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UTA Signs Chernin Entertainment In TV

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday May 14, 2013 @ 9:34am PDTTags: Chernin Entertainment, UTA
Nellie Andreeva

After a year without an agency representation in television, Peter Chernin’s production company has landed at UTA. Chernin Entertainment was signed by UTA Managing Director Jay Sures and partner/head of the TV department Matt Rice who will represent it. Chernin Entertainment, which is behind Fox’s flagship comedy New Girl, is a very lucrative client, in part because of its very rich deal at 20th Century Fox TV. The pact, which has two more years on it, has big on-air commitments from Fox built into it as part of Chernin’s exit package from News Corp. Four-year-old Chernin Entertainment got off to a flying start in television and was previously repped by WME until the two sides parted ways last June. While there, Chernin had multiple shows on the air, most recently New Girl, Touch and Ben & Kate this past season. This year, the company has no new series picked up for next season but New Girl just landed the coveted post-Super Bowl slot. Chernin Entertainment’s TV division is run by Katherine Pope.

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‘The Heat’ Scribe Katie Dippold Makes 7-Figure Sale To Chernin Entertainment

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday April 3, 2013 @ 6:01pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Chernin Entertainment, Katie Dippold, Paul Feig, The Heat
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Chernin Entertainment and Fox are so convinced they have a hit in the Paul Feig-directed comedy The Heat with Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock that they moved the picture right into the heat of the July … Read More »

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Soccer Match Fixing Scandal Pic Plotted By Chernin Entertainment, Fox

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday February 28, 2013 @ 12:45pm PSTTags: 20th Century Fox, Chernin Entertainment, FIFA, Soccer Match Fixing
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Chernin Entertainment and 20th Century Fox are in talks to make a feature based on the soccer match fixing rings that have proven to be a global scourge for the world’s most popular sport. The film will … Read More »

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Chernin Ent. Promotes Jenno Topping To President Of Film

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday February 27, 2013 @ 5:49pm PSTTags: Chernin Entertainment, Jenno Topping

Jenno Topping CherninChernin Entertainment today upped Jenno Topping to President of films, less than two years after she was hired as EVP of the division. Topping is currently producing the Sandra … Read More »

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John Legend To Produce Comedy For Fox Inspired By His Life Through Chernin Co.

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday October 11, 2012 @ 10:01am PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Chernin Entertainment, Fox, John Legend
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Fox has bought an untitled John Legend comedy project from 20th Century Fox TV, studio-based Chernin Entertainment and Legend’s production company Get Lifted. Written by Sons Of Tucson‘s co-creators Tommy Dewey & Greg Bratman, the single-camera … Read More »

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Fox Buys Detective Drama From Writer Chris Levinson And Chernin Entertainment

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday August 3, 2012 @ 5:35pm PDTTags: Chernin Entertainment, Fox
Nellie Andreeva

Fox has made a premium script deal for a character-driven cop-drama from Chernin Entertainment and 20th Century Fox TV. Written by Chris Levinson (Touch), the untitled project centers on a major crimes detective who starts slowly losing his … Read More »

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Kerry Foster Takes Film Post At Chernin Entertainment

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday August 2, 2012 @ 11:19am PDTTags: Chernin Entertainment, Kerry Foster, Peter Chernin
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Kerry Foster has joined Chernin Entertainment as an executive. She will work on the film side of the production company and report to Executive Vice President Jenno Topping. All eyes are on the top slot at Chernin Entertainment, … Read More »

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Dylan Clark Shifts To Producer Slot At Chernin Entertainment

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday June 6, 2012 @ 6:38pm PDTTags: Chernin Entertainment, Dylan Clark, Peter Chernin
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Dylan Clark, who three years ago transitioned from an exec veep post at Universal Pictures to become president of the film division of Chernin Entertainment, is in the process of transitioning out of that post to produce … Read More »

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Peter Chernin’s Company Leaves WME

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday June 5, 2012 @ 8:08pm PDTTags: Chernin Entertainment, Peter Chernin, WME
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: After two years at WME, Peter Chernin’s production company has left the agency, which represented its TV division. WME represented former NBC executive Katherine Pope in her deal to become Chernin Entertainment’s president of television and took in … Read More »

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‘Parks And Rec’s Katie Dippold Sells Untitled Female Buddy Cop Script To Chernin

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday March 28, 2012 @ 5:43pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Chernin Entertainment, Peter Chernin
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Chernin Entertainment dipped into its discretionary fund to spend mid six figures to option an untitled female buddy cop action comedy written by Katie Dippold, the writer and producer on Parks And Recreation. Dippold most recently sold an untitled … Read More »

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Focus Features Hires Chernin Entertainment’s Josh McLaughlin As SVP Production

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday March 9, 2012 @ 1:05pm PSTTags: Chernin Entertainment, Focus Features

LOS ANGELES, March 9th, 2012 – Josh McLaughlin is joining Focus Features as senior vice president, production at the worldwide film company. Focus president of production Jeb Brody made the announcement today. Mr. McLaughlin begins work this month. Reporting to Mr. Brody, he will be based in Focus’ West Coast offices and will work with the global Focus production team in New York, London, and Los Angeles.

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‘Miss Bala’ Helmer Gerardo Naranjo In Talks For Fox Drama ‘The Mountain Between Us’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday February 2, 2012 @ 1:39pm PSTTags: 20th Century Fox, Chernin Entertainment
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment are negotiating with Gerardo Naranjo to direct The Mountain Between Us, an adaptation of the Charles Martin novel. Naranjo is coming off Miss Bala, Mexico’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar submission, about an … Read More »

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Fox Buys Russell Brand Animated Comedy

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday December 15, 2011 @ 10:15am PSTTags: Chernin Entertainment, Fox, Russell Brand
Nellie Andreeva

It’s been a busy day for Russell Brand. Fox has picked up an an animated comedy co-created and voiced by the British actor-comedian, the same day cable sibling FX announced that Brand signed a deal for an unscripted late-night … Read More »

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Tim Burton Circles ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday November 15, 2011 @ 9:08am PSTTags: Chernin Entertainment, Dylan Clark, Fox, Jenno Topping, Johnny Depp, Peter Chernin, Ransom Riggs, Tim Burton, Timur Bekmambetov
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: In a match that seems ideal, Tim Burton is in early talks to come aboard Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children, the Ransom Riggs novel that 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment acquired last spring. Burton is in talks to develop the book as a potential directing project, and he would be involved in setting a writer to adapt the tale.

It involves Jacob, a 16-year-old whose childhood was filled with stories his grandfather told him about an orphanage for unusual children. Among the residents: a girl who could hold fire in her hands, another whose feet never touched the ground, and twins who communicated without speaking. When his beloved grandfather dies unexpectedly but leaves a message behind for his grandson, the teen heads off to his grandfather’s home on an isolated island off Wales. There he discovers the abandoned remains of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. It is in great disrepair and as Jacob explores its bedrooms and hallways, he can see the children were more than peculiar, they might have been there because they were dangerous. And he can’t shake the feeling they are still lurking around. Peter Chernin, Dylan Clark and Jenno Topping are producing. Read More »

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NBC To Reboot Stephen Cannell’s ‘Wiseguy’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday October 25, 2011 @ 5:45pm PDTTags: 20th Century Fox TV, Alex Cary, Chernin Entertainment, NBC
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Stephen J. Cannell’s 1980s series Wiseguy is getting a contemporary reboot at NBC. The peacock network has bought a new take on the crime drama, which will be written by Alex Cary (Homeland). The project, from 20th Century Fox TV and studio-based Chernin Entertainment, has received a script commitment with penalty.

A re-imagening of the original series, which Cannell co-created with Frank Lupo, Wiseguy centers on a disgraced former cop who, while serving time in prison, cuts a deal to work undercover for time off his sentence. The show begins as he’s being released — now he’ll put the connections he made behind bars to good use in the field as he helps the police take down a criminal organization. Cary, who is under an overall deal at 20th TV, will executive produce with Peter Chernin and Katherine Pope. The original series, which ran on CBS for 4 seasons from 1987 to 1990, starred Ken Wahl as Vincent “Vinnie” Terranova, an undercover agent of the Organized Crime Bureau, a fictional division of the FBI, whose cover was working as syndicate enforcer after a stint in the New Jersey penitentiary. The show, which had a lead change in the final season with Steven Bauer replacing Wahl and featured a standout performances by Kevin Spacey and Jerry Lewis, was an early pioneer in the introduction of serialized elements to a crime procedural, with each season consisting of several arcs, and in the use of runaway production for cutting costs. Read More »

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Fox Buys Sibling Comedy From Feature Writer Dana Fox With Penalty

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday October 25, 2011 @ 4:00pm PDTTags: Ben Fox Is My Manny, Chernin Entertainment, Dana Fox, Fox
Nellie Andreeva

Fox has bought Ben Fox is My Manny, a single-camera comedy project from feature writer Dana Fox (Couples Retreat, What Happens in Vegas). The project, produced by Chernin Entertainment and 20th Century Fox TV, has received a script commitment with … Read More »

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Fox Buys Wyatt Earp Western From Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci, Dating Comedy

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday September 29, 2011 @ 4:00pm PDTTags: 20th Century Fox TV, Alex Kurtzman, Chernin Entertainment, Cowboys & Aliens, Fox, K/O Paper Products, Roberto Orci
Nellie Andreeva

Fox is joining the Western trend this development season with an untitled drama project from producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, who co-wrote this summer’s big-screen Western with a sci-fi twist Cowboys & Aliens. Written by The Shield alum John Hlavin, the project is described as a Western that tells the origins of Wyatt Earp, chronicling both the well-known incidents in his life such as the Gunfight at the OK Corral and lesser-known details of Earp and his brothers bringing order to a lawless frontier. UTA-repped Hlavin, who has a feature Western, The Gunslinger, in development at Warner Bros, brought the project to Kurtzman and Orci. The three will executive produce with Heather Kadin for 20th Century Fox TV and Kurtzman and Orci’s K/O Paper Products. Read More »

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Fox’s Breakout Comedy ‘New Girl’ Gets Full-Season Pickup

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday September 28, 2011 @ 1:25pm PDTTags: 20th Century Fox TV, Chernin Entertainment, Fox, full-season order, New Girl, Zooey Deschanel
Nellie Andreeva

ANALYSIS: Behind ‘New Girl’s Surprisingly Big Opening And The iTunes Experiment

After two highly rated airings, Fox’s new comedy series New Girl is getting an early back-nine pickup — which in this case is a back-11 pickup — bringing the order to the show starring Zooey Deschanel to 24 episodes. The 20th TV/Chernin Entertainment series, which gave Fox the elusive first live-action half-hour comedy hit in a decade, launched with a big 4.8 rating among adults 18-49 last week. Last night, it logged a 4.5, topping all Tuesday competition in the demo both weeks.

New Girl was created by Liz Meriwether who is executive producing with Peter Chernin, Katherine Pope and helmer Jake Kasdan, who directed both the pilot and last night’s second episode. “We love the charming Zooey Deschanel and the entire cast, we’re knocked out with the work that Liz Meriwether and the whole staff is doing and we are really psyched about the upcoming episodes in the pipeline,” Fox entertainment president Kevin Reilly said. “It’s great that audiences have responded so positively so far and we’re confident that even more people will embrace the show — and more comedy on Fox — this season.” New Girl is the first new fall series to get a back-nine order. Read More »

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Peter Chernin And Gore Verbinski Landing Futuristic Pitch

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday September 28, 2011 @ 1:07pm PDTTags: Basil Iwanyk, Burk Sharpless, Chernin Entertainment, Dylan Clark, Gore Verbinski, John Krauss, Matt Sazama, Peter Chernin
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Chernin Entertainment is near a deal to acquire an untitled pitch by scribes Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless. Chernin Entertainment’s Peter Chernin and Dylan Clark will produce with Blind Wink’s Gore Verbinski and John Krauss. Chernin will buy it … Read More »

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