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NBC Buys Cyrus Voris/Ethan Reiff Shanghai Cop Drama, Comedy From ‘Sitter’ Scribes

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday September 30, 2011 @ 8:20am PDTTags: Alessandro Tanaka, American Work, Animal Kingdom, Bob Greenblatt, Brian Gatewood, China, Jennifer Salke, Universal TV
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EXCLUSIVE: NBC is China-bound. The network has bought a cop drama project set in Shanghai from writers Cyrus Voris and Ethan Reiff. The project is about a pair of fugitive recovery agents working in China’s (and the world’s) largest city, population 23 million. It stems from a blind script deal Voris and Reiff had at NBC and will be produced by Universal TV. Voris and Reiff had been thinking about doing a cop show set in China for a while, and separately new NBC entertainment president Jennifer Salke had been looking to do a show set in the Asian country for some time, originally as top development executive at 20th TV. UPDATED: Voris and Reiff have an extensive background and knowledge of China working on Chinese-themed projects, including co-writing the story for DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda, which was set in old China. The new project reunites UTA-repped Voris and Reiff with NBC chairman Bob Greenblatt. The two co-created and executive produced the Showtime drama Sleeper Cell, which ran for two seasons while Greenblatt was at the helm of the pay cable network. READ MORE »

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Hot Trailer: Jonah Hill’s ‘The Sitter’

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Sunday August 7, 2011 @ 1:26am PDTTags: 20th Century Fox, Alessandro Tanaka, Brian Gatewood, David Gordon Green, Jonah Hill, Movie Trailer, The Sitter

This new trailer for 20th Century Fox’s raunchy R-rated comedy The Sitter starring Jonah Hill as the world’s most irresponsible babysitter is attached to Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes in theaters this weekend. Release date is December 9th. Directed by David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express) and produced by Mike De Luca, … Read More »

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