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Exec Shuffle for 4/10/15: The CAA/UTA Shake-Up, IM360 to Produce VR Content &...
Company Launches STX Entertainment, co-founded by Robert Simonds and TPG Capital is slated to distribute as many as 15 movies a year beginning in 2016 and signed a new deal with Universal Pictures Home...
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How Indie TV Is Changing the Landscape, Warner Wants Wan For ‘Aquaman’,...
SSN ORIGINALS Forget Indie Film — How Indie TV Is Changing the Content Landscape and Producers Are Getting Pilots Made Netflix is buying feature films, Woody Allen is making an Amazon show, and A-list...
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ICYMI 4/6-4/10 – Indie TV, Writer Procrastination, CAA/ UTA War, Development...
Forget Indie Film — How Indie TV Is Changing the Content Landscape and Producers Are Getting Pilots Made Netflix is buying feature films, Woody Allen is making an Amazon show, and A-list Oscar winners...
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‘Furious 7′ Repeats Box Office Win, Fox Going Apocalyptic, De Luca Signs With...
‘Furious 7’ Wins Again At the Box Office, Rakes In Over $60 Million and Clears $200 Mil Overall Home came in seance with $19 million, which gives it just shy of $130 million in the 17 days since its...
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On the Set for 4/13/15: Margot Robbie Wraps on ‘Fun House’ & Starts ‘Suicide...
STARTS Nerve 4/13/2015 Logline: A teenage girl gets caught up in an online game of dares called Nerve, but what starts out as fun and leads to fame turns deadly as the mysterious company behind it all...
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Yallwest 2015 Hit List, Letterman’s Final Guest List, Miles Teller –...
SSN ORIGINALS The Yallwest 2015 Hit List: Eight Available YA Titles This past weekend, SALLOWEST hit Santa Monica. The event had 37 New York Times Bestselling authors and 36 local and acclaimed authors...
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HBO Renews Two, Sanford Panitch Bolts To Sony, Candice McDonough Heads to...
HBO Doesn’t Waste Any Time, Renews ‘Veep’ and ‘Silicon Valley’ After Sunday’s Premieres This means all of HBO’s current Sunday night programs are officially set to come back next year. Game of Thrones,...
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TV Development for 4/14/15: Agents of Shield Spinoff, Charlize Theron Adds...
Untitled Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Spinoff Project Network: ABC Entertainment Group Studio: ABC Studios Production Company(s): Marvel Entertainment Logline: Storyline under wraps. Notes: The project is...
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Strategies For a Screenwriting Career, Fukunaga Resurrects ‘The Alienist’,...
SSN ORIGINALS Strategies For a Career In Screenwriting: Pushing Past Doubts To Be Daring Filmmaker Pen Densham’s best-selling book on creative screenwriting, Riding the Alligator, is going abroad and...
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California Film & TV Tax Incentive Approved, Netflix Aids Blind Viewers, Fox...
California Film & TV Tax Incentive Rules Get State Approval Two months after the California Film Commission board approved new regulations for the state’s film and television tax incentives,...
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Rep Moves for 4/15/15: CAA Loses Eli Roth & Peter Sarsgaard but Gains CNN...
WME: Peter Sarsgaard has shifted from CAA to WME. He has two upcoming films this September, Pawn Sacrifice and Experimenter for Magnolia Films. Sarsgaard will continue to be repped by management...
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The Accidental Turitz On Fixing The System, Joss Whedon Lawsuit, TIFF Starts...
SSN ORIGINALS The Accidental Turitz: How To Fix the Bloated System and the Companies That Are Killing It SSN Senior Editor Neil Turitz returns with a followup to last week’s examination of how the...
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Cannes Unveils Lineup, Warner Lands New ‘Wonder Woman’ Director, New Alex...
Cannes Unveils Its Lineup For the 68th Annual Festival, Did Your Film Make the Cut? Among the competition titles: Gus Van Sant's Sea of Trees, 1950’s romantic drama Carol by Todd Haynes, Denis...
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Film Development for 4/16/15: Universal Wins Both Josh Gad/Jeremy Garelick...
NEW ATTACHMENTS Fletch (Reboot) Logline: Investigative reporter I.M. Fletcher juggles writing exposes and solving crimes while avoiding headaches caused by his two ex-wives. Studio/ Distributor:...
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USC First Frame Hit List, Peabody Awards Announced, Gosling Joins ‘Blade...
SSN ORIGINALS USC First Frame Hit List: The Seven Animated Shorts To Check Out Tomorrow at the DGA Theater, USC is holding the animation component of their First Look Festival and the event is open to...
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Exec Shuffle for 4/17/15: AfterShock Comics Launched, Rachel O’Connor to Head...
Company Launches & Partnerships Gulfstream Pictures is launching Gulfstream TV as part of a two-year overall deal with Warner Bros. TV to develop and produce TV projects for network, cable and...
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SJP’s New HBO Show, Trouble For Theater Chains?, Vessel Makes a Big Money...
Sarah Jessica Parker and HBO Are Back In Business Together! Cable net has given a series order to the Sex and the City star’s new show, Divorce. The actress will star in and executive produce the...
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The Path To Indie Distribution, Cooper In For ‘Preacher’, Spike TV Tries...
SSN ORIGINALS ‘The Road Within’ Director Gren Wells Illuminates the Path To Indie Distribution A few years back, blockbuster titans George Lucas and Steven Spielberg predicted big-budget, overblown...
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‘Furious 7′ Wins Again, Surpasses Billion Dollar Mark, TriStar Sets ‘Billy...
The Third Time Is Indeed the Charm For ‘Furious 7’, Which Once Again Wins the Weekend Universal’s biggest film ever brought in $29 million over the three days, giving it over $294 million in domestic...
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On the Set for 4/20/15: Michael Bay Starts TMNT Sequel, Gal Gadot Begins...
STARTS A Year by the Sea 4/15/2015 Logline: After years of being a loving wife and mother, a woman decides not to follow her husband to a new job out-of-state but, instead, to spend a year alone on...
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