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Cinemax Developing Action Vigilante Drama

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday August 31, 2011 @ 6:00pm PDTTags: Cinemax
Nellie Andreeva

On the heels of Strike Back and Transporter, Cinemax is developing another action drama series, Sandbox. It centers on a group of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans who return to the Coachella Valley to discover their hometown has been overrun by criminals. The men decide to use the skills they learned in combat to clean up the town, with unexpected results. Feature writers Andre Fabrizio and Jeremy Passmore (Red Dawn, The World After) will write the script, with Steve Kronish (24, The Kennedys) on board as showrunner. The three, all repped by Paradigm, will executive produce with Larry and Chuck Gordon. Passmore and Fabrizio, who are writing The World After with Len Wiseman set to direct and recently rewrote Hellifield for Lorenzo di Bonaventura, are managed by Aperture Entertainment’s Adam Goldworm.

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Cinemax Passes On ‘The Sector’; Series Eyes Potential Move To Science Channel

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday August 31, 2011 @ 12:45am PDTTags: Cinemax, Science Channel, The Sector
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Sci-fi action-crime series The Sector, from Ridley and Tony Scott’s Scott Free Prods and Germany’s Tandem Communications, is no longer set up at Cinemax. There is talk about Discovery’s Science (formerly Science Channel) possibly picking up the action-crime series in the vein of Blade Runner and District 9 that centers on a commander of a paramilitary unit who pursues a dangerous new race of genetically-enhanced humans. I hear the search is underway for a writer to rework the script by The Sector creators Aaron and Matthew Benay. The Sector had been in development at Cinemax for several months with Simon Mirren attached as exec producer/showrunner and Anne Thomopoluos as executive producer when Tandem, Scott Free and Cinemax announced in April that the project was a go. There has been a discrepancy over the size of the network’s commitment, with some calling it a series order and others insisting it was a pickup of a pilot script and a bible. The commitment is now believed to be the latter, and Cinemax ultimately passed on the project as it already has one direct-to-series primetime drama, Strike Back, on the air; another, Transporter, in production; and a third, the Alan Ball-produced Banshee, which was developed at sister pay cable network HBO, eying a spring production start. Read More »

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Scott Nemes Tapped As Development Executive For Cinemax

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday August 16, 2011 @ 12:11pm PDTTags: Cinemax
Nellie Andreeva

With HBO sibling Cinemax rapidly ramping up its original primetime series development and production, the channel is now getting a dedicated programming executive. Former Film Department exec Scott Nemes will shepherd the development and production of original series … Read More »

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Solid Start For ‘Strike Back’ On Cinemax, Lifetime’s ‘Against The Wall’ Inches Up

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday August 15, 2011 @ 2:53pm PDTTags: Against the Wall, Cable Ratings, Cinemax, Lifetime, Strike Back
Nellie Andreeva

Cinemax’s first primetime original series, actioner Strike Back, got off to a promising start Friday, drawing 567,000 viewers for its premiere 10 PM across Cinemax’s universe of 16.7 million homes. That was Cinemax’s best ratings performance in the … Read More »

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Cinemax Prepping Amish Country Series Executive Produced by Alan Ball

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday August 11, 2011 @ 12:47am PDTTags: Alan Ball, Cinemax, HBO, Jonathan Tropper
Nellie Andreeva

After relaunching original primetime programming with three action series — Strike Back, The Transporter and The Sector, all done as international co-productions — Cinemax is taking a different approach with another drama project eyed for a series order, … Read More »

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Cinemax’s ‘Transporter’ Series Casts Male & Female Leads

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday May 20, 2011 @ 11:23am PDTTags: Cinemax, Transporter
Nellie Andreeva

Chris Vance was cast as the male lead and Andrea Osvart as the female lead in Transporter, Cinemax’s 12-episode action series based on Luc Besson’s Transporter film franchise. The series … Read More »

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Sigourney Weaver & Matt Letscher In HBO Pilot ‘Spring/Fall’, 3 Join Cinemax Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday May 17, 2011 @ 4:22am PDTTags: Chemistry, Cinemax, HBO, Jessica Hecht, Sigourney Weaver, Spring/Fall
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Matt Letscher is set to co-star and Sigourney Weaver to guest star in HBO’s comedy pilot Spring/Fall, starring Tea Leoni and Hope Davis and directed by Jake Kasdan. Set in New York City against the backdrop of the fashion world, the project centers on the dysfunctional partnership between Margo (Leoni) and Eden (Davis), two women with different approaches to career, family and friendship. Letscher will play Margo’s ex-husband. In a rare series appearance, Weaver will play a meticulously dressed, authoritative fashion editor. Also cast in the pilot are Jason Antoon as Eden’s current best friend; Marin Hinkle as Eden’s sister; and Jessica Hecht as Margo’s best friend, a successful management consultant. Read More »

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DishOnline Adds HBO & Cinemax Content Not Available to Netflix

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday April 21, 2011 @ 12:05pm PDTTags: Blockbuster, Cinemax, Dish Network, HBO, Netflix

Dish Network has taken another swipe at Netflix with the announcement today that it has partnered with HBO and Cinemax to give its subscribers access to HBO Go and Max Go — premium-channel content that isn’t available on Netflix’s streaming service. Dish customers who subscribe to HBO or Cinemax can … Read More »

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CABLE CASTINGS: Cinemax’s ‘Chemistry’ Gets Lead, Hallmark Casts Prince William, Showtime’s ‘The Big C’ Nabs Recurring

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday April 19, 2011 @ 5:57pm PDTTags: Chemistry, Cinemax, Hallmark Channel, Showtime, William And Kate: A Royal Love Story
Nellie Andreeva

Jonathan Chase is in final negotiations for the male lead in Cinemax’s 13-episode late-night half-hour dramedy Chemistry, executive produced by Bill Haber. Written by Richard Christian Matheson and Norman Steinberg, the series focuses on the complexity of the relationship between … Read More »

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Cinemax Nears Pickup of ‘Chemistry’ Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday April 6, 2011 @ 6:23pm PDTTags: Chemistry, Cinemax, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

I hear Cinemax is finalizing the deals for a 13-episode order to Chemistry, a half-hour dramedy for late night that is executive produced by CAA co-founder Bill Haber. Richard Christian Matheson and Norman Steinberg have written all 13 episodes of … Read More »

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Cinemax Orders Action Series From Scott Free

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday April 1, 2011 @ 11:57am PDTTags: Cinemax, Ridley Scott, Simon Mirren, The Sector, Tony Scott
Nellie Andreeva

Cinemax has picked up to series action-crime series The Sector, from Ridley and Tony Scott’s Scott Free Prods. The project was created and written by Aaron Benay and Matthew Benay, with former Criminal Minds executive producer/showrunner Simon Mirren on … Read More »

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Cinemax Greenlights ‘Transporter’ Series Executive Produced by Luc Besson

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday March 31, 2011 @ 10:49am PDTTags: Cinemax, Luc Besson, Transporter
Nellie Andreeva

Cinemax is teaming with Luc Besson for a TV series based on his popular Transporter film franchise. After lengthy negotiations, HBO’s sibling pay-cable channel has committed to 12 episodes of  the action drama, produced by French company Atlantique and executive … Read More »

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Cinemax Is Original Drama Player: Partners With Sky For ‘Strike Back’ Action Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday February 9, 2011 @ 11:00am PSTTags: Cinemax, Strike Back, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

HBO’s sibling pay-cable channel Cinemax is venturing into original programming with its first scripted primetime drama, Strike Back, a 10-hour action series it will co-produce with British satcaster Sky and U.K.-based Left Bank Pictures (The Special … Read More »

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