‘Cinderella’ Wins the Weekend, Josh Gad Joins ‘Beauty and the Beast’, Eddie...
‘Cinderella’ Does the Expected, Clears $70 Million In Its Opening Weekend The Kenneth Branagh film had the sixth-highest March opening in history, ahead of Run All Night, which finished a distant...
View ArticleOn the Set for 3/16/15: Melissa McCarthy & Ben Falcone Start Filming...
STARTS 31 3/10/2015 Logline: Five carnival workers who are kidnapped the night before Halloween try to survive a terrifying game called "31" in which murderous maniacs dressed as clowns are hunting...
View ArticleSeven Most Wanted TV Pilots, Paramount Grabs ‘Captive’, Studio 8 Grabs...
SSN ORIGINALS The Seven Most Wanted TV Drama Pilot Scripts One of the best ways to learn how to write TV pilot scripts, is by reading pilot scripts. Script consultant and SSN contributor Stephanie...
View ArticleMarc Evans Scores Top Paramount Job, Apple’s Online TV Service To Launch In...
It’s Promotion Day At Paramount! Marc Evans Named To Replace Adam Goodman as President of the Motion Picture Group After reportedly talking to Sony's Michael De Luca and Doug Belgrad, Brad Grey has...
View ArticleTV Development for 3/17/15: Jennifer Lopez to Teach ‘California’ History...
All That Jazz Network: TLC Studio: Discovery Communications Production Company(s): This Is Just a Test Executive Producer(s): Aengus James, Colin Miller Logline: Follows the life of transgender teen...
View ArticleFerrell and Black To Play ‘Tag’, STX Close To a Big Deal, Sklar Brothers Work...
SSN ORIGINALS TV Development For 3/17/15: Jennifer Lopez To Teach ‘California’ History At NBC, Will Ferrell Teams With MLB For HBO Doc Plenty of action this week, with new projects announced from Jeff...
View Article‘Shameless’& Two Other Hour-Longs Qualify as Comedies, Lionsgate Makes Big...
Never Mind Those New Emmy Rules, ‘Shameless’ and Two Other Hour-Longs Qualify as Comedies Jane the Virgin and Glee will also be eligible to compete as comedies in 2015 despite their episodes clocking...
View ArticleRep Moves 3/18/15: Vince Vaughn Moves to WME, Paul Dano & Evan Peters Sign...
WME: Vince Vaughn has signed with WME. The actor was a long-time client of CAA. The move comes as Vaughn is set to star in the second season of HBO’s acclaimed series True Detective. The Green Room:...
View ArticleThe Accidental Turitz On Revisiting Old Film Properties, Amazon Renews...
SSN ORIGINALS The Accidental Turitz: Revisiting Old Properties — It’s a Growth Industry! Senior Editor Neil Turitz returns with his eponymous column, and in the process takes a look at Disney’s recent...
View ArticleSony Hires Polley To Write New ‘Little Women’, ‘Jane’ Star Joining ‘Deepwater...
Sarah Polley and Amy Pascal Are Getting Behind Yet Another Adaptation Of ‘Little Women’ Polley, who wrote and directed Away From Her, Take This Waltz and Stories We Tell, has been hired by producer...
View ArticleFilm Development for 3/19/15: Amy Pascal to Produce ‘Little Women’, ‘Beauty &...
NEW ATTACHMENTS Little Women Logline: The four March sisters grow up in the years following the Civil War. Studio/ Distributor: Columbia Pictures Production Company: Di Novi Pictures, Amy Pascal...
View ArticleJGL Boards ‘Fraggle Rock’, FX Signs Sher To Two-Year Deal, Warner Shifts...
SSN ORIGINALS Film Development For 3/19/15: Amy Pascal To Produce ‘Little Women’, ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Cast Updates, and More Once again, there has been plenty of action over the last week, both with...
View ArticleMo’Ne Davis Biopic In the Works, ‘The Bad Batch’ Casts Three Stars, Sony TV...
The Disney Channel Has Put a Mo’Ne Davis Biopic Into Development Titled Throw Like Mo, the TV film will tell the inspiring story of the 13-year-old sports prodigy who made history in August 2014 as the...
View ArticleExec Shuffle for 3/20/15: Marc Evans Named President of Paramount, New VP at...
Company Launches British TV execs Pat Younge, Narinder Minhas, and Lucy Pilkington have launched the media company Sugar Films. The new venture will “create programming for young, mainstream and...
View Article‘Divergent’ Producers On Finding New Director, ‘OITNB’ Will Compete as a...
SSN ORIGINALS Producing Partners Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher On Finding the Right Director For ‘Divergent Series: Insurgent’ With the action film Insurgent hitting theaters today, this second installment...
View Article‘Insurgent’ Wins the Box Office, SXSW Announces Winners, New Mexico...
‘Insurgent’ Wins the Weekend With a Robust $54 Million, but ‘Cinderella’ Stays Strong The second installment of the Divergent series did about as expected, while Kenneth Branagh’s live action fairy...
View ArticleOn the Set for 3/23/15: Ryan Reynolds Starts Shooting ‘Deadpool’, Chloe Grace...
STARTS Beyond Deceit 3/20/2015 Logline: When an ambitious young lawyer takes on a big case against the ruthless executive of a pharmaceutical company, he is drawn into a murder case and considered...
View ArticleSXSW Wrap-Up, Hulu Greenlights New Show From Jason Katims, Lawrence Leaving...
SSN ORIGINALS SXSW 2015 Wrap-Up: The Awards Winners and the Movies That Shined The annual SXSW Film Festival wrapped up this past weekend, and the streets and theaters of Austin, Texas are getting back...
View ArticleRusso Bros. To Helm ‘Avengers: Infinity War — Parts 1&2′, Paramount Dissolves...
It’s Official, the Russo Brothers Will Be Directing the Two-Part ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ The duo who directed Captain America: The Winter Soldier and are preparing to shoot Captain America: Civil War...
View ArticleTV Development for 3/24/15: Team Downey Developing HBO Project, Jeremy Renner...
Baghdad Country Club Network: Cinemax Studio: Warner Horizon Television Production Company(s): Team Downey Executive Producer(s): Dave Andron, Robert Downey Jr., Susan Downey, Amanda Essick Burrell,...
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