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Bond 23… Total Recall… The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo… the list of partnered movies keeps growing longer and longer between Sony Pictures and the reconstituted MGM:
LOS ANGELES, CA (May 18, 2011)- MGM will become a financial partner on the upcoming Sony Pictures Entertainment film 21 Jump Street, it was announced today by MGM Co-Chairmen and Chief Executive Officers Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum and Sony Pictures Chairman and CEO Michael Lynton and Co-Chairman Amy Pascal. Sony will handle marketing and distribution, while MGM will handle select international television licensing for the film.
21 Jump Street is part of the recently announced agreement between Sony and MGM to explore co-financing opportunities on future motion pictures produced by each of the respective studios for the next five years. They have most recently partnered on the highly anticipated Bond 23, set for worldwide release on November 9, 2012.
In recent years, the two studios have collaborated on numerous films, including Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, 21, Yours, Mine and Ours, The Pink Panther, and the summer tent pole Kevin James comedy Zookeeper, which opens nationwide on July 8, 2011.
21 Jump Street is based on the television series, which focused on young cops with youthful appearances who work undercover in high schools and colleges. The film is being directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, from a screenplay by Michael Bacall based on a treatment from Hill and Bacall. Neal H. Moritz will produce the film with Stephen J. Cannell, who will receive posthumous credit. The film is set to be released on March 16, 2012.
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Well, it looks like my so-called back end will have to go through yet another strainer. I was the sole author of the 21 Jump Street pilot and the executive producer and show-runner of the series for the first two seasons; I shared creative credit with Steve Cannell (RIP) as a courtesy, we were great friends back then. Whether you like the idea for a JS movie or not, it is amazing to me that a film would be made from a TV series that “allegedly” never made anyone a dollar — because if it did, I was supposed to get twenty cents. If the film does well, and it might, there’ll probably be another 21 Jump Street TV series; I hope I won’t have to fight too hard for my royalties. I’m proud that Jump Street is still a viable brand and that it helped start the FOX Network… I can still remember Barry Diller scratching his head and asking me what a jump street was… and I told him Jump was the of the street the undercover headquarters was on… in an abandoned church. I’m not sure he got it. The guys at FOX wanted to cast Josh Brolin instead of Depp… we fought hard against that one… and won.
Have you audited the network/studio?
Patrick- who was your agent who cut you such a great deal?
A crime thriller aimed at young people…that ALWAYS works. :-0 (Domino, The Mod Squad…)
I’d bet a million bucks that the pitch for this included the phrase “This show made Johnny Depp a star! The movie will launch the next Johnny Depp.”
But they forgot to include how Depp said he HATED the show, couldn’t wait to get off it and it’s what inspired him to take a completely different tack in his career, choosing offbeat roles, not teenybopper crap.
p.s. Patrick H., I hope you get your cash, you deserve it, but I’ll skip this movie. And so will millions more.
Domino got a 19% on Rotten Tomatoes. One of the worst scores in the past 10 years of a studio film directed by a big name (Tony Scott.)
The Mod Squad got FOUR percent, one of the worst scores I’ve ever seen, period. 49 negative reviews, 2 good ones. Those two were probably Peter Travers types.
It’s all about the script. Teen anything will do well if the script is good, and teen criminals or teen cops, they’re an easier sell than most scripts.
The show was awful and will never make a good movie, Truth-o-Moeter you are dead on. This is The Mod Squad and we all know that did well. Pass. Anonymous you are a bitter old writer that could not come up with a commercial on the Hub channel so you do not need to know who his agent was.
“Sony will handle marketing and distribution, while MGM will handle select international television licensing for the film.”
AKA
“Sony will pay for almost everything and MGM will get 10 cents on every dollar simply for having the James Bond franchise”.
The remake isn’t going to be a “crime thriller,” its going to be a comedy! As a comedy, i’m sure it will be a major success, especially considering the talented cast involved: Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Brie Larson, Ice Cube, etc. Plus they’re getting Depp to make a cameo!
I feel bad that Patrich Hasburgh has to post like this to make people aware of how criminal studio accounting is and has always been. Jump Street was seminal for having become the defining series for the fledgling Fox while also launching Johnny Depp’s career. But it’s also become an iconic shorthand for a cool, hip and youthful cop show… of which there still isn’t one on TV. For that, Patrick has left an indelible mark on culture even if he can’t get arrested creatively these days for having done so.
21 Jump Street, cool as it seems in retrospect because of Depp, had only a modest impact on FBC’s fortunes. What put us over the top, after a lot of spaghetti chucked at various walls (remember Down and Out in Beverly Hills?), was Married With Children.
Whenever I see the evil done by Fox News, I kinda wish that had crapped out too.
Well said Addie. Patrick was, and remains, an exceptionally talented writer…with a great sense of humor, both on the page and in life. Can’t help but feel they’re shortchanging themselves by doing this movie without his involvement on a creative level. Pretty dumb.
“[The] two studios have collaborated on numerous films, including Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, 21, Yours, Mine and Ours, The Pink Panther…”
Only 2 of those are actual collaborations. The rest were movies that MGM already had in production which, during the Sony Occupation of 2005, the Sony brass just marched in and announced “These are ours now.” Despite the fact that Sony was not a majority shareholder in the consortium which bought the studio, they made the decision to shutter MGM’s entire distribution, home video, and restoration divisions, claim ownership of movies they had no previous stake in launching or financing, and ultimately take all the box office revenue for themselves, until the other partners finally told Sony to step aside and let MGM actually make money for themselves. But by then the damage was already done.
No offense “I was There” but Garth Ancier would totally disagree with you. Jump Street kept the network afloat for the first two season, it was FOX’s highest rated show until the middle of its third season, when the very brilliant and deserving Married with Children became a breakout smash… and then of course the Simpsons caught fire. Garth always says, both publicly and privately, that Jump Street was FOX’s first hit.