Sacha Baron Cohen Pitching Studios On Laugher With ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Trio

COMMENTS (9)

• the crap factory turns it up a notch.

  ugh.

  Comment by mombo — Wednesday April 21, 2010 @ 1:43pm EDT  Reply to this post

• The TV-pitch process is set up to fail. If I was spending stockholder funds on TV shows I would ask anyone pitching me this question: all the show can do is maintain loyalty AFTER it is sampled so, before you tell me how great yours is and since consumers have, literally, millions of options to choose from, how are you going to make me confident that it will generate high levels of sampling? (And don’t tell me that’s not your job since getting sampling is the first step in the process and the existing promotional strategy doesn’t work, which is the primary reason thata content fails.)

  Comment by FutureOfContent — Wednesday April 21, 2010 @ 1:49pm EDT  Reply to this post

• No kidding. They are responsible for EuroTrip AND The Cat in the Hat!! WOW!! They sure sound like great filmmakers. Did they also have anything to do with Furry Vengeance? That would just make it too good.

  Comment by LOL — Wednesday April 21, 2010 @ 2:01pm EDT  Reply to this post

• Love how SECRETIVE the log line is! As if someone can rip it off and make a film like Sacha does? Oh Hollywood, its so cute how seriously you take yourself when the rest of the world could give two _____. DANCE FOR ME ENTERTAINER – DANCE!

  I’m sure a studio will bite on this project and it will make a ton of $$ at box office and after – I mean – who else in this town makes comedy outside of Sandler, Apatow, and Todd Phillips? That’s right – you guessed it kids – NO ONE. Plus Sacha is a masterful marketer that does the studios work for them – he’s worth every cent at this stage in the game – not sure about the other three hacks though.

  Comment by M — Wednesday April 21, 2010 @ 2:28pm EDT  Reply to this post

• Berg, Mandel, and Schaffer are crazy talented. Their produced feature credits aren’t great, but those of us who actually work in this business know feature credits don’t tell your whole story.

  I mean, these guys basically ran Seinfeld before they were 30. Now they run Curb with Larry David. Schaffer writes and directs every episode of the FX Series The League.

  All that being said, since when is going out with a pitch news?

  Comment by Andrew — Wednesday April 21, 2010 @ 5:35pm EDT  Reply to this post

• What is wrong with you people? SBC is hands down the most original voice in comedy over the last ten years. Mandel, Berg, and Schaffer are responsible for some of the very best, most famous Seinfeld episodes, and have a major hand in Curb, which is currently the best comedy on TV. So much jealously, my god…

  Comment by dan — Wednesday April 21, 2010 @ 5:40pm EDT  Reply to this post

• I thought Eurotrip was hilarious. Bruno as well. This could be sidesplitting. Or totally flop. These guys take big risks. Cat in the Hat stunk. But most of their stuff was hilarious.

  Comment by whiskey — Wednesday April 21, 2010 @ 8:20pm EDT  Reply to this post

• Berg, Schafer and Mandel are talented as is Sacha, but to buy this pitch (whatever it is) will cost a studio MILLIONS, and as much as i would like to see a studio buy this, it’s not likely to happen. Studios just dont want to take the risk. Then again Universal did buy Diablo Cody’s non-take on SWEET VALLEY HIGH for $4 million.

  Comment by dvelopment — Wednesday April 21, 2010 @ 10:45pm EDT  Reply to this post

• I heard during one of the pitches, someone smeared pen ink all over the head of the studio’s hands… That can’t be good for business.

  Comment by In the know... — Thursday April 22, 2010 @ 12:56am EDT  Reply to this post