SSN HBO Studio Analysis Part 3, SSN 2014 Summer TV Preview: 10 Shows To...
SSN ORIGINALS SSN HBO Studio Analysis Part 3 Compared to where they were a mere six years ago, HBO is back in tip-top shape and on a roll. (SSN) SSN 2014 Summer TV Preview: Top 10 New Series A look...
View ArticleFilm Development For 5/8/14: Lena Headey Set For Clive Barker Adaptation...
NEW ATTACHMENTS A Higher Call Logline: This film dramatizes the true story of a German fighter pilot who opted to spare the crew of a wounded American bomber five days before Christmas and escorted...
View ArticleExec Shuffle For 5/9/14: ABC Studios, Saban Films, Universal Television,...
Company Launches IO Entertainment: Brad Blackbourn, Jorge Del Valle, and Soren Pederson have launched this new visual development company at Pinewood Studios in the UK. The venture will join the...
View ArticleRep Moves For 5/9/14: APA, WME, UTA, Paradigm
Agencies APA: Comedian, writer and actor Chevy Chase is now repped by Bradie Steinlauf, Barry McPherson and Paul Santana. Chase most recently appeared as a series regular on NBC’s cult comedy...
View ArticleICYMI: SSN’S Top Original Stories For 5/5 – 5/9/14
SSN HBO Studio Analysis Part One: Behind HBO’s Rise from Infancy to Emmy Juggernaut HBO demonstrated that if you hire the best writers, producers, directors, and performers—putting your money where...
View ArticleOn The Set For 5/12/14: Eliza Dushku Starrer ‘Eloise’ Starts, Adam Carolla’s...
Starts Autobahn 05/05/2014 Logline: An American backpacker becomes entangled with drug dealers as he tries to race his way across Germany with his girlfriend. Production Companies: Silver Pictures,...
View ArticleTV Castings For 5/16/14: Jane Krakowski To Recur On NBC’s ‘Unsinkable Kimmy...
Pilots Patrick Fabian, Rhea Seehorn and Michael Mando have joined AMC’s Better Call Saul that centers on Odenkirk‘s unflappable criminal lawyer Saul Goodman before he became Walter White’s lawyer. Kyla...
View ArticleFilm Development For 5/15/14: Nat Wolff Attached To ‘The Stand’ Feature...
NEW ATTACHMENTS The Stand Logline: After a super virus wipes out most of the world's population, a group of survivors, led by Mother Abagail, face off against another group, led by the tyrannical...
View ArticleExec Shuffle For 5/16/14: Legendary Entertainment, ReelzChannel, OWN, Hulu
Company Launches Alibaba Pictures Group: Chinese shopping giant Alibaba has registered this film company in Hong Kong. The new unit’s directors will include Dong Ping, chairman of ChinaVision, and Zhao...
View ArticleRep Moves For 5/16/14: CAA, WME, UTA, Paradigm
Agencies CAA: Composer, lyricist and playwright Jason Robert Brown is now repped by Joe Machota, Christopher Till and George Lane. Brown was recently nominated for the 2014 Tony award for Best Score...
View ArticleICYMI: SSN’s Top Original Stories For 5/12 – 5/16/14
The SSN Insider’s Guide To Surviving Cannes For most industry players, Cannes means sleepless nights, days jammed with meetings, and the adrenaline rush of trying to close a deal, land financing, or...
View ArticleRep Moves For 5/23/14: UTA, WME, Gersh
Agencies Gersh: Singer, dancer, actor, producer, host and author Lance Bass is now repped by Noah Jones and Max Nagler. Bass recently hosted the Billboard Music Awards red carpet pre-show, alongside...
View ArticleExec Shuffle For 5/23/14: Fable House, Electus, Fusion, Sundance Selects/IFC...
Company Launches Fable House: Adrien Brody has launched this production company with Nigerian entrepreneur Kola Aloka and Sparkle Roll Culture Media, a Beijing-based production group partially owned by...
View ArticleICYMI: SSN’s Top Original Stories For 5/19 – 5/23/14
SSN Franchise Analysis Part One: The Evolution of Batman In this series, SSN will take a look at one of entertainment’s most enduring characters, from his history to the financial empire of his...
View ArticleOn The Set For 5/27/14: Johnny Depp Starrer ‘Black Mass’ Starts For Warner...
Starts Pitch Perfect 2 05/22/2014 Logline: Under wraps. Studio: Universal Production Companies: Gold Circle Entertainment, Brownstone Productions Director: Elizabeth Banks Executive Producers: Scott...
View ArticleTV Development For 5/27/14: Eli Roth To Direct ‘South of Hell’ for WE tv
Control Alt Delete Network: Showtime Studio: 20th Century Fox Television Production Companies: Fox 21, Chernin Entertainment, Small Dog Picture Company Executive Producers: Jason Winer, Simeon Goulden,...
View ArticleTV Castings For 5/28/14: Mark Pellegrino Set As The Lead In A&E’s ‘The Returned’
Pilots Mark Pellegrino has been tapped as the lead in A&E’s The Returned, that focuses on a small town that is turned upside down when several local people, who have been long presumed dead...
View ArticleFIlm Development For 5/29/14: Morgan Freeman To Star In ‘Beautiful Jim Key’...
NEW ATTACHMENTS You Shall Know Our Velocity! Logline: A man feels guilty about collecting insurance money on a car accident that killed his best friend, so travels with another friend to scatter his...
View ArticleRep Moves For 5/30/14: Primary Wave Music, WME, CAA, ICM
Agencies CAA: Broadway star Laura Benanti is now repped by Joe Machota, Ryan Abboushi, Michael Katcher, Sonya Rosenfeld, Tracy Brennan and Steven Lafferty. Benanti most recently won raves for her...
View ArticleExec Shuffle For 5/30/14: Addictive Pictures, Killer Content, NBC, Branded...
Company Launches Addictive Pictures: Former Development Executive for Guillermo Del Toro, Russell Ackerman and Literary Executive John Schoenfelder have joined forces to form this new film development...
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