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‘All My Children’ & ‘One Life To Live’ Change Air Pattern To Two Episodes A Week Each

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday May 16, 2013 @ 10:30am PDTTags: All My Children, One Life to Live, Prospect park
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Three weeks into the re-launch of soaps All My Children and One Life To Live online, I’ve learned that producer Prospect Park is adjusting their release schedule to two new original episodes each week instead of four as it is now. Starting next Monday, fresh episodes of All My Children will be uploaded on Monday and Wednesday, and new episodes of One Life To Live on Tuesday and Thursday. (Friday will continue to be day for recaps, which will now run as a single show). I hear Prospect Park has started to notify producers and have obtained a letter by the company’s principals Rich Frank and Jeff Kwatinetz to fans about the change (read it below).

Related: ‘All My Children’ & ‘One Life To Live’ Top Digital Streaming Charts

I hear the decision to reduce the number of new episodes a week was made after Prospect Park studied the data for the first 2.5 weeks of viewing. On traditional TV, soap fans come in and out of their favorite shows, usually watching 2-3 shows a week. But because all aired episodes of AMC and OLTL are available online, viewers don’t rush to watch them right away and then try to see what they missed at once, leading to binge viewing. While that is not a problem for shows like Breaking Bad, Homeland and House Of Cards, which offer 13-episode seasons, catching up on four new episodes of both soaps proved difficult for online viewers, many of whom have already fallen behind. To accommodate them, Prospect Park will keep all aired episodes of AMC and OLTL on the free Hulu platform for now, instead of migrating the older ones to Hulu Plus with only the 10 most recent segments available for free. The decision was made to make the viewing load more manageable before fans start giving up. Read More »

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BOSTON MANHUNT ENDS: TV’s Live Coverage

By NIKKI FINKE AND DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday April 19, 2013 @ 4:35pm PDTTags: Boston bombings, Boston manhunt, Boston TV coverage

BREAKING 5:42 PM… REFRESH FOR LATEST: The TV news channels reported simultaneously “the suspect is in custody” just minutes before the Boston Police tweeted confirmatin. News crews on the scene said police and residents broke into spontaneous applause. In summary the news networks did a responsible and accurate job covering the 23-hour manhunt for the 19-year-old Boston Marathon suspect and his dead older brother. TV anchors are quoting Boston police as saying Suspect #2 is alive and has unspecified medical needs. “It is the end,” simply summed up CNN’s Anderson Cooper.

UPDATE 4:30 PM: Primetime is already abandoned on the East Coast. Because what may be the incredibly dramatic finish to the Boston bombing Suspect #2 manhunt is playing out live on broadcast and cable TV right now. But, once again, the Boston Globe got the major scoop. The nets are quoting the newspaper as reporting, “Suspect is pinned down”. Specifically a massive police presence has him cornered in a residential Watertown neighborhood in what is being called a standoff between authorities and the wounded suspect who reportedly has been hiding in a boat in someone’s backyard. In terms of the TV coverage, ABC cut to the police action and to Diane Sawyer first. CBS stayed with its syndicated programming Judge Judy before cutting to WBZ Boston a few minutes later. NBC stayed with the syndicated Ellen show until shifting over to MSNBC news and then Brian Williams. But right after a technical mishap ensued and voices could be heard saying, “You’re not listening? We don’t know. We don’t know shit.” The feed was swiftly cut – and Williams quickly came back on air to apologize for the four-letter word. CNN was first to alert viewers to gunshots in Watertown – and immediately all the news channels switched to coverage of the swarming police cars coming from everywhere. Fox News was first to report “Suspect is down” which wasn’t entirely accurate. The 19-year-old has not been captured and he has not been killed: he is hunkered down in the boat and refusing to come out. meanwhile, the Boston area lockdown was ordered back on.

PREVIOUSLY, 3:28 PM: The Boston area lockdown is lifted – so tonight’s movie-going should proceed as normal. The transit system is also now open and working again as well but citizens should remain “vigilant,” Gov. Deval Patrick announced at a press conference just now. All the networks broke into their resumed regular scheduled programming briefly to cover the press conference. However, despite the lockdown being lifted, major sporting events and the Boston Comic-Con remain postponed as Deadline reported before.

PREVIOUSLY, 12: 25PM: ABC and NBC cut away from Diane Sawyer and Brian Williams’ coverage of the Boston manhunt to go to local news today at noon. The local stations were covering the situation in Boston themselves. CBS, which had cut away to air The Price Is Right at 10 AM, continued their resumption of a network special report that came back on the air at 11 AM. As the lockdown in Boston continues through the day and mass transit has been shut down, sporting events are being postponed. “Tonight’s Bruins/Penguins game has been postponed and tentatively rescheduled for 4/20 at 12:30 p.m,” tweeted the Boston Bruins at 12:19 PM PT. This comes as the team’s last game on Monday was cancelled and the team pulled the plug on their practice this morning. The Red Sox will also not be playing tonight. “Tonight’s Red Sox game at Fenway Park scheduled for 7:10pm has been postponed to support efforts of law enforcement officers,” the team tweetedat noon Friday. The Boston Comic-Con has also been postponed as well as all events at the Hynes Convention Center have been suspended. The April 20 to 21 event was expected to attract 6,000 visitors. The Walking Dead’s Laurie Holden and Lauren Cohan were among the celebrity guest scheduled to appear at the Comic-Con this weekend. Organizers say the event will be rescheduled “in the not too distant future.” 

PREVIOUSLY, 10:02 AM: CBS cut away at 10 AM from its special coverage of the manhunt in Boston to go back to its regular scheduled programming of The Price Is Right. Both ABC and NBC have stayed on the search in Boston. 

PREVIOUSLY, 9:29 AM: As the manhunt continues in Boston, ABC, NBC and CBS are staying on continuous coverage and pre-empting any regular scheduled morning programming. CBS say that anchor Scott Pelley will be hosting a primetime CBS News Special Report: Boston Bombers tonight from 9 to 10 PM ET in the slot where the drama Vegas usually airs. As it has several times this week, CBS will be broadcasting a one-hour version of the CBS Evening News. ABC will also have a one-hour expanded version of ABC World News and a special edition of 20/20 from live from Boston at 10 PM tonight in the newsmagazine’s regular slot and live coverage into the AM with Nightline. Tonight’s regularly scheduled Rock Center With Brian Williams will now be live from Boston at 10PM. The NBC Nightly News, which Williams has been hosting from Boston for most of the week, will be expanded to an hour again tonight.
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Spike TV Unveils Unscripted Development Slate That Includes Projects With Graham Elliot, Adam Carolla & Jon Taffer

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday April 15, 2013 @ 2:00pm PDTTags: Spike TV
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Spike TV has announced its 2013 development slate that features unscripted projects starring Graham Elliot, Adam Carolla, and Bar Rescue’s Jon Taffer that tackle such topics as shoddy contractors and auto body shop mechanics, underground restaurants, small company acquisitions, money lending and negligent homeowners and hail from Eyeworks USA, Shine America, Thinkfactory, THE Co., Stone & Co., Matador, and Left/Right Prods. The new projects are designed to capitalize on the recent success of Ink Master, Tattoo Nightmares and Bar Rescue, said  Spike TV’s EVP original series Sharon Levy. “They all share high stakes, smart edge and credible, charismatic TV personalities.” All of the shows also target the adult 18-49 demographics. Originally focused on males 18-34, Spike TV in the past couple of years had focused on expanding its reach to the older range of the 18-49 spectrum, while holding onto its young viewers. The network’s median age is now 40 for original series. In addition to its unscripted efforts, Spike TV is making a big push in scripted, looking to re-enter the space. Here are descriptions of Spike’s reality development slate:

TO CATCH A CONTRACTOR
Adam Carolla is not just a renowned television, radio, and internet personality with one of the most-downloaded podcasts in the world, he is also a passionate, knowledgeable construction expert. In this pilot, Carolla serves as a vigilant watchdog to homeowners or businesses who have been cheated by a contractor and left with an unfinished disaster. Carolla, along with no-nonsense contractor Skip Bedell, hunts down the shoddy builder and gets retribution for the owner by making them fix the disaster and finish the job. Eyeworks USA created the pilot for Spike TV.  Executive Producers for Eyeworks USA are JD Roth, Todd A. Nelson, DJ Nurre, and Kevin Harris. Read More »

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‘I, Frankenstein’ 3D Release Set For January 24, 2014

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday April 8, 2013 @ 6:49pm PDTTags: I Frankenstein, Lionsgate

Lionsgate announced today that it will release Hopscotch Features/Lakeshore Entertainment‘s I, Frankenstein in 3D on January 24, 2014. The pic will go up against Open Road Films’ action thriller Ten. I, Frankenstein is set in a dystopic present where vigilant gargoyles and ferocious demons rage in a battle for ultimate power and Victor Frankenstein’s (Aden Young) creation Adam (Aaron Eckhart) finds himself caught in the middle as both sides race to discover the secret to his immortality. Stuart Beattie wrote and directed the pic that’s based on the graphic novel I, Frankenstein by Kevin Grevioux. The cast also includes Bill Nighy, Yvonne Strahovski, Miranda Otto, Jai Courtney, Socratis Otto, Mahesh Jadu, and Caitlin Stasey.

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Global Showbiz Briefs: Silvio Berlusconi, Nicholas Hytner, India Channel Crunch, ‘Vigilante’ Launched

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday March 8, 2013 @ 12:01am PSTTags: 'Vigilante: Speak For The Dead', Global Showbiz Briefs, India, Silvio Berlusconi, Sir Nicholas Hytner

Silvio Berlusconi To Appeal Wiretap Verdict
Italian media mogul and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was handed a one-year jail term today by an Italian court over an illegal wiretap. It’s highly unlikely the Mediaset chief will do any time as he has appeals available to him and, under Italian law, isn’t expected to go to prison until all appeal attempts are exhausted. Berlusconi is already appealing a four-year sentence that was handed to him in Milan last year over fraud on movie rights deals. Today’s punishment comes for making public the taped contents of a confidential phone call in a case related to a 2005 banking scandal, Reuters reported. Berlusconi has oft been in court before over his business dealings, but he’s always been cleared or seen the statute of limitations expire.
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Tribeca Film Festival Unveils Spotlight, Midnight, Special Screenings And New Storyscapes Lineup

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday March 6, 2013 @ 11:00am PSTTags: Tribeca Film Festival

The 2013 Tribeca Film Festival has announced the second half of its slate for the 12th edition of its festival set for April 17 to April 28 in New York City. The Spotlight section features 33 films – 21 narratives and 12 documentaries. Twenty-three of those films will have their world premieres at the festival. The Midnight section will open with Dark Touch. Special screenings this year include the reintroduction of the Restored/Rediscovered program with Charles Lane’s Sidewalk Stories and a special screening of Alberi by Michaelangelo Frammartino. New to this year’s festival is Storyscapes. The multi-platform transmedia program celebrates new trends in digital media and recognizes filmmakers and content creators who employ an interactive, web-based or cross-platform approach to story creation. Storyscapes will present five selections at a public, interactive installation at the Bombay Sapphire House of Imagination beginning April 19th and running through the 21st. The short film program will be announced the week of March 11. The complete list of films and projects follows: Read More »

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Dish Network (Sort Of) Wins Breach Of Contract Case Against ESPN

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Thursday February 28, 2013 @ 5:45pm ESTTags: Dish Network, ESPN

This was the judicial equivalent of damning with faint praise. In a breach of contract suit in New York, a federal jury unanimously agreed today with one of Dish Network‘s four claims against ESPN. It required the Disney-owned network to pay Dish $4.86M — a mere 3.2% of the $153M in damages that the satellite company wanted. The case revolved around an 8-year programming agreement that Dish and ESPN made in 2005. It included what’s known as a most-favored-nation clause: If ESPN gave a better deal to another distributor, then it had to extend the same terms to Dish. The satellite company said that ESPN violated the terms in 2009 when it allowed Comcast to carry ESPN Classic on a special tier composed of little-watched channels, and let DirecTV do the same with Spanish-language ESPN Deportes. Dish later also said that Time Warner Cable, Verizon, and AT&T had better terms with ESPN. The jury only agreed with the claim involving ESPN Deportes. Dish and other pay TV distributors have a long-running love/hate relationship with ESPN. They consider it a must-have channel, but resent the high cost. ESPN costs an average of $5.54 per subscriber per month, according to SNL Kagan, while ESPN 3D is $2.79, ESPN2 is 69 cents, and ESPNews, ESPN Classic, ESPNU, and ESPN Deportes each cost about 20 cents. “To deliver the best programming at the best value to our customers, DISH will remain vigilant … Read More »

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James Murdoch Says News Corp Will Be Vigilant About Sports Costs

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Monday February 25, 2013 @ 4:46pm ESTTags: James Murdoch, News Corp, Sports, YES Network

Looks like News Corp’s trying to boost the Deputy COO’s profile on Wall Street: James Murdoch’s appearance today at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference was his second high-profile presentation to investors this month. (He was also on News Corp’s latest earnings call.) Rupert’s son, who last year had to defend himself against allegations that he was at least partly responsible for News Corp’s UK hacking and bribery scandals, seemed to relish the largely friendly questions about the company’s plans. He assured the audience that the company won’t go overboard in buying rights to sports programming amid reports that News Corp plans to create a national sports network. “It’s important to have a portfolio of rights where you can walk away,” Murdoch says. For example, the Los Angeles Dodgers wanted payments that were “too rich for us,” leading the team to create its own regional sports channel. Read More »

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Globe Contender ‘Boardwalk Empire’s Season 3 Resurgence

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday January 12, 2013 @ 8:00pm PSTTags: Boardwalk Empire, Golden Globe Awards, HBO, Steve Buscemi, Terence Winter

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Rusty-voiced, sweet-natured, a tin mask covering up his facial World War I wound, Richard Harrow, as played flawlessly by Jack Huston, is the type of vigilante one might find in a DC Comic book, warts and all. But in HBO’s 1920s epic Boardwalk Empire, he’s a supporting character that creator Terence Winter and his writers transformed from late gangster Jimmy Darmody’s trusted sharpshooter into a human being. For the bulk of this season, Harrow refrained from killing off any bad guys as he wooed a war veteran’s daughter and acted as the surrogate father to Darmody’s orphaned son, Tommy. “Richard knows how to kill. He doesn’t do it well; he does it great,” says Huston about Harrow, who even puts fear in lead Atlantic City kingpin Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) “I reminded Terry that I was getting an itchy finger, and he said, ‘Just wait.’ ”  Read More »

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Fox Sets Premiere Date For Animated Late-Night Block

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday January 8, 2013 @ 10:03am PSTTags: Animation Domination High-Def, Fox, TCA

Animation Domination High-Def will debut Saturday, July 27 and run from 11 PM-12:30 AM, Fox announced today as part of its portion of the TCA winter tour in Pasadena. The alternative animated programming block will feature quarter-hour series Axe Cop, High School USA! and the untitled Lucas Brothers project. Six quarter hours have been ordered for the series, the on-air component of Fox’s digital animation network, which encompasses online, mobile apps, game consoles and VOD and acts as an incubator for animated fare that can transition to the network. Here are Fox’s descriptions of the shows: Read More »

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National Film Registry List: ‘A Christmas Story’, ‘Breakfast At Tiffany’s', ‘Slacker’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday December 19, 2012 @ 12:28am PST

The Library of Congress has unveiled its annual list of 25 films that will join the National Film Registry. The movies span from 1897-1999 and were selected for their “important cultural, artistic and historic achievements in filmmaking.” They include the 1914 version of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, George Cukor’s 1950 Born Yesterday, Truman Capote’s 1961 Breakfast At Tiffany’s, Don Siegel’s 1971 Dirty Harry, Bob Clark’s 1983 A Christmas Story, Richard Linklater’s 1991 Slacker, Penny Marshall’s 1992 A League Of Their Own and the Wachowski’s 1999 The Matrix. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington said, “These films are not selected as the ‘best’ American films of all time, but rather as works of enduring importance to American culture. They reflect who we are as a people and as a nation.” The National Film Registry now totals 600 films. All titles will be preserved either through the Library’s motion picture preservation program or through collaborative ventures with other archives, studios and independent filmmakers. Following is a complete list of the selected films: Read More »

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FX Orders Drama Pilot From ‘Homeland’s Howard Gordon & Gideon Raff, Craig Wright

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday December 10, 2012 @ 9:30am PSTTags: Big Deals TV, Craig Wright, FX, Howard Gordon, Tyrant
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FX has given a pilot order to Tyrant, a drama from Homeland executive producers Howard Gordon and Gideon Raff, Six Feet Under alum Craig Wright and 20th Century Fox TV’s Fox 21. Tyrant, casually referred to as “reverse Homeland“, was created by Raff, creator of the Israeli drama Prisoners Of War on which Showtime’s Homeland was based. Tyrant, developed by Gordon and Wright, tells the story of an unassuming American family drawn into the workings of a turbulent Middle Eastern nation. Raff wrote the pilot script, which hails from Teakwood Lane, Gordon’s 20th TV-based production company. “The brilliant and wholly original concept just blew us all away,” FX’s EVP Nick Grad said. “It’s pretty amazing when you read a script and can instantly imagine it becoming one of the best shows on television.”

Gordon, Raff and Wright are executive producing in association with Keshet Broadcasting, the Israeli company behind Prisoners Of War, which also co-produces Homeland. Wright is set to serve as showrunner if Tyrant goes to series. For Wright, the project stems from the overall deal he inked with Fox 21 in August. Production on the pilot is tentatively slated to begin in spring 2013. Read More »

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Global Showbiz Briefs: BBC Probe, Keshet Sells ‘Fair & Square’, ‘Father’s Day’ Banned, Quickflix Seeks Quick Cash

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday November 1, 2012 @ 9:55pm PDTTags: BBC, Global Showbiz Briefs, Keshet, Quickflix

BBC Inquiry To Ramp Up Next Week
As incoming New York Times Company CEO Mark Thompson is given the going over by staff at the newspaper who have questioned his involvement in the Jimmy Savile scandal, the BBC’s internal inquiry in the contentious cancellation of its Newsnight investigation will start interviewing key players next week. They include the editor of the program, Peter Rippon, who killed a probe into Savile’s impropriety that was set to air in December last year. He reported to Helen Boaden, director of BBC News, and George Entwistle, the new BBC director general who was head of television at the time. Both are expected to face tough questions from Nick Pollard, the former head of Sky News who is in charge of the inquiry. They’ll be joined by the Newsnight journalists who led the investigation into Savile, some of whom blew the whistle on the odd decision-making in a report on BBC current affairs program Panorama last week. Meanwhile, rival broadcaster ITV, which aired a program finally revealing the allegations against Savile at the start of October, is planning further revelations about the late Top Of The Pops host. A second report will be fronted by Mark Williams-Thomas, the former detective who led the original show. It’ll air at the end of November, as the Pollard inquiry is expected to be publishing its findings. – Joe Utichi
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CBS Buys Female Vigilante Drama From McG And Daniel Cerone

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday October 11, 2012 @ 11:28am PDTTags: Big Deals TV, CBS, McG
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EXCLUSIVE: McG has teamed with The Mentalist executive producer Daniel Cerone for a female-lead crime drama, which has sold to CBS. Carrying the social media-influenced title #Resistance, the project from McG’s Wonderland Sound and Vision and Warner Bros TV centers on an unconventional young female detective for the San Francisco Police Department who won’t let criminals get away with their actions. After she finally goes too far, she gets fired from the force — only to be secretly recruited by the Chief of Police to become an undercover officer posing as a vigilante, allowing her to break the law in order to serve justice. Cerone will write the script and executive produce with Wonderland’s McG and Peter Johnson.

The project, somewhat of a female Equalizer, was put together by Wonderland VP Jeff Grosvenor. It stems from McG’s history and interest in empowered female characters and Cerone’s experience on Dexter, where he served as executive producer/showrunner, and on The Mentalist — both shows centered on characters that fight crime from outside the conventional system. Read More »

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Crime Drama From ‘Homeland’ Duo Howard Gordon & Alex Gansa Gets Pilot Production Commitment At CBS

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday October 4, 2012 @ 5:00pm PDTTags: Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon
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Homeland co-creators and executive producers Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa just landed a pilot production commitment at CBS to go with the two Emmys they won 10 days ago, including best drama series. CBS has handed out the big penalty to Anatomy Of Violence, a drama from 20th Century Fox TV and Gordon’s studio-based Teakwood Lane. It will be co-written by Gordon and Gansa in a followup to them co-penning the pilot for Homeland based on Gideon Raff’s Israeli series, which earned them an Emmy for best drama writing. Inspired by the soon-to-be-published non-fiction title The Anatomy Of Violence: The Biological Roots Of Crime by Adrian Raine, the CBS drama centers on a female FBI agent who starts working with a mysterious psychiatrist with whom she shares a past connection. Gordon and Gansa will executive produce, with Teakwood’s Hugh Fitzpatrick co-executive producing.

Anatomy Of Violence extends Gordon and Gansa’s successful reunion as writing partners. As referenced in Gansa’s Emmy acceptance speech, the two started off as a writing team before splitting up while working on The X Files. Years later, Gordon, as showrunner on 24, hired Gansa, and the two restarted their writing partnership with Homeland. Read More »

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TOLDJA! William Friedkin Negotiating To Helm Nic Cage In ‘I Am Wrath’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday October 1, 2012 @ 11:45am PDTTags: Emmett/Furla Films, I Am Wrath, Nicolas Cage, William Friedkin
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EXCLUSIVE: When Deadline revealed in Toronto that Emmett/Furla Films had set Nicolas Cage for the action thriller I Am Wrath, we told you that William Friedkin was circling to direct the project. I’m hearing that Friedkin is pretty much committed to do the film. Friedkin, who has helmed some of the great action crime thrillers – To Live And Die In LA and The French Connection – will make this his follow-up to Killer Joe.

Following the murder of his wife, Stanley (Cage) finds that the police are unable to catch the perpetrators. He uncovers a thick plot of police corruption and realizes that he will have to find justice on his own. As he awakens to the level of degradation of the people sworn to serve and protect, we get a little Rage in the Cage as he becomes a vigilante out to destroy those who abuse their power. Paul Sloan wrote the script based on a story by Yvan Gauthier. Lionsgate will release domestically on a film that begins production in February. Emmett and Furla are producing with Cheetah Vision Films’ Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Grindstone’s Barry Brooker & Stan Wertlieb, Vallelonga Productions’ Nick Vallelonga, Richard Salvatore & David Omston. Read More »

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Howard Gordon’s Company Sells Fourth Project – Action Thriller Drama At Fox

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday September 17, 2012 @ 6:02pm PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Howard Gordon, Showtime
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Howard GordonAs he heads into Emmy weekend where he hopes to repeat his 24 success with hot new Showtime drama Homeland, Howard Gordon has sold the fourth project through Teakwood Lane, the 20th Century Fox TV-based production company he launched in July.

Action thriller Vigilant, written by Max Landis (Chronicle), which went to Fox in a script deal with penalty, is a “superhero” origin story told through the unlikely POV of a brilliant 20-year old woman who is also a social outcast. After an honorable veteran detective is brutally coerced into working for the corrupt head of Internal Affairs, the detective’s daughter plans her revenge by meticulously constructing a fictional vigilante persona to take on the criminal elements within the police department and the city. Gordon, Landis and Teakwood’s Hugh Fitzpatrick executive produce. Read More »

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Toronto: Nicolas Cage Back With Emmett/Furla For ‘I Am Wrath’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday September 11, 2012 @ 10:00am PDTTags: Emmett/Furla Films, I Am Wrath, Nicolas Cage, Toronto Film Festival
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EXCLUSIVE: Emmett/Furla Films has set Nicolas Cage for the action thriller I Am Wrath. This comes after Cage starred with John Cusack and Vanessa Hudgens in The Frozen Ground for Emmett/Furla co-founders Randall Emmett and George Furla. William Friedkin, who knows his way around taut crime thrillers with films like To Live And Die In LA and The French Connection, is circling to make the film his follow to Killer Joe, I’m told. Paul Sloan wrote the script based on a story by Yvan Gauthier. Lionsgate will release the film domestically on a film that begins production in February.

Following the murder of his wife, Stanley (Cage) finds that the police are unable to catch the perpetrators. He uncovers a thick plot of police corruption and realizes that he will have to find justice on his own. As he awakens to the level of degradation of the people sworn to serve and protect, we get a little Rage in the Cage as he becomes a vigilante out to destroy those who abuse their power. Read More »

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Jimmy Fallon’s Company Sells Two Comedy Projects To NBC & Drama To Fox

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday September 4, 2012 @ 4:05pm PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Jimmy Fallon
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EXCLUSIVE: On the heels of landing its first series order in May with comedy Guys With Kids, Jimmy Fallon’s Universal TV-based company Holiday Road has set up three projects for next season: single-camera comedy Slammed and untitled multi-camera Hipster project at NBC and hour-long drama Bad Seeds at Fox. Fallon will serve as an executive producer on all three, along with producing partner Amy Ozols.

Slammed is penned by APA-repped Jon Rineman, senior monologue writer for NBC’s Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. It is a workplace comedy set in the world of professional wrestling. Read More »

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