Universal Television. (WRAP)
Toronto: Relativity Launching Indie Division, Taps Mark Kassen As Co-President
Relativity Media is launching R2 Entertainment, a new indie label aimed at fielding lower budgeted, platform releases and tapped Mark Kassen to serve as the arm’s co-president. (VAR)
Indie Animated Oscar Contenders: Sneak Peek
The Red Turtle from Sony Pictures Classics and Miss Hokusai and My Life as a Zucchini from Gkids are this fall’s top indie Oscar contenders. (IW)
For CBS And Les Moonves, It’s Good To Be The King (Network Series)
We will now turn our eye to the major broadcast and cable networks, discussing and analyzing them, starting with CBS which, not so long ago, was a last place network. (TB)
Screenwriters: ‘The Martian’ Screenplay
Undated, unspecified draft script by Drew Goddard (based on the book by Andy Weir). (SS)