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Film Development for 6/18/15: Demi Lovato to ‘Get Smurfy’, Eli Roth will...
NEW ATTACHMENTS MEG Logline: Carcharodon Megalodon, the 70 foot, 40 ton prehistoric cousin of the great white shark, rises from the abyss and threatens the California coastline. Studio/ Distributor:...
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Emmy 2015: Supporting Actor/Actress — Comedy/Drama, Can You Tweet Your Way To...
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR/ACTRESS — COMEDY/DRAMA After Earning an Emmy Nomination For ‘Breaking Bad’, Jonathan Banks Got His Prequel On For ‘Better Call Saul’ The actor has lived with Mike Ehrmantraut...
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Tom Hanks Is Clint Eastwood’s Sully Sullenberger, Scott Rudin’s New TV Show,...
Clint Eastwood Has Quite Possibly Found His Sully Sullenberger, and the Actor Has Two Oscars Tom Hanks is in negotiations with Eastwood and Warner Bros. to play Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger,...
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Exec Shuffle for 6/19/15: IMAX Sets Up China Film Fund, Elizabeth Banks Signs...
Company Launches, Partnerships & Deals Kevin Biegel, who’s known as the co-creator of Cougar Town, has signed a two-year overall deal with ABC Television Studios. Under the agreement, Biegel will...
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Emmy 2015: Variety Talk/Variety Sketch, Why Amazon & Netflix Might Have an...
VARIETY TALK/VARIETY SKETCH Hey, Emmy Voters! This Is Your Last Chance To Give David Letterman an Emmy This is the last year he’s Emmy eligible — time to think about whether he should be...
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‘Jurassic World’ Continues Dominance, Diesel’s ‘Kojak’ Gets a Writer, Sony...
‘Jurassic World’ Continues Its Record Run, While ‘Inside Out’ Sets a Mark Of Its Own The latest in Steven Spielberg’s dinosaur saga follows up the biggest opening weekend ever with the second biggest...
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Emmy 2015: Writing and Directing, Quick Tips From a CBS Exec, Denise Di Novi...
WRITING/DIRECTING Some Top TV Showrunners Pull Double Duty as Episode Directors After Alec Berg and Mike Judge finished the first season of their HBO comedy Silicon Valley, the showrunners made a...
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Universal Sets a BO Record — In June, Ryan Kavanaugh Asks For More Time, NBC...
It’s Not Even the End Of June Yet, and Universal Has Already Had a Record-Setting Year Consider this a “world” record for the studio. It announced yesterday that it has set a personal-best global take...
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TV Development for 6/23/15: Jason Blum’s ‘Hellevator’ Greenlit by GSN, Lord &...
Hellevator Network: GSN Studio: Lionsgate TV Production Company(s): Blumhouse Productions, Matador Executive Producer(s): Jason Blum, Jay Peterson, Todd Lubin Logline: A team of three friends rides a...
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Emmy 2015: Reality TV, How 8K TV Is In Your Future, Tom Holland Is...
REALITY PROGRAMMING Reality Bites: a Dying TV Genre Looks For a Shot Of Adrenaline Don’t expect surprises when Emmy nominations and winners are announced in reality TV. The genre has seen no major...
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Alicia Vikander Chooses ‘Bourne 5′, Amazon Nabs ‘Elvis & Nixon’,...
Alicia Vikander Makes Her Big Decision, Chooses ‘Bourne 5’ Over ‘Assassin’s Creed’ The actress who starred in Ex Machina and Testament Of Youth will join the cast of the upcoming Jason Bourne film, to...
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Rep Moves for 6/24/15: Jim Rash and Nat Faxon Get Snagged by CAA, Dax Shepard...
CAA: Filmmaking duo Jim Rash and Nat Faxon have signed with CAA. They were previously with CAA prior to their move to WME. They won an Oscar beside Alexander Payne for their script, The Descendants....
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Emmy 2015: Limited Series/Movie, HBO Goes Forward With Fincher and Katims,...
LIMITED SERIES/MOVIE From ‘American Crime’ to ‘Wayward Pines,’ Limited Series Invade Network TV If you consider that everything runs in cycles, then it was probably inevitable that miniseries...
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Emma Watson Joins ‘The Circle’, ‘In the Deep’ Gets a Director While...
James Ponsoldt Finally Finds Tom Hanks’ Young Co-Star In ‘The Circle’ Emma Watson has stepped up to replace Alicia VIkander, who had briefly been attached to the project. Based on Dave Eggers’ novel,...
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Film Development for 6/25/15: Spider-Man News, Dir Jaume Collet-Serra...
NEW ATTACHMENTS The Circle Logline: A young female tech worker takes a job at a powerful Internet corporation, quickly rises up the company's ranks, and soon finds herself in a perilous situation that...
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Emmy 2015: Creative Arts and Guest Performance, AMC Greenlights More New...
CREATIVE ARTS/GUEST PERFORMER ‘The Strain’ Makeup Effects Team On Guillermo del Toro’s Input, Season One Highlights When you’re making the life-consuming commitment to series television, it helps...
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AMC Studio’s Big Move, WGN Nabs ‘To Live and Die In L.A.’ Remake, Kevin...
AMC Spins Off Studio Division Into Separate Entity, Names Rick Olshansky and Stefan Reinhardt as Co-Heads Broadening the studio’s role comes as AMC Networks wants to own more of the scripted content...
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Exec Shuffle for 6/26/15: New HuffPost 24 Video Network, Peter Chernin Inks...
Company Launches, Partnerships & Deals Peter Chernin has inked a two-year overall deal for his Chernin Television at NBCUniversal to develop and produce projects for NBC through Universal...
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Emmy 2015: Predictions, the Options Of Niche Viewing, Paramount’s Next...
EMMY PREDICTIONS Looking For Some Guidance About What Shows, Performers and Talent Will Get Emmy Nominations? When it comes to predicting certain awards trends, it gets a lot easier once the...
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Threepeat For ‘Jurassic World’, Warner Sets a BO Record, Neil Gaiman To Write...
The Juggernaut That Is ‘Jurassic World’ Continues To Dominate, Wins a Third Straight BO Weekend With a three-day take of $54.2 million, the dinosaur flick held off Inside Out, which came in a close...
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