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TV Development for 12/16/14: BBC Producing J.K. Rowling’s Cuckoo’s Calling,...
ABC/Untitled Dan Fogelman NBA Comedy Project Network: ABC Entertainment Group Studio: ABC Studios Production Companies: Kapital Entertainment, Mandalay Sports Media, Rhode Island Ave. Productions...
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Awards 2015: Foreign Films, TV Development For 12/16/14, Rogen and Franco...
SSN AWARDS ORIGINALS BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Awards 2015: First-Time Filmmaker Zeresenay Mehari “Blows Away” Angelina Jolie With ‘Difret’ A film that tells the true story of a 14-year-old rural...
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Carmlike Cinemas Drops ‘The Interview,’‘Suicide Squad’ Casts a Big Role,...
Carmike Cinemas Bows To the Pressure, Refuses To Show ‘The Interview’ With the Sony hackers threatening violence, the theater chain became the first to take up the studio’s offer to exhibitors to pull...
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Rep Moves 12/17/2014: Ashley Benson Picked Up By CAA, The Green Room Signs...
CAA: Pretty Little Liars star Ashley Benson has signed with CAA. Benson plays Hanna on the ABC Family hit, and she starred alongside James Franco, Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens in Spring Breakers....
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Awards 2015: ‘Birdman’ BTL, Rep Moves For 12/17/14, Sony Cancels Release Of...
SSN AWARDS ORIGINALS BELOW THE LINE: ‘BIRDMAN’ Awards 2015: Filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu Speaks On ‘Birdman’s Phenomenal Below the Line Talent The director of Amores Perros and 21 Grams not a...
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Sony Hack: The Interview’s Impact on Holiday Box Office, Sarah Silverman...
Sony Hack: The Interview's Impact on Holiday Box Office Sony pulled the movie from its scheduled release date, but none of the other movies playing over the holiday season are expected to get a boost....
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Film Development for 12/18/14: Viola Davis Joins the Suicide Squad, Ted Melfi...
NEW ATTACHMENTS Suicide Squad Logline: A team of supervillains is given one last shot at redemption by taking on missions that will most likely get them killed. Studio/ Distributor: Warner Bros....
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Awards 2015: Cheryl Strayed and Anthony McCarten, Film Development For...
SSN AWARDS ORIGINALS BEST SCREENPLAY: ADAPTED/ORIGINAL Awards 2015 Spotlight: What ‘Wild’ Author Cheryl Strayed Learned From Nick Hornby On the Art Of the Adaptation Not every author has a stellar...
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Paramount Won’t Let Theaters Show ‘Team America,’ Clooney Rails Against...
Cancellation Contagion: Paramount Refuses To Allow ‘Team America’ Screenings In Place Of ‘The Interview’ Several theaters around the country, including the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin and George R.R....
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Exec Shuffle for 12/19/2014: Endemol Shine Group Launched, Campbell McInnes...
Company Launches 21st Century Fox and Apollo Global Management have merged Endemol, Shine Group and CORE Media. The newly created joint venture will at first operate under the name Endemol Shine Group,...
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Awards 2015: Jesse Moss and Chaz Ebert, SSN Picks Movies To Remake With...
SSN AWARDS ORIGINALS BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Awards 2015: Director Jesse Moss On HIs Doc, ‘The Overnighters’ — “They Dropped Their Guard In Ways You Didn’t Expect” The director spent 18 months...
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ICYMI 2014: The Best of SSN
SSN A-List: 6 Film Financiers to Get Your Movie the Green-light Wherever there are films being made, there are companies financing them, no matter what the economy is like, no matter the risk. SSN has...
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Final ‘Hobbit’ Opens Strong, Sony Promises To Distribute ‘The Interview,’...
‘The Hobbit’ Goes Out Strong, Clears $90 Million For Its Five Day Opening The third and, one would think, final Hobbit film takes the top spot, over Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb and Sony’s...
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On the Set for 12/19/14: Emilia Clarke Wraps Voice from the Stone, Idris Elba...
Note- There were not any films scheduled to start production this week mainly due to the holiday season. WRAPS A Patch of Fog 12/21/2014 Logline: A thriller in which a celebrated novelist and TV...
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Awards 2015: Short Categories, On the Set For 12/22/14, ‘Birdman’ Score...
SSN AWARDS ORIGINALS BEST LIVE ACTION/DOCUMENTARY/ANIMATED SHORTS Awards 2015: Short-Listed Short Filmmakers Patrick Osborne, Mat Kirkby & Lucy Walker Take SSN Behind the Scenes, Plus Video The...
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Paramount Hires Lin For ‘Star Trek 3,’ Pee-Wee Movie Goes To Netflix, TWC...
Paramount Has Found Its Director For ‘Star Trek 3,’ And His Name Is … Director of multiple Fast and Furious movies, Justin Lin will take over for J.J. Abrams, who directed the first two films, and...
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TV Development for 12/23/14: Fincher Developing Living on Video & Shakedown...
Untitled Navy SEALs Drama Network: Fox Studio: Warner Bros. Television Production Company: Thunder Road Television Executive Producer: Wendy Mericle, Kent Kubena Logline: The series, set on Coronado...
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Awards 2015: BTL — ‘The Imitation Game,’ SSN Year End Poll, Part 1, TV...
SSN AWARDS ORIGINALS BELOW THE LINE: ‘THE IMITATION GAME’ Awards 2015: Composer Alexandre Desplat, DP Oscar Faura and Other Below the Line Artists On Solving ‘The Imitation Game’ Production designer...
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Indie Theaters To Show ‘The Interview,’ Bigger Theater Chains Are Upset,...
And So the List Of Theaters Planning To Show ‘The Interview’ Starting Tomorrow Has Risen To Over 300 The total includes most major cities — including Houston, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Phoenix, Dallas...
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Rep Moves for 12/24/14: Top Five’s Gabrielle Union Moves to CAA, Will Patton...
ICM: Australian natives Gulliver and Zen McGrath have signed with ICM Partners. Gulliver, 16, played the younger version of Michael Stuhlbarg’s character in Hugo, and then nabbed a role in Dark...
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