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Global Showbiz Briefs: Jonathan Deckter Tops IM GLobal, Wild Bunch Distribution, ‘Nymphomaniac’ Campaign Heats Up

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Saturday, 4 May 2013 05:00 UKTags: BAFTA, Global Showbiz Briefs, Nymphomaniac, Wild Bunch Distribution

IM Global President Jonathan DeckterJonathan Deckter Named IM GLobal President
IM Global is heading to Cannes with a new president. Company CEO Stuart Ford has promoted Jonathan Deckter, a three-year veteran of the sales, financing and production outfit, just in time for the annual happenings on the Croisette. He was previously head of international sales and distribution. Elsewhere, IM Global also re-upped Bonnie Voland and her B. Voland company to oversee worldwide publicity and marketing and re-signed Tatyana Joffe as EVO International Sales.

Wild Bunch Names New Distribution Chief
France’s Wild Bunch Distribution has named the successor to chief Jean-Philippe Tirel who is stepping down to start his own acquisitions boutique. Former Pathé and Fox Searchlight exec Thierry Lacaze will take over leading the distributor backed up by the company’s existing team including Jérôme Rougier who runs acquisitions. The company has a slate of 22 films this year including official Cannes selection titles The Bastards from Claire Denis, La Vie D’Adèle from Abdellatif Kechiche and James Gray’s The Immigrant as well as Robert Rodriguez’ Machete Kills. Read More »

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Chip Rosenbloom, Dylan Ratigan Team With Andrew Jenks On Missouri Murder Docu

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday April 18, 2013 @ 7:01pm PDTTags: Andrew Jenks, Chip Rosenbloom, Dylan Ratigan

NEW YORK— APRIL 18, 2013— Award-winning producer, social justice advocate and co-owner of the St. Louis Rams, Chip Rosenbloom and NY Times best-selling author, entrepreneur and journalist, Dylan Ratigan are joining forces with award-winning director star and creator of MTV’s WORLD OF JENKS and author Andrew Jenks for an untitled documentary centered on the 2005 murder trial and controversial conviction, of college student Ryan Ferguson. Ferguson was convicted for the 2001 brutal assault and killing of Kent Heitholt, the popular sports editor for Missouri’s Columbia Daily Tribune. Ratigan and Rosenbloom will serve as producers on the project. Directed by Jenks, filming will begin immediately.

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Cannes Analysis: Veterans And Newcomers Mix It Up In Official Selection

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Thursday, 18 April 2013 18:23 UKTags: Behind The Candelabra, Cannes Film Festival, Nebraska

A lot of the buzz coming into today’s unveiling of the Cannes Film Festival’s 2013 Official Selection was spot on, although there were a handful of curveballs in the mix. One exec said to me after the announcement, “It’s a wise and balanced selection” that deals with the “eternal problem of how you recognize the talent of directors who are in a league of their own and deserve their spot, and how you open up to newcomers.” There’s a blend of the two this year with potentially more to come as further titles will be added once the Directors’ Fortnight and Critics’ Week sidebars announce their lineups Monday and Tuesday. As I noted last week, the studios will have a muted presence in Cannes. Warner Bros is represented with opener The Great Gatsby, and it was confirmed today that Paramount’s Alexander Payne pic Nebraska will run in Competition.

Related: Cannes: Full Lists Of The Festival’s 66th Official Selection

Payne’s black-and-white father/son drama had recently been tipped to head for the fall circuit, but instead fest chief Thierry Frémaux said today that he’d seen it “48 hours ago” and announced its inclusion. FilmNation is handling international. This is Payne’s second time to the big party after 2002’s About Schmidt (although he was in Un Certain Regard as part of omnibus Paris, Je T’Aime in 2006). In a widely expected move, Joel and Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis showed up on the Competition roster. They won the Palme d’Or in 1991 for Barton Fink. CBS Films picked up Llewyn Davis in February and StudioCanal, which financed, is selling international.

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A reluctant Steven Soderbergh was convinced by Frémaux to move to the Competition with Behind The Candelabra after originally saying he’d prefer another slot. Frémaux remarked today that Soderbergh is known for his particularly laconic emails and after the fest director wrote a diatribe on why he should accept a competition berth, Soderbergh responded by email with a simple “Yes.” It’s a nice bookend for Soderbergh, whose first film, Sex, Lies And Videotape, won the Palme d’Or in 1989 and since he has said Candelabra will be his last film before retirement. The movie debuts on HBO in late May and HBO Enterprises is selling overseas. Two films that were expected for the competition but ended up in official Out of Competition slots are Guillaume Canet’s ensemble drama Blood Ties and J.C. Chandor’s All Is Lost. The latter stars Robert Redford, who Frémaux confirmed would be in Cannes. That pic is getting an October 25 release in the U.S. via Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions. Read More »

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Cannes: Full Lists Of The Festival’s 66th Official Selection

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Thursday, 18 April 2013 12:08 UKTags: Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Wrap-Up

Below are the full lists as of today for the Official Selection titles that will make up the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. There were 1,858 submissions this year, with some even arriving as late as last night, according to fest chief Thierry Frémaux. As per norm, he will add some titles in the coming weeks:

Opening film: The Great Gatsby, dir: Baz Luhrmann
Closing film: Zulu, dir: Jérôme Salle

Competition
Only God Forgives, dir: Nicolas Winding-Refn
La Grande Bellezza, dir: Paolo Sorrentino
Behind The Candelabra, Steven Soderbergh
The Immigrant, dir: James Gray
Venus In Fur, dir: Roman Poalnski
Straw Shield, dir: Takashi Miike
Nebraska, dir: Alexander Payne
Jeune Et Jolie, dir: Francois Ozon
The Past, dir: Asghar Farhadi
Inside Llewyn Davis, dir: Joel & Ethan Coen
Jimmy P., dir: Arnaud Desplechin
Heli, dir: Amat Escalante
Grisgris, dir: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Like Father Like Son, dir: Hirokazu Kore-Eda
La Vie D’Adèle, dir: Abdellatif Kechiche
Borgman, dir: Alex Vann Warmerdam
A Touch Of Sin, dir: Zhangke Jia
Michael Kohlhaas, dir: Arnaud Despallières
Un Château En Italie, dir: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi

Out of Competition
Blood Ties, dir: Guillaume Canet
All Is Lost, dir: J.C. Chandor

Un Certain Regard
The Bling Ring, dir: Sofia Coppola (Opening film)
Omar, dir: Hany Abu-Assad
Death March, dir: Adolfo Alix, Jr
Fruitvale: dir: Ryan Coogler*
The Bastards, dir: Claire Denis
Norte, Hangganan Ng Kasaysayan, dir: Lav Diaz
As I Lay Dying, dir: James Franco
Miele, dir: Valeria Golino*
L’Inconnu Du Lac, dir: Alain Guiraudie
Bends, dir: Flora Lau*
L’Image Manquante, dir: Rithy Panh
La Jaula De Oro, dir: Diego Quemada-Diez*
Anonymous, dir: Mohammad Rasoulof
Sarah Préfère La Course, dir: Chloé Robichaud*
Grand Central, dir: Rebecca Zlotowski Read More »

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‘All Cops Are Bastards’ Helmer Stefano Sollima Takes Aim At ‘I.T.’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday February 4, 2013 @ 3:22pm PST
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Stefano SollimaEXCLUSIVE: Voltage Films and Friendly Films have set Stefano Sollima to direct the Dan Kay-scripted workplace revenge thriller I.T. Done in the vein of One Hour Photo and Fatal Attraction, the script pits a disgruntled I.T. consultant against his employer, as the consultant uses all the ins and outs of his technical expertise and inside information to torment the boss’s family. Sollima last year made his feature directing debut on the Italian film A.C.A.B: All Cops Are Bastards.

The film is produced by David Friendly, Craig J. Flores, Nicolas Chartier. Little Miss Sunshine producer Friendly hatched the idea and enlisted Kay to write it before bringing it to Voltage Pictures’ Flores and Chartier to produce and finance. They are now casting the two lead roles in hopes of getting underway this summer, with Voltage handling foreign sales on the film. Voltage is already in Berlin, after premiering two high profile films in Sundance, The Necessary Death Of Charlie Countryman and Don Jon’s Addiction. Read More »

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‘Greedy Lying Bastards’ Eco-Docu Set For March 8 Release

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday January 31, 2013 @ 3:20pm PST

EXCLUSIVE: One Earth Productions has announced a March 8 release date for Greedy Lying Bastards, a searing documentary about climate change. The filmmakers say the docu investigates the reasons behind stalled efforts to tackle climate change, despite consensus in the scientific community that it not only exists but is a growing problem moving us toward the brink of disaster. Focusing on the influence of Exxon and the Koch brothers, Greedy Lying Bastards features interviews with scientists, industry experts and international political delegates including UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and former EPA head Christine Todd Whitman, as well as people personally affected by the changing climate and global warming deniers. Greedy Lying Bastards opens in 20 cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington DC, San Francisco, Houston, Detroit, Seattle, Tampa, Miami, Denver, Phoenix, and San Diego. Directed by first-timer Craig Rosebraugh, the film is exec-produced by Daryl Hannah.

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Tribeca Film & Focus World Acquire ‘Greetings From Tim Buckley’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Monday December 10, 2012 @ 8:25am PSTTags: Jeff Buckley, Penn Badgley, Tribeca Film

EXCLUSIVE: Tribeca Film and Focus World have picked up Greetings From Tim Buckley, starring Gossip Girl’s Penn Badgley. Tribeca will release the Daniel Algrant-directed film theatrically next year, with the companies working together on VOD and other digital platforms. The film, which debuted at this year’s Toronto Film Festival, follows Jeff Buckley in the days leading up his 1991 tribute concert to his distant and now deceased father. Badgley plays the younger Buckley, who shot to fame in the 1990s before drowning in Tennessee’s Wolf River in 1997. Imogen Poots also stars. Algrant, Emma Sheanshang and David Brendel penned the screenplay; the Smuggler Films pic was produced by Patrick Milling Smith, John Hart, Amy Nauiokas and Fred Zollo. Tribeca Film’s director of acquisitions Nick Savva; and Focus’ EVP Strategic Planning, Business Affairs and Acquisitions Avy Eschenasy and Kent Sanderson, Director, Alternative Content & Distribution, negotiated the deal with CAA and Hengameh Panahi of Celluloid Dreams for the filmmakers. Greetings is the first of three Buckley films to be released: Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark’s Reeve Carney signed on last year for another Buckley biopic, and Mad Bastards director Brendan Fletcher is mounting is A Pure Drop, based on the book A Pure Drop: The Life Of Jeff Buckley.

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Salma Hayek, Silvio Horta & Mark Gordon Team For Latino Family Dramedy At ABC

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday December 6, 2012 @ 6:23pm PSTTags: Bastards, Mark Gordon, Salma Hayek, Silvio Horta
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EXCLUSIVE: Six years after the debut of Ugly Betty, two of the key auspices behind the successful dramedy are reuniting for another light drama at ABC and ABC Studios about a Latino family. In a last-minute buy, the network has put in development Bastards, from Ugly Betty executive producer Salma Hayek and the show’s creator/executive producer Silvio Horta. Completing the A-list team behind the show is producer Mark Gordon, who will also executive produce. Written by Horta, Bastards centers on a colorful Cuban-American family who have their lives turned upside down when it’s revealed that the family patriarch had a child with the family maid over 25 years ago. Now his wife will do anything to protect her children’s inheritance and prevent her family’s deep dark secrets from ever seeing the light of day.

Bastards originated with an idea by Hayek. She and Jose Tamez, her producing partner at their ABC-Studios based Ventanarosa, had been trying to tackle the premise for awhile and had teamed with Gordon’s Mark Gordon Prods., which also is under a deal at ABC Studios. Horta, who is of Cuban- American descent, recently received a call from Tamez and Mark Gordon Prods.’ drama executive Nicholas Pepper who was once Horta’s ABC executive on Ugly Betty. “I immediately sparked to the concept — it was fun and juicy and had the opportunity for both a lot of salacious situations and humor as well as a lot of heart and emotions, hitting that sweet spot I like to write,” Horta said. After some very fast deal-making, the team sold the project at ABC. Back in 2005, others had taken a stab at adapting the popular telenovela Ugly Betty for American audiences before Horta, but his version stuck. “I hope history will repeat itself,” he quipped. Horta, Hayek, Tamez, Gordon and Pepper are executive producing. Read More »

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Seth Gordon Sets Up Dramas At Fox & NBC

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday November 6, 2012 @ 11:04am PSTTags: Fox, NBC, Seth Gordon
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Horrible Bosses director Seth Gordon has set up two more hourlong projects, Run Black at Fox and Bar Scene at NBC. Both are produced by Sony Pictures TV, where Gordon and his Exhibit A are under an overall deal.

Run Black is being written by former Criminal Minds showrunner Simon Mirren, who also has a deal at Sony TV. It centers on a brilliant and dangerous prisoner who is given a chance to reduce his sentence when the FBI recruits him to partner up with a book-smart but painfully naive agent to infiltrate and dismantle a criminal empire on the outside. Mirren and Gordon executive produce, with Gordon possibly directing.

NBC’s Bar Scene, from writers/exec producers Chris Alberghini and Mike Chessler (90210), is based on the life of Jackie Davis, who is a series co-creator. It is about a team of misfit lawyers who start their own practice. Davis’ sister, Stephanie Davis, executive produces with Gordon and Jamie Tarses through her Sony TV-based Fanfare. Alberghnini and Chessler are repped by Paradigm. Read More »

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Fox Buys ‘Bastards’ Comedy From ‘Butter’ Writer, ‘Horrible Bosses’ Director & Sony TV

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday September 6, 2012 @ 4:40pm PDTTags: Bastards
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Bastards, a single-camera comedy from Jason Micallef, writer of the upcoming movie Butter, and Horrible Bosses director Seth Gordon, has sold to Fox. Micallef will pen the project, described as an unconventional family comedy about “a family who has never met.” Gordon is attached to direct. Sony TV, Jamie Tarses’ Fanfare and Underground are producing, with Tarses, Gordon, Micallef and Underground’s Trevor Engelson and Josh McGuire executive producing. This marks Gordon’s return to Fox where he co-created and executive produced the comedy Breaking In, also produced by Sony TV.

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UPDATE: Twitter Reinstates Suspended Account Of UK Journalist Critical Of NBC Olympics Coverage

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday July 31, 2012 @ 1:14pm PDTTags: NBC, Olympics, Twitter

UPDATE, 1:13 PM:Twitter has given journalist Guy Adams his account back today. “Oh. My Twitter account seems to have been un-suspended. Did I miss much while I was away,” The Independent reporter tweeted earlier today upon his return to the social media site. Twitter told Adams in a brief email that “the complainant retract(ed) their original request.” The journalist’s Twitter account was suddenly suspended Sunday after he let loose with a series of critiques of NBC’s Olympic coverage. In one tweet Adams gave followers the business email of NBC Sports boss Gary Zenkel if they wanted to complain about the network’s tape delayed and edited coverage of the London Games. NBC filed a complaint with Twitter saying that private information about one of their executives had been revealed. NBC and Twitter have an agreement for the social media site to act as the narrator of the Games. It seems that agreement is partially what caused the suspension. “The team working closely with NBC around our Olympics partnership did proactively identify a Tweet that was in violation of our Twitter Rules and encouraged them to file a support ticket with our Trust and Safety team to report the violation, as has now been reported publicly. Our Trust and Safety team did not know that part of the story and acted on the report as they would any other,” wrote Twitter General Counsel Alex Macgillivray today. “We will actively work to ensure this does not happen again,“ he added. Today NBC said, “our interest was in protecting our executive, not suspending the user from Twitter. We didn’t initially understand the repercussions of our complaint, but now that we do, we have rescinded it.”

PREVIOUS, MONDAY AM: The Twitter account of The Independent’s Guy Adams has been suspended for slamming NBC’s coverage of the Olympics and tweeting a network executive’s email address. “We filed a complaint with Twitter because a user tweeted the personal information of one of our executives. According to Twitter, this is a violation of their privacy policy. Twitter alone levies discipline”, NBC Sports said today. Adams, who was far from alone in going after NBC on Twitter for delaying the Opening Ceremony on Friday, published a tweet Friday that contained the work email address of Gary Zenkel, president of NBC Olympics. “The man responsible for NBC pretending the Olympics haven’t started yet is Gary Zenkel Tell him what u think!” said Adams’ tweet. The LA-based Adams saw his account go down Sunday. “My colleague @guyadams’ Twitter account was suspended after @NBC complained about his tweets criticizing the network’s #Olympics coverage,” tweeted The Independent’stech reporter Kevin Robinson today. Earlier on Friday, one of Adams’ tweets said, “I have 1000 channels on my TV. Not one will be showing the Olympics opening ceremony live. Because NBC are utter, utter bastards.”

Related: NBC Hammered Back Home For Not Airing Olympics Live Read More »

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Sound Editors Honor ‘Hugo,’ ‘War Horse’ Among Others At Golden Reel Awards

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday February 20, 2012 @ 8:38am PSTTags: Hugo, Motion Picture Sound Editors, War Horse

DreamWorks’ War Horse, Paramount’s Hugo, The Adventures Of Tintin and Super 8, and Disney’s The Muppets were among the winnners at the Motion Picture Sound Editors’ Golden Reel Awards, which honor the year’s best work in the areas of sound editing for dialogue & ADR, effects & foley and music for film and TV. The group held its awards ceremony last night at the Westin Bonaventure, where producer Gale Anne Hurd was honored with the 2012 MPSE Filmmaker Award and sound editor George Watters II was tapped a MPSE Career Achievement Recipient. War Horse won Best Sound Effects and Foley In a Feature Film, while Hugo took best music; both are nominated for Sound Editing at the Oscars. On the TV side, Showtime’s Homeland, AMC’s The Walking Dead and HBO’s Game Of Thrones were among the winners. Here’s the complete list: Read More »

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Spike TV Greenlights 3 Unscripted Series, Revives ‘World’s Wildest Police Videos’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday January 30, 2012 @ 9:12am PSTTags: Spike TV
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Spike TV is bringing back one-time Fox reality staple World’s Wildest Police Videos. The cable channel, which previously syndicated the show, has ordered 13 new episodes of the series, a compilation of outrageous police footage. Spike also has picked up three new original unscripted series: Full Bounty, a reality competition featuring aspiring bounty hunters, which has received a 10-epidode order; Tattoo Nightmares, chronicling the stories behind unfortunate tattoos and their owners’ attempts to have them fixed, which has been picked up for six episodes; and Rat Bastards, following a group of guys in Louisiana who hunt down giant swamp rats, which has been ordered also for six episodes. Additionally, Spike has greenlighted a two-part special, Urban Jungle Man. “These three new non-scripted shows share a theme of larger-than-life characters in extreme situations where the high stakes are real,” said Spike’s EVP original series Sharon Levy. “They are perfect complements to our upcoming launches of Big Easy Justice, American Digger and Diamond Divers, which have similar distinctive characters.” Here are descriptions of Spike’s newly ordered series: Read More »

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Sound Editors Give ‘Super 8′, ‘War Horse’, ‘Rise Of Planet Of Apes’ Most Nominations

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday January 20, 2012 @ 2:02am PSTTags: Motion Picture Sound Editors

The Motion Picture Sound Editors today announced their 2012 MPSE Golden Reel Award nominations which acknowledge the year’s best work in sound and music editing in motion pictures and television in various categories: Dialogue & ADR, Effects & Foley, and Music. ”The significance of sound should not be underestimated,” said MPSE president Bobbi Banks. “The emotional intimacy of the sound experience is amplified by giving the audience the perception that they are encountering the same state of cognitive consciousness as the characters.” The MPSE is honoring producer Gale Anne Hurd for the 2012 MPSE Filmmaker Award and sound designer/editor George Watters II for the MPSE Career Achievement Award. The 59th Golden Reel Awards will be held February 19th at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Downtown LA. Here are the 2012 nominations:

FEATURE FILMS CATEGORY
Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue, and ADR in an Animation Feature Film
The Adventures of Tintin
Cars 2
Kung Fu Panda 2
Puss in Boots
Rango
Rio
The Smurfs

Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue, ADR and Music in a Feature Documentary
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey
Cave of the Forgotten Dreams
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Lemmy
Pearl Jam Twenty

Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue and ADR in a Feature Foreign Language Film
1920. The World’s Most Important Battle
Circumstance
Tropa de Elite 2 (Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within)
The Flowers of War
In the Land of Blood and Honey
Sarah’s Key
The Skin I Live In

Best Sound Editing: Music in a Feature Film
Drive
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hop
Hugo
Priest
Super 8
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
The Tree of Life

Best Sound Editing: Music in a Musical Feature Film
Footloose
The Muppets
Perfect Age of Rock ‘n’ Roll
Pina

Best Sound Editing: Dialogue and ADR in a Feature Film
Abduction
The Help
Moneyball
Quarantine II: Terminal
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Super 8
War Horse
The Way

Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects and Foley in a Feature Film
Drive
Fast Five
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Super 8
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
War Horse
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NBC Enlists Betty White For Ratings Help: TCA

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday January 6, 2012 @ 11:20am PSTTags: Betty White, Betty White's Off Their Rockers, NBC

Diane Haithman is contributing to Deadline’s TCA coverage.

The troubled NBC network will be taking on more serious issues later in the day, but it kicked off its TCA sessions in Pasadena today with a breakfast with the ubiquitous Betty White, 89, who is adding to her work schedule on TV Land’s sitcom Hot In Cleveland by hosting and executive producing the new NBC reality show Betty White’s Off Their Rockers. The show is about the elder generation pulling pranks on unsuspecting members of the younger generation. It is adapted from the International Emmy-winning Belgium series Benidorm Bastards.

As usual, this popular member of TV’s least desirable demographic was full of quips, including this reply to a question about whether there’s anything the soon-to-be 90 actress still wants to do: “I’m not going to say Robert Redford, as much as you might expect it.” The network will celebrate White’s birthday with the previously announced 90-minute special January 16, Betty White’s 90th Birthday: A Tribute To America’s Golden Girl, followed by a sneak peak of Off Their Rockers at 9:30 PM. (The network today announced that Ellen DeGeneres, Morgan Freeman, Tina Fey and Carl Reiner are among those who have been added to the birthday salute roster, joining Mary Tyler Moore, Ed Asner and White’s fellow Hot In Cleveland cast members.) Read More »

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NBC Slates Betty White Birthday Special, ‘Off Their Rockers’ Preview

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday December 17, 2011 @ 10:43am PSTTags: Betty White, NBC, Off Their Rockers
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NBC has scheduled a two-hour Betty White block on January 16 from 8-10 PM, the night before the actress’ 90-th birthday. It will feature the 90-minute special Betty White’s 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America’s Golden Girl from 8-9:30 PM, followed by a sneak peak of White’s upcoming hidden-camera comedy series for NBC, Betty White’s Off Their Rockers, from 9:30-10 PM. Adapted from the International Emmy-winning Belgium series Benidorm Bastards, Off Their Rockers features host White sending a team of senior citizens to the streets to pull pranks on the younger generation. The series is yet to get a slot on NBC’s schedule. The birthday special will tape live at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Additionally, White’s TV Land sitcom Hot In Cleveland will feature an episode dedicated to White’s character’s milestone birthday.

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The Black List 2011: Screenplay Roster

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Monday December 12, 2011 @ 10:00am PSTTags: Hollywood screenplays, The Black List 2011

The Black List 2011: By Agencies
The Black List 2011: By Managers

A screenplay titled THE IMITATION GAME by Graham Moore, about British WWII cryptographer Alan Turing who cracked the German 2011 Black List ScreenplaysEnigma code and later poisoned himself after being criminally prosecuted for being a homosexual, tops 2011′s THE BLACK LIST. (I covered the screenplay sale here: Warner Bros Buys Spec Script For Leonardo DiCaprio.) Once again, Deadline Hollywood is first to post in its entirety THE BLACK LIST, which for the uninitiated is film executive Franklin Leonard’s hot unproduced screenplay pecking order which he began in 2004. Compiled every year from the suggestions of hundreds of film executives, each contributes the names of up to ten of their favorite scripts that were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with, 2011 and will not be released in theaters during this calendar year. THE BLACK LIST does catapult dozens of scripts into production and screenwriters out of oblivion. Diablo Cody’s Juno, Nancy Oliver’s Lars And The Real Girl, Scott Neustader’s and Michael Weber’s 500 Days Of Summer, are just some of the screenplays which appeared on The Black List and then were made. I’ve noticed that it’s also a “big dick” measuring contest for the Hollywood agencies and their motion picture lit departments. Problem is, some screenwriters think this list isn’t on the up-and-up and accuse junior studio execs and assistants along with self-interested agents and managers of getting together to push their own clients on projects even if already abandoned. Also, if you spot inaccuracies, take it up with Leonard: I do not alter his list. Anyway, climb off the ledge if you’re not on THE BLACK LIST. And, if you did make the cut, then congratulations:

The Black List was compiled from the suggestions of over 300 film executives, each of whom contributed the names of up to ten of their favorite scripts that were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with, 2011 and will not have begun principal photography during this calendar year.

This year, scripts had to receive at least six mentions to be included on the The Black List.

All reasonable effort has been made to confirm the information contained herein. The Black List apologizes for all misspellings, misattributions, incorrect representation identification, and questionable 2011 affiliations.

It has been said many times, but it’s worth repeating:

The Black List is not a “best of “ list. It is, at best, a “most liked” list.

Enjoy.

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THE IMITATION GAME by Graham Moore
The story of British WWII cryptographer Alan Turing, who cracked the German Enigma code and later poisoned himself after being criminally pros¬ecuted for being a homosexual..
AGENCY:  CAA
AGENT: JP Evans, Jacqueline Sacerio
MANAGEMENT:  The Safran Company
MANAGER:  Tom Drumm
FINANCIER:  Warner Brothers
PRODUCER: Ido Ostrowsky, Nora Grossman

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WHEN THE STREET LIGHTS GO ON by Chris Hutton, Eddie O’Keefe
In the early 1980s, a town suffers through the aftermath of a brutal murder of a high school girl and a teacher.
AGENCY: WME
AGENT: Simon Faber, Sarah Self
MANAGEMENT: Tariq Merhab Management
MANAGER: Tariq Merhab
PRODUCER: Imagine Entertainment

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CHEWIE by Evan Susser, Van Robichaux
A satirical behind the scenes look at the making of Star Wars through the eyes of Peter Mayhew who played Chewbacca.
AGENCY:  WME
AGENT: Mike Esola
MANAGEMENT: Industry Entertainment
MANAGER: Jess Rosenthal

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THE OUTSIDER by Andrew Baldwin
In post World War II Japan, an American former prisoner-of-war rises in the yakuza.
AGENCY: CAA
AGENT: Jay Baker, John Garvey
MANAGEMENT: Anonymous Content
MANAGER: Bard Dorros, David Kanter
FINANCIER: Warner Brothers
PRODUCER: Linson Entertainment

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FATHER DAUGHTER TIME: A TALE OF ARMED ROBBERY AND ESKIMO KISSES by Matthew Aldrich
A man goes on a three state crime spree with an accomplice, his eleven year old daughter.
AGENCY: CAA
AGENT: John Garvey, Stuart Manashil
MANAGEMENT: Silent R Management
MANAGER: Jewerl Ross
FINANCIER: Warner Brothers
PRODUCER: Pearl Street Productions

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Scribe Justin Malen Hired To Rewrite Sony Feature Comedy ‘The Manny’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday December 7, 2011 @ 7:35am PSTTags: Gary Sanchez, Red Wagon
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Justin Malen has been hired to rewrite The Manny for Gary Sanchez and Red Wagon at Sony. Malen is hot off his  script Bastards, which sold last summer to Paramount with Montecito & H2F producing. The Manny is an R-rated comedy about an unemployed (and soon-to-be homeless) recent college grad who, after exhausting all the normal ways of getting a job in the financial world, actually tries nannying his way into one. He figures that if he becomes the manny for the kid of a Wall Street magnate, it will lead to a real job. In the meantime, he’ll be getting paid to live like a prince on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. He’s repped by Verve.

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International Emmy Winners Announced

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday November 21, 2011 @ 8:21pm PST
Nellie Andreeva

British programs once again had a strong showing at the International Emmy Awards, winning 5 of the 10 categories during the ceremony tonight at the New York Hilton. Two unscripted series with U.S. remakes made the cut: Belgium’s hidden-camera series Benidorm Bastards, whose U.S. version Off Their Rockers starring Betty White is on tap for mideason at NBC, won for best comedy. The British reality show The World’s Strictest Parents, which was awarded best non-scripted entertainment program, has an U.S. remake of the same name airing on TLC and occasionally on MTV. And Sweden’s Millennium mini-series, which won for best TV movie/mini-series, is an extension to Stieg Larsson’s Millennium feature series, which is being remade in the U.S., starting with David Fincher’s upcoming The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. The BBC One anthology drama series Accused was the only multiple winner with statuettes for best drama series and best actor, Christopher Eccleston. UK company Twenty Twenty also nabbed 2 wins, for arts programming and non-scripted entertainment. Chile won its first ever International Emmy in the children and young people category. And reality producer Niger Lythgoe received the International Emmy Founders Award, presented to him by Lady Gaga. Read More »

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