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‘Smurfs’ Scribes Jay Scherick & David Ronn Sell Blended Family Comedy To CBS

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday October 3, 2012 @ 6:04pm PDTTags: David Ronn, Jay Scherick
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Jay Scherick and David Ronn, co-writers of Sony’s Smurfs feature franchise, are writing and executive producing another comedy for the studio, this time on the TV side. CBS has bought an untitled multi-camera comedy produced by Sony Pictures TV where Scherick and Ronn had a blind script deal. It centers on two very opposite brothers forced by circumstance to move their two very opposite families into the same house.

On the feature side, Scherick and Ronn co-wrote Sony Pictures Animation’s sleeper 2011 hit The Smurfs and co-wrote the sequel, set for release next year. They also have been tapped by the studio to script Popeye, a 3D animated adaptation of the comic book. ICM Partners-repped Scherick and Ronn started off in television as writers on Mr. Rhodes, Caroline In The City and Spin City before segueing to movies with Guess Who, Norbit and Zookeper.

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Sony Pictures Animation Sets ‘Smurfs’ Scribes Jay Scherick & David Ronn To Script ‘Popeye’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday November 3, 2011 @ 12:01pm PDTTags: David Ronn, Jay Scherick
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Sony Pictures Animation has turned to its The Smurfs scribes, Jay Scherick & David Ronn, to script Popeye, the animated adaptation of the comic book. SPA and Avi Arad are producing Popeye, which will be a 3D stereoscopic effort. ”Scherick … Read More »

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‘Smurfs’ Co-Writers Jay Scherick & David Ronn Sell Cop Comedy To ABC

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday August 5, 2011 @ 4:17pm PDTTags: ABC, David Ronn, Jay Scherick, Sony Pictures Television
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Jay Scherick and David Ronn, co-writers of the summer sleeper The Smurfs, are taking on another group of people in blue, this time live-action humans on television. After heated bidding, ABC has landed a single-camera ensemble workplace comedy … Read More »

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Hot Teaser Trailer: ‘The Zookeeper’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday November 8, 2010 @ 11:59am PSTTags: David Ronn, Jay Scherick, Kevin James, Mary Parent MGM, Movies, Sony Pictures, Trailers, Video, Zookeeper
Mike Fleming

Sony Pictures Entertainment has released a teaser for The Zookeeper, the Kevin James-starrer which will be one of the studio’s 2011 summer tent poles. The film was done as a co-production with MGM, but the early heavy lifting was done by former MGM picture chief Mary Parent, who paid $2 … Read More »

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