Exec Shuffle for 8/24/15: Shifts at ICM, WME & UTA, MPAA Exec Kate...
Company Launches & Partnerships Amazon has struck an exclusive deal with Open Road Films to stream their titles via Amazon Prime starting in 2017. Films will include upcoming 2016 releases like...
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SSN EMMY COVERAGE Writing/Directing The Contenders: Writer and Director Emmy Nominees A comprehensive look at all the nominees, both comedy and drama, and the shows on which they shine. From Silicon...
View ArticleBruce Willis Exits New Woody Allen Film, Relativity Wants Money To Keep Key...
Bruce Willis Drops Out Of Woody Allen’s Movie: Broadway ‘Misery’ Schedule To Blame Scratch the Die Hard star from the ensemble of Allen’s new film. Woody’s camp confirmed this development and that...
View ArticleTV Development for 8/25/15: Big Bang Theory’s Simon Helberg Developing Two...
America’s Greatest Makers Network: TBS Production Company(s): Intel Corporation, United Artists Media Group Executive Producer(s): Mark Burnett Logline: The series will feature inventors trying to...
View Article2015 Emmys: Reality TV, Relativity Bankruptcy Updates, Debra Winger Returns...
SSN EMMY COVERAGE Reality Television Feeling Like You’re Seeing the Same Titles Among the Nominees Every Year? You’re Not Alone They are all worthy and high-quality shows, nevertheless they’ve been the...
View ArticleRelativity Auction To Move Forward, Michael Keaton Wins In Court, Mike...
Bankruptcy Judge Ready to Approve October Auction of Relativity Media U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Michael Wiles said yesterday he is prepared to approve the Oct. 1st auction of the company, which filed...
View ArticleFilm & TV Deals for 8/26/15: Netflix Lands in Japan, IATSE Ups Safety...
Members of 13 Hollywood locals of the IATSE have signed a new film and TV contract. The deal with management’s AMPTP will give 3% pay raises in each year of the three-year contract, “major...
View Article2015 Emmys: Mini-Series/Movie, Universal Breaks Domestic BO Record, Lawrence...
SSN EMMY COVERAGE Mini-Series/Movie Inside the Revolution: How Mini-Series and Made For TV Movies Boast an Intriguing Shared Legacy Over the years, no television formats have experienced more of a...
View ArticleTucker Tooley Wooed By the Weinsteins, MGM Nabs Hot YA Property, ABC Grabs...
The Weinstein Company Is In Talks to Hire Relativity’s Tucker Tooley as Its New COO Neither Relativity nor TWC would comment on the discussions, though a source close to Relativity said that Tooley is...
View ArticleFilm Development for 8/27/15: Jennifer Lawrence & Amy Schumer Co-Writing...
NEW ATTACHMENTS Emperor Logline: Explores the life of two young Romans–Gaius Julius Caesar and his blood-friend Marcus Junius Brutus. Studio/Distributor: Lionsgate’s Summit Ent. Production Company(s):...
View Article2015 Emmys: Creative Arts/Guest Performance, ‘Doctor Strange’ Wants Mads,...
SSN EMMY COVERAGE Creative Arts Awards/Guest Performance ‘Bessie’ Hairstylist Lawrence Davis Talks About Why He Didn’t ‘Iron Out the Kinks’ Any teacher sick of hearing the question, “When am I going to...
View Article‘Galaxy Quest’ TV Series Coming, Jon Hamm, Sam Worthington, Ruth Wilson,...
Beloved Cult Movie ‘Galaxy Quest’ Moves Forward as an Amazon TV Series The streaming outlet is partnering with producer Paramount Television on the project. Last April, Paramount was shopping a Galaxy...
View ArticleOn the Set for 8/28/15: Keegan-Michael Key Starts on ‘Don’t Think Twice’,...
STARTS Don’t Think Twice 8/26/2015 Logline: An improv group loses the lease on its home theater just as one of its members gets cast on TV’s biggest sketch-comedy show, resulting in backstabbing and...
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SSN Events Calendar: Emmys, TIFF, Venice Film Fest & TV Premieres All Collide...
As summer comes to a close and kids go back to school, the movie studios may put a pin in releasing their blockbusters but television goes into overdrive. Not only will the Emmys be broadcast on...
View Article2015 Emmys: Predictions, SSN Events Calendar, Steve Carell Joins Woody Allen...
SSN EMMY COVERAGE Predictions Want Some Ideas as To Who Might Be Winning Emmys Next Month? Here Is One List Of Predictions From Indiewire … Just about every major category gets a look here, with a pair...
View Article‘Compton’ Wins Again, Armie Hammer Is One Of Tom Ford’s ‘Animals’, Lee...
‘Straight Outta Compton’ Wins a Third Straight Week At the Box Office, Edges Out ‘War Room’ The N.W.A. biopic got $13.2 million for a total of $134.1million over 17 days. Meanwhile, Sony’s faith-based...
View ArticleExecutive Shuffle for 8/31/15: New $100 Mil. YooZoo Bliss Film Fund, Disney...
Company Launches & Partnerships China-based YooZoo Pictures has joined Bliss Media to form a $100 million equity YooZoo Bliss Film Fund for use on Chinese co-productions and films designed for...
View ArticlePen Densham on How to Create Roles Stars Want to Play, Exec Shuffle, Wes...
SSN ORIGINALS Screenwriter Toolkit: How to Create Complex Characters that Attract A-List Talent Pen Densham is an Oscar nominated filmmaker, with 16 features and over 300 hours of TV under his belt....
View ArticleApple Explores Original Content, Marvel Studios Now Answers To Horn,...
In What Should Be a Surprise To Absolutely No One, Apple Is Exploring Original Programming The moment the media and technology industries have been expecting for years may finally be arriving, as the...
View ArticleTV Development for 9/1/15: Jerry Bruckheimer TV Producing ‘Talk Nerdy to Me’,...
Untitled Alison Schapker/ Shondaland Project Network: ABC Entertainment Group Studio: ABC Studios Production Company(s): Shondaland Executive Producer(s): Alison Schapker, Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers...
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