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Diablo Cody Romantic Comedy From Amblin TV Lands At ABC With Penalty

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday November 2, 2012 @ 6:00pm PDTTags: ABC, Diablo Cody
Nellie Andreeva

Diablo CodyDiablo Cody, whose first TV series, Showtime’s United States Of Tara, was produced by DreamWorks TV, is back in business with the company (now called Amblin Television) with a new series project, this time on the broadcast side.

Alex + Amy, a romantic comedy spec by the Oscar-winning writer (Juno), landed at ABC with a script commitment plus penalty. Amblin TV is producing with Warner Bros. TV. Alex + Amy is about a romance between an ambitious 22-year-old Millennial guy and a 32-year-old Gen X woman who have just moved in together and are very much in love. Cody is executive producing with her manager Mason Novick and Amblin TV’s Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank.

Falvey and Frank remained close with Cody after the end of Tara and had been looking to do another show together. She gave them her Alex + Amy spec, which the two developed with her before taking it to Warner Bros. TV and then to the broadcast networks. Alex + Amy is one of several projects Amblin TV has set up at the broadcast networks, including two other comedies at ABC from writers Cheryl Holiday and Chris Sheridan. Cody and Amblin TV are with WME.

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Sarah Colonna Joins Cast Of Untitled Diablo Cody Pic

By BRIAN BROOKS | Wednesday March 7, 2012 @ 12:45pm PSTTags: Diablo Cody, Lamb Of God, Mandate Pictures

Sarah Colonna Lamb Of GodEXCLUSIVE: Sarah Colonna has joined Mandate Pictures’ untitled Diablo Cody project in a supporting role opposite Julianne Hough, Octavia Spencer, Holly Hunter, and Russell Brand. The film from writer-director Diablo Cody centers on … Read More »

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Nick Offerman Set For Diablo Cody’s ‘Lamb Of God’

By BRIAN BROOKS | Tuesday February 21, 2012 @ 9:18am PSTTags: Diablo Cody, Lamb Of God, Nick Offerman

Nick Offerman joins a cast that includes Octavia Spencer, Holly Hunter, Russell Brand and Julianne Hough. The Diablo Cody-directed drama Lamb Of God centers on a young evangelical woman who denounces God after a tragic plane crash that … Read More »

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VIDEO: New ‘Young Adult’ TV Spot

By PETE HAMMOND | Tuesday December 20, 2011 @ 5:49pm PSTTags: Charlize Theron, Diablo Cody, Jason Reitman, Young Adult
Pete Hammond

EXCLUSIVE: After going out last weekend on its modestly wide break to nearly 1000 screens where it grossed $3.4 million and cracked the box office Top 10, Paramount’s Young Adult is shifting its emphasis in TV spots airing starting on Thursday. It’s the same thing Paramount did last … Read More »

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Holly Hunter Joins Diablo Cody Comedy At Mandate

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday December 8, 2011 @ 10:18am PSTTags: Diablo Cody, Film Castings, Holly Hunter, Mandate Pictures
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Holly Hunter has been set by Mandate Pictures to star in the untitled comedy that will mark the directing debut of Young Adult and Juno scribe Diablo Cody. Hunter joins Julianne Hough, Russell Brand and The Help‘s Octavia Spencer. … Read More »

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HAMMOND: Oscar Hopefuls Swarm Hollywood Awards Gala

By PETE HAMMOND | Tuesday October 25, 2011 @ 2:31am PDTTags: Anne Hathaway, Ben Affleck, Bennett Miller, Carey Mulligan, Christopher Plummer, Diablo Cody, George Clooney, Michel Hazanavicius, Michelle Williams, Quentin Tarantino, The Artist, The Help
Pete Hammond

Across town, as President Barack Obama was drawing every celebrity not in contention for awards this season, the 15th annual Hollywood Awards Gala was taking place at the Beverly Hilton. All of the Oscar hopefuls who agreed to show up to accept an award were there in their Monday finest as this was a place to be seen if you want an ego boost at this early point in the season.

With 19 above- and below-the-line categories to plow through, this was a surprisingly fun show that, if it didn’t already exist, Hollywood would have to find some way to invent. Billed as the ”official” kickoff to awards season (if you don’t count all those film festivals we’ve just been through), The Hollywood Awards were created — and basically chosen — by executive director Carlos de Abreu, who, with Janice Pennington, founded the gala and accompanying film festival. They are the result of a months-long negotiation between him and the studios and distributors, who are using this early opportunity to get key positioning for the players they hope to advance during the long awards season leading ultimately to Oscar. The only caveat is that to get the award, you have to agree to show up.

This year, de Abreu has his pulse on some real contenders and handed out acting awards to — among many others — Michelle Williams, George Clooney and Christopher Plummer, who all could realistically be considered close to frontrunners in their respective categories.

A real highlight of the show was when Marilyn Monroe’s Oscar-nominated Bus Stop co-star Don Murray showed up to present Hollywood Actress of the Year to Williams, who plays the iconic star in The Weinstein Company’s My Week With Marilyn. “I’m the last of the the on-screen lovers of Marilyn Monroe, and I still just happen to have a body that actually works, ” the 82-year-old actor said to much laughter. “Michelle re-created moments I was so intimately familiar with as I spent 14 months working with Marilyn. There’s not one thing in this film that’s not truthful. It was a revelation. Michelle’s performance made me appreciate Marilyn Monroe  so much more.”

Williams, noticeably nervous, said her friends always wanted to see her win a award so she could basically sweat through the experience. She did well though, closing with a touching perception about Monroe. “It seems to me that all Marilyn Monroe wanted was to be taken seriously as an actress, and she studied so hard and never really got there,” she said, adding that it was ironic Williams herself could get this kind of recognition that so eluded the star she played.

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Diablo Cody Re-Launches Her ‘Red Band Trailer’ Web Talk Show On L Studio

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday October 5, 2011 @ 9:49am PDTTags: Diablo Cody, John Krasinski, Red Band Trailer
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Lexus’ broadband channel L Studio has picked up Diablo Cody’s Web talk show Red Band Trailer. The first new episode of the series features the Oscar-winning screenwriter interviewing John Krasinski (video below). It will be followed by interviews with … Read More »

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Julianne Hough, Russell Brand Star In Diablo Cody Directing Debut

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday September 26, 2011 @ 10:20am PDTTags: Diablo Cody, Julianne Hough, Russell Brand
Mike Fleming

Mandate Pictures has set Footloose‘s Julianne Hough and Russell Brand to star in Juno scribe Diablo Cody’s directing debut. The film is untitled and Mason Novick will produce. Cody will be exec producer with Nathan Kahane. Production starts in the … Read More »

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Paramount Schedules Jason Reitman’s ‘Young Adult’ For December Bow

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday July 25, 2011 @ 6:06pm PDTTags: Charlize Theron, Diablo Cody, Film Release Date, Jason Reitman, Paramount Pictures, Young Adult

Paramount said today that it will bow Jason Reitman’s Young Adult in limited release on Dec. 9, 2011 and take it wide on Dec. 16. The pic, which reunites the Juno team of Reitman and scribe Diablo Cody, stars Charlize Theron as a ghostwriter of young-adult novels who dips into … Read More »

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Ghost House Preps Remake Of ‘The Evil Dead’; Diablo Cody Polishing Script

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday July 13, 2011 @ 3:04pm PDTTags: Bruce Campbell, Diablo Cody, Ghost House Pictures, Rob Tapert, Sam Raimi

Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert and Bruce Campbell are readying to remake their cult horror hit The Evil Dead, tapping Fede Alvarez to write and direct the redo and putting the project on the fast track via Raimi, Tapert and Nathan Kahane’s Ghost House Pictures. Alvarez, who came to the producers’ attention via his short film Panic Attack, penned the script with Rodo Sayagues, and scribe Diablo Cody is doing revisions on the latest draft. In the original 1981 film that starred Campbell, five friends at a remote cabin in the woods unknowingly summon demons from an ancient civilization, causing all sorts of bloody and gory problems. The movie spawned a pair of sequels: Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness. Raimi, Tapert and Campbell, the original film’s producers, will produce the new incarnation, and Ghost House partners Kahane and Joe Drake will executive produce. Nicole Brown and J.R. Young will oversee the project for Ghost House. Lionsgate will handle international sales on the film. Two things come to mind: The in-camera special effects were the best parts of the original, so it will be interesting to see how modern VFX will be utilized. Also, the news that Juno scribe Cody is on the case is interesting, though she does have a horror film under her belt having penned the Megan Fox-starrer Jennifer’s Body, which didn’t do much at the box office. Stay tuned on both fronts. Read More »

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Diablo Cody Makes Directing Debut On ‘Lamb Of God’ For Mandate

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday June 29, 2011 @ 4:06pm PDTTags: Diablo Cody, Mandate Pictures, Nathan Kahane
Mike Fleming

Mandate Pictures has acquired Lamb of God, a script by Juno scribe Diablo Cody that will mark her feature directorial debut. Mason Novick (500 Days Of Summer) will produce. Mandate president Nathan Kahane will executive produce alongside Cody. Mandate has the project on the fast track and will begin casting right away. The comedy follows a young conservative religious woman who loses her faith after a plane crash. She decides to go to Vegas and live the life of a sinner, and somehow finds her faith along the way. Cody was a stripper who started a blog and found a voice as a screenwriter, which led to her breakout effort in writing Juno and emerging as a quite interesting screenwriting voice. She followed with Jennifer’s Body, a movie that didn’t hit, and most recently reteamed with Juno helmer Jason Reitman on Young Adult. Read More »

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Will Diablo Cody Follow Agent Out Of Gersh?

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday October 21, 2010 @ 8:54am PDTTags: Agents, David Kopple, Diablo Cody, Gersh Agency Departures, Marc Webb, Sarah Self, Sarah Self Diablo Cody, Sarah Self Gersh
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Self, the well-regarded agent who reps Juno scribe Diablo Cody and regularly packages books for movies, has resigned from Gersh. She dropped the bomb last night. Word is already swirling that she might go to CAA, but Self has time on her contract and she has to be … Read More »

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Paramount Gets Custody Of ‘Young Adult’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday October 7, 2010 @ 5:05pm PDTTags: Charlize Theron, Diablo Cody, Jason Reitman, Jason Reitman Young Adult, Movie Deals, Movies, Paramount Pictures, Patrick Wilson, Young Adult
Mike Fleming

Paramount Pictures acquired world rights to Mandate Pictures’ Young Adult, the pic that reteams Juno scribe Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman. Deadline broke the story about the film … Read More »

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‘Juno’ Reteam Puts Charlize Theron At Center of Jason Reitman-Diablo Cody Pic

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 2, 2010 @ 6:07pm PDTTags: Charlize Theron, Diablo Cody, High School, Jason Reitman, Jason Reitman Young Adult, Mandate Pictures, Young Adult
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: The Juno team of director Jason Reitman, screenwriter Diablo Cody, Mandate Pictures and the production company Mr. Mudd are teaming again on Young Adult with Charlize Theron starring. The film’s being produced by Cody, Mason Novick, Lianne Halfon and Russell Smith of John Malkovich’s Mr. Mudd banner. Mandate’s Nathan Kahane and Malkovich are exec producers. I’m told that Reitman has brought in Indian Paintbrush’s Steven Rales to possibly co-finance with Mandate and he will be an exec producer as well. Several studios are interested in making the picture, but it hasn’t crystallized yet. The plan is to get the film into production in New York on November 10 if all works out, with Reitman directing. Cody won an Oscar for her Juno script and Reitman was also nominated. Read More »

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More from “Attention-Starved” Diablo Cody

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Sunday July 18, 2010 @ 11:10am PDTTags: Diablo Cody, Video

That’s how the Juno screenwriter describes herself these days. And she’s started an Internet talk show:

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