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James L. Brooks’ Gracie Films has made a mid six-figure preemptive deal for Besties, a spec script by Kelly Fremon. Part of the deal is she’s attached to make her directing debut. The script is a John Hughes-style comedy about two high school girls who are best friends until one dates the other’s older brother, who is totally his sister’s nemesis. Brooks was the first person the script got sent to, and he’s expected to mentor Fremon as she makes the jump to director. Gracie made the buy, but the company’s films go through Sony Pictures. Brooks will produce with Julie Ansell.
As a writer, Fremon has one produced feature credit, the 2009 Fox Searchlight comedy Post Grad. She has also written The Good Life, another script for Searchlight, and The Best Mistakes for Level 1. On the small screen, Fremon wrote the pilot Lovehamption for the CW and Alloy Entertainment and she’s working on a pilot script with CBS Television Studios and Samuel L. Jackson’s Uppity TV banner. ICM and Kaplan Perrone made the deal.
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Maybe the hottest (physically) writer in the industry. My god.
You’d be surprised how many hot female writers are out there. I just had a general with a hot brunette the other day… “Hot and can write” is no longer a unicorn.
Someone at DHD is in love with this woman. The article keeps growing and their have been 2 photos of her already. Get some dhd!
Um, she’s hot.
way too hot for a writer.
wowzers! She’s hot!
Good Lord, I’m chiming in just to celebrate the fact that a young writer is moving to the director’s chair and NOT comment on her looks. I’ll also say it’s always nice to add to the ranks of female directors, but really, all comments related to how she looks so far? Congratulations to her for a big sale and making the jump to directing.
Kelly, you are gorgeous!
Please, marry me?
Her beauty helps her no doubt but what about her writing? Are people falling in love with her beauty in person and then accepting her written work which might not be as good as her looks with false praise and deals in comparison to another woman who might not be as facially attractive? If so then this proves good looks are all that matter. I’d like to know if Jim Brooks met her in person before he read her script? Did she sell all her projects after pitching them first face to face? Or perhaps she’s a truly gifted writer if that’s the case she’s doubly blessed.
Congratulations to what’s-her-name for her success.
NOW can I comment on her amazing looks??
I’m sure she is really talented;)
Kathryn Bigelow is hot too – maybe she will follow in her footsteps?
And I’m sure had this script been written by a forty something man, it would have had the exact same success.
Glad to see a no name writer get some pub.
+1
Last time I checked scripts didn’t go out with pictures of their writers. Deal with it.
The first thing you do when you get a script with a name you don’t recognize is Google it.
Please don’t tell me that I have the most embarrassing looking kid with my same name on Facebook and the most embarrassing college profile article written about me where I sound like such a complete douche bag.
Kaplan/Perrone are on fire.
Yes, because forty-something men are the most under-represented group in Hollywood!
Non hot women don’t get work. What else is new.
All that and brains too. In the words of Napoleon Dynamite…”Sweet.”
Who is Kaplan/perrone
Q: “Who is Kaplan/perrone?”
A: They are two phenomenally talented managers that will never rep a moron like you…
q: “Who is Kaplan/perrone”
a: apparently, some manager chicks (or dudes, not sure) who feel the need to protect themselves with words like “phenomenally talented”…
(don’t fret, Stan; you’re not alone)
All this talk about her being so hot…she should just turn on the air conditioner.
that’s funny i like that
You’re fired.
Does your mom know you’re at the computer, not being funny?
Postgrad was pretty darn awful and her commentary on the DVD suggests that she gets by on her looks. Which says more about the men in the industry than anything else. Her commentary did not make her seem likable one bit and had me wonder where she got her strong sense of entitelment.
Why would any woman want to work w the ugly men in the entertainment biz. Yeeeeccchh.
Creepy. Slime. Dirtbags. Yeeeccch.
Didn’t “Post Grad” make a ton of the worst of the year lists?
We all know, no matter what the industry, that beauty and charm go a long way, but lets hope they don’t outweigh talent and performance.
Good luck Miss Fremon.
Wow, you have very low standards for beauty. This is just another blonde who can be confused with thousands of other blondes. Not ugly, kind of pretty, but not different or exotic or hot in any way.
What is wrong with you people?
When is James L Brooks going to go away. He is a big money loser for Sony. Somepeople don’t know when to leave the party. He is out of touch.,