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PILOT SEASON 2013: The Overachievers

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday February 20, 2013 @ 9:26am PSTTags: 3 Arts, Aaron Kaplan, Big Deals TV, Peter Tolan
Nellie Andreeva

Here is Deadline’s annual list of The Overachievers Of Pilot Season. For anyone, landing a pilot is a major accomplishment. These selected few took that achievement to the next level.

Related: PILOT SEASON: The Overachievers 2012

Aaron Kaplan. Proving that his fast start as a producer was not just beginner’s luck, the former WMA agent has become a force to be reckoned with during pilot season. This year he landed five pilot orders, one more than last year and a new personal best. All five are comedies — ABC’s Pulling, Bad Management and the untitled Cullen brothers project, CBS’ Friends With Better Lives and NBC’s The Gates — as are Kaplan’s on-air series, ABC’s The Neighbors and Nick at Nite’s Wendell & Vinnie, as well as another Nick pilot, Instant Mom. On the drama side, he has pilots Terminals, which is nearing a series pickup at ABC Family, and HR at Lifetime, which is casting. In a world of vertical integration, Kaplan operates as an independent one-man shop.

Another independent, management/production company 3 Arts, has four pilots, also all comedies: NBC’s untitled Greg Daniels/Robert Padnick, untitled Owen Ellickson & Craig Robinson and untitled John Mulaney/Lorne Michaels projects, as well as Fox’s untitled Dan Goor/Mike Schur project.

Writers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky are having a banner year. The Office alums and writers of the 2011 feature Bad Teacher are behind three broadcast comedy pilots — ABC’s Pulling, which they wrote and executive produce, as well as ABC’s Trophy Wife and CBS’ Bad Teacher adaptation, which they executive produce. Additionally, their HBO comedy pilot with Stephen Merchant, Hello Ladies, was picked up to series. READ MORE »

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De Angelis, Tandem In Worldwide Distribution Pact on $30M ‘Titanic’ Mini

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Friday January 27, 2012 @ 7:13am PSTTags: 3 Arts, Tandem Communications

Italy’s De Angelis Group has reached a worldwide television distribution agreement with event miniseries specialist Tandem Communications on the $30 million Titanic: Blood And Steel. Chris Noth, Neve Campbell, Kevin Zegers and Derek Jacobi star in the 12-part series directed by The Tudors’ Ciaran Donnelly and slated to coincide with this year’s 100th anniversary of the sinking of the famed liner. The mini is a co-production from De Angelis and Tandem along with RAI TV, LA’s 3 Arts, Canada’s CBC, the UK’s Artist Studio, Ireland’s Epos Film and Spain’s Antena 3. Separate rights agreements were concluded in the UK, Ireland and Canada. France’s Studiocanal recently acquired a majority stake in Tandem, which is also co-producing the miniseries World Without End with Ridley and Tony Scott’s Scott Free Productions. Here’s the release: Read More »

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Fox Buys Jonah Hill/Hannibal Buress Sitcom With Penalty

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday October 11, 2011 @ 8:35am PDTTags: 20th Century Fox TV, 3 Arts, Fox, Jonah Hill
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Fox has bought a comedy project to be co-written by Jonah Hill and standup comedian/writer Hannibal Buress with a blind script commitment plus penalty. The project, whose concept and … Read More »

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3 Arts & Sander/Moses Sell Drama Projects

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday September 26, 2011 @ 6:20pm PDTTags: 3 Arts, ABC, ABC Studios Sander/Moses, Erwin Stoff, Fox
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Fox has bought Pandemic, a medical thriller from Mystic Pizza writer Amy Holden Jones, 3 Arts Entertainment and 20th Century Fox TV. WME-repped Jones is writing the project, which follows an epidemiologist who is facing difficult adversaries as he … Read More »

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Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas Returns To Rep Biz As Manager/Producer At 3 Arts

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday September 26, 2011 @ 9:47am PDTTags: 3 Arts, Ari Emanuel, Bryan Lourd, Darren Star, Ed Limato, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Erwin Stoff, Jennifer Connelly, Jennifer Lopez, Julia Roberts, Kevin Huvane, Madonna, Sue Mengers, Susan Sarandon
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas is joining 3 Arts as a manager/producer, returning to the rep business after 11 years. Once a high-powered dealmaker at ICM best known for guiding Julia Roberts from unknown to $20 million a picture as the world’s biggest female star, Goldsmith-Thomas left ICM in 2000 to run Revolution Studios East for Joe Roth and supervise films under Roberts’ production deal there. She has been a full-time producer since Revolution folded. An agent for more than 15 years at WMA and ICM, Goldsmith-Thomas also repped Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Jennifer Lopez, Jennifer Connelly, Madonna and Darren Star.

The obvious question is whether she will be rejoined by Roberts, who went to CAA not long after Goldsmith-Thomas left. Goldsmith-Thomas said she comes to 3 Arts without any clients. While producing, she continued to give career advice when asked, but referred talent to agencies and management companies for years even as people asked why she wasn’t building a client list. She decided months ago to explore a return but was reticent to resurface as an agent. It would be hard returning to a job she left behind, and she never liked the poaching part of that game. She also didn’t want to give up producing, which agents can’t do. After meeting with 3 Arts’ Erwin Stoff, Goldsmith-Thomas felt she’d found the right fit. She will operate out of the management/production company’s New York base, where Richard Abate manages authors and runs the book department and Avi Gilbert manages stand-up comics.

“I’ve always loved the architecture of careers, and I missed working with colleagues in breaking down walls that have gotten thicker,” Goldsmith-Thomas told me. “I think it’s a mistake when people try to re-create the same career they had. I love what I’m doing now, and I see this as a complement.” Read More »

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Tom Gormican/Jake Kasdan Ensemble Comedy Lands At CBS With Penalty

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday September 19, 2011 @ 5:00pm PDTTags: 20th Century Fox TV, 3 Arts, CBS, Jake Kasdan, On The Verge Of Greatness, Tom Gormican
Nellie Andreeva

After a three-way bidding war, single-camera comedy pitch On The Verge of Greatness has landed at CBS with a significant penalty. The twentysomething ensemble comedy, from 3 Arts and 20th Century Fox TV, will be written/executive produced by … Read More »

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Tom Gormican & Jake Kasdan Comedy Project Sparks Major Bidding War

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday September 14, 2011 @ 11:30am PDTTags: 20th Century Fox TV, 3 Arts, Jake Kasdan, On The Verge Of Greatness, Tom Gormican
Nellie Andreeva

Comedy’s white-hot selling season continues with another half-hour project sparking a big bidding war. Titled On The Verge of Greatness, the single-camera twentysomething ensemble comedy hails from 3 Arts and 20th Century Fox TV. It will be written/executive produced by … Read More »

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Lit Manager Oly Obst Joins 3 Arts

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday June 10, 2011 @ 6:50am PDTTags: 3 Arts, Nick Osborne, Trevor Engelson, Underground Films & Management
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Oly Obst is leaving Underground Films & Management to join 3 Arts. Obst, who had been at Underground for four years, will bring clients that include Matt Robinson (The Invention of Lying), Reed Agnew & Eli Jorne (Raindrops All Around Me), Nichole Beattie (Prime Suspect), Davd King (Parks and … Read More »

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Jonathan Berry Joins 3 Arts Entertainment

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday November 19, 2010 @ 2:28pm PSTTags: 3 Arts, TV
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: TV producer/executive Jonathan Berry has joined 3 Arts Entertainment as a manager and producer based out of the company’s Los Angeles office. “Jon is excellent at identifying talent and developing material, and we feel he’ll be just as strong … Read More »

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3 Arts & Untitled Talk Management Merger

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday July 21, 2010 @ 4:12pm PDTTags: 3 Arts, 30 Rock, Daniel Day-Lewis, Erwin Stoff, Keanu Reeves, Madonna, Managers, Parks and Recreation, Production, Robert Pattinson, The Office, Tina Fey
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Management/production companies 3 Arts and Untitled Entertainment are in merger talks. I’m not certain they are going to join forces, but they are exploring it seriously. The potential mix of assets of the two companies is intriguing. 3 Arts — run by Erwin Stoff, Michael Rotenberg, Howard Klein, David … Read More »

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Warner Bros Exec Switches To Manager

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday June 23, 2010 @ 8:01am PDTTags: 3 Arts, Erwin Stoff, Managers, Warner Bros Pictures
Mike Fleming

Jairo Alvarado, who stepped right out UCLA and stepped into a job as a Warner Bros creative exec 18 months ago, is leaving next month to become a manager at 3 Arts. The 24-year old Alvarado said he wasn’t thinking of a career change before a general meeting with 3 … Read More »

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