The Gotham Group Signs First-Look Deal With ABC Studios

COMMENTS (9)

• The book guys always have the best material.

  There are several book lit managers in town that should have first look deals.

  They are a major overlooked resource by TV Studios especially.

  Comment by DoesHollywoodRead? — Friday July 27, 2012 @ 3:10pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Sweet. More opportunity for Gotham Group to prove just how ineffective they really are!

  Comment by Eric Draven — Friday July 27, 2012 @ 3:28pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Awesome! Gotham is a terrific company with great people!

  Comment by Insider — Friday July 27, 2012 @ 4:15pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Wasn’t Jennifer Aniston already in a movie called The Switch, or am I going completely mad?

  Comment by joshreader — Friday July 27, 2012 @ 5:29pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Wonder how the clients will feel about that.., that ABCS gets a first look at everything. And don’t fool yourself, you know Vein will shop everything there first and then elsewhere. Meaning all other buyers will know ABCS passed. She does it at Sony Animation, she just doesn’t tell the clients. I know first hand, she did it to me and I found out about it later. Gotham/Vein is complete baggage to all buyers.., and they know it. It is why studios hate Gotham projects as they try to attach themselves on all of them and render no services. ABCS is pissing away good money on much more deserving producers.

  Comment by MSO — Friday July 27, 2012 @ 6:13pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I worked at gotham for 2 years as an assistant and almost everything they set up was an original or something they optioned that there was no client involved in. they are all really cool and smart people with good taste. i wish them and abc the best.

  Comment by intheknow — Friday July 27, 2012 @ 7:16pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Hey it is really reassuring to know that the business is getting back into shape. When companies can afford to flush money down the drain by giving “producing” deals to struggling management companies it means that we can all hope for a robust return to business.

  Comment by Sperky — Friday July 27, 2012 @ 8:35pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I personally think EGV is awesome. It’s some of her middle management execs who are tools. Guys, you are just that — middle management — no one actually cares about your notes, no one cares about how you think you’re creative or some sort of producer. Unless you’re Bryan Grazer, you’re just someone who gets in the way of what directors and writers and actors are trying to do. Your friends back East aren’t impressed by your career, because they know that you’ve never sold a script, toplined a movie, helmed even a student film. You’re just people who get in the way and played the assistant game for years and gave notes that any monkey could have given.

  Know your role.

  Comment by lo — Saturday July 28, 2012 @ 9:49am PDT  Reply to this post

• Sure are a lot of dull folks out there with sharp knives. Hooray for Hollywood.

  Comment by R littman — Wednesday November 28, 2012 @ 5:35pm PST  Reply to this post