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Rep Moves For 4/18/14: Gersh, APA, UTA, WME
Agencies APA: Writer, director and producer Mary Harron is now repped by William Lowery, Debbie Deuble, Jack Leighton and Sheryl Petersen. A former reporter on the punk rock scene, Harron began her...
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ICYMI: SSN’s Top Original Stories For 4/14 – 4/18/14
New & Noteworthy Spring 2014 – The People, Places & Things to Put on Your Radar Since last spring, we’ve brought you SSN’s New & Noteworthy list, a carefully curated rundown of the people,...
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TV Development For 4/22/14: Christopher Vane’s ‘Impastor’ Set For TV Land
Impastor Network: TV Land Studio: CBS Television Studios Production Company: Tannenbaum Company Executive Producers: Christopher Vane, Eric Tannenbaum, Kim Haswell-Tannenbaum Writer: Christopher Vane...
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TV Castings For 4/23/14: First Lady Michelle Obama to Guest on ABC’s...
Pilots Aaron McCusker and Bret Harrison join ABC’s The Astronaut Wives Club, that tells the true story of the women behind NASA’s early astronauts and the struggles they face when their lives and...
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Scarlett Johansson, Lupita Nyong’o Eying Disney’s Jungle Book, News Corp And...
Scarlett Johansson, Lupita Nyong'o Eying Disney's Jungle Book Jon Favreau is directing the live-action/CG hybrid adaptation of the Rudyard Kipling tale. (THR) News Corp And Facebook To Launch News...
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Film Development For 4/24/14: Steven Spielberg & Tom Hanks Attached to...
NEW ATTACHMENTS Dirty White Boys Logline: Three dangerous criminals escape prison and are chased down by a crooked cop. Studio/Distributor: 20th Century Fox Producers: David Benioff, D.B. Weiss...
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Stripping Down Lena Dunham’s Emmy Chances, Spotlight: Bad Teacher’s Hilary...
SSN ORIGINALS Stripping Down Lena Dunham's Emmy Chances Of Dunham’s seven honors, she has parlayed precisely zero of them into victories. Ray Richmond ponders why that is. (SSN) Spotlight: Bad...
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Exec Shuffle For 4/25/14: Lionsgate, Universal Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer...
Company Launches Elara Pictures: Filmmaking duo Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie are launching this new production banner alongside partners Sebastian Bear-McClard and Oscar Boyson. The banner plans to...
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Rep Moves For 4/25/14: CAA, Abrams Artists Agency, Paradigm, Resolution, Verve
Agencies Abrams Artists Agency: Actress Alexis Dziena is now repped by Marni Rosenzweig. Dziena will soon be seen in the feature Without Ward, directed by Cory Cataldo. Making her television debut on...
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ICYMI: SSN’s Top Original Stories For 4/21 – 4/25/14
2014 SSN Summer Movie Preview Part One: The Tentpoles With so many movies coming out between the first weekend of May and Labor Day, we thought the best way to give you a proper preview was to break it...
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TV Development For 4/29/14: John Singleton’s ‘Snowfall’ Set For Showtime,...
Pharaoh Network: HBO Studio: Universal Television Production Company: Scott Free Productions Executive Producers: David Schulner, Ridley Scott, Colet Abedi, Giannina Facio, David Zucker Writer: David...
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TV Castings For 4/30/14: Sarah Silverman Joining Showtime’s ‘Masters of Sex’
Pilots Joel Johnstone and Kenneth Mitchell have been cast in ABC’s The Astronaut Wives Club, the true story of the women behind NASA’s early astronauts and the struggles they face when their lives and...
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Film Development For 5/1/14: Cary Fukunaga Set To Write-Direct ‘The Black...
NEW ATTACHMENTS The Longest Night Logline: The story of a true-life Coast Guard rescue operation on Easter Sunday in 2008 when a trawler sank 180 miles off the Alaskan coast in freezing waters that...
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Exec Shuffle For 5/1/14: Elzer & Associates, Harpo Films, Resolution, A&E...
Company Launches Be for Films: Films Distribution sales agent Pamela Leu has launched this film sales company in Brussels, Belgium. It is currently the only full-fledged sales company based within...
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Rep Moves For 5/1/14: UTA, Innovative Artists, CAA, WME
Agencies CAA: Actress Dakota Fanning is now repped by Jeremy Plager, Kim Hodgert and Michael Kives. Fanning most recently appeared in the features Very Good Girls, The Motel Life and The Twilight Saga:...
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ICYMI: SSN’s Top Original Stories For 4/28 – 5/2/14
Film Source Material Part One: Why Intellectual Properties Outpace Originals What used to be a majority of films created from original concepts and stories has turned into a majority of films based on...
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On The Set For 5/5/14: Hugh Jackman Starrer ‘Pan’ Starts For Warner Bros.,...
Starts Max Steel 04/29/2014 Logline: A 16-year-old extreme sports enthusiast is recruited by a secret agency after nanobot technology leaves him with superhuman abilities. Production Companies:...
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TV Development For 5/6/14: Spike Lee To Write & Direct ‘She’s Gotta Have It’...
She’s Gotta Have It Network: Showtime Writer: Spike Lee Director: Spike Lee Logline: A new, contemporary look at the characters from the film offering Lee's points of view about race, gender,...
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Economic Effect of Beverly Hills Hotel Boycott, Tom Rothman’s TriStar...
Economic Effect of Beverly Hills Hotel Boycott An exodus due to anti-gay owner the Sultan of Brunei reveals "shockingly few" alternatives as events scramble for space and the hotel stands to lose...
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TV Castings For 5/7/14: Michael McKeon Joins AMC’s Better Call Saul, Ray...
Pilots Michael McKeon joins AMC’s Better Call Saul, a prequel to Breaking Bad that follows an unflappable criminal lawyer. Alex Roe, Chanel Celaya and Sofia Mattsson have been cast in ABC Family’s...
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