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It’s Official: Jim Belushi/Diane English Multicamera Comedy Goes To ABC

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday September 12, 2011 @ 2:56pm PDTTags: ABC, ABC Studios, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, Diane English, Jim Belushi
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Jim Belushi Teams With ‘Murphy Brown’ Creator For New Comedy Series Project

ABC has closed a deal for a comedy project from Murphy Brown creator Diane English starring Jim Belushi. The project, titled  You Won’t Even Know I’m Here, has received a put pilot commitment from the network. ABC Studios and studio-based Brillstein Entertainment Partners are producing. The multi-camera comedy, written by English, stars Belushi as a co-dependent father whose relationship with his teenage daughter is turned upside down when they are put together in a unique situation. English and Belushi are executive producing with Brillstein Entertainment. The project drew multiple studio bids when it hit the market last month, ultimately landing at ABC Studios/Brillstein, the companies that also produced Belushi’s long-running ABC sitcom According to Jim. ABC, which has new comedy Last Man Standing starring Tim Allen launching next week, continues to load up on comedy projects fronted by veteran comedy stars this development season. The network last week gave a put pilot commitment to Malibu Country, starring Reba McEntire, and also has a pilot starring Kristie Alley in the hopper.

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Jim Belushi Teams With ‘Murphy Brown’ Creator For New Comedy Series Project

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday August 16, 2011 @ 10:17am PDTTags: ABC Studios, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, Diane English, Jim Belushi
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: After taking a stab at light drama with CBS’ The Defenders, former According to Jim star Jim Belushi is returning to comedy with a new … Read More »

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Italian Tonino Guerra Will Receive WGA’s Jean Renoir Award

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday January 24, 2011 @ 10:06am PSTTags: Diane English, Movies, WGA

UPDATE: The WGA continues to line up its award recipients. On Monday, the guild said that Amarcord screenwriter Tonino Guerra would receive the Jean Renoir Award for Screenwriting Achievement, an international honor. The 90-year-old writer won’t be attending the event, held February 5 at the Renaissance Hollywood. Last week, the WGA announced it would be honoring Diane English and Steve Zaillian. Releases below:

 Los Angeles — Iconic Italian screenwriter Tonino Guerra has been named the recipient of the Writers Guild of America, West’s 2011 Jean Renoir Award for Screenwriting Achievement, given to an international writer who has advanced the literature of motion pictures and made outstanding contributions to the profession of screenwriter. Along with other Guild honorees, Guerra will be feted at the 2011 Writers Guild Awards West Coast ceremony on Saturday, February 5, 2011, in Hollywood.

In creative collaboration with some of the most prominent directors in world cinema, including Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Andrey Tarkovsky, Francesco Rosi, and Theodoros Angelopoulos, prolific screenwriter, author, poet, and artist Guerra has penned over 100 screenplays during a career spanning six decades.

“Tonino Guerra is by any standard one of the great writers of our times. His medium is the screenplay. He has written or co-written more than a hundred films, among them L’avventura, La notte, L’eclisse, Red Desert, Blow-Up, and Zabriskie Point for Antonioni; Amarcord for Fellini; Nostalghia for Tarkovsky; Landscapes in the Mist for Angelopoulos; and Exquisite Corpses for Rosi. Guerra’s work is the brave and moral thread that runs through the fabric of modernist cinema. He is a breathtaking poet, a generous collaborator, and is possessed of the largest heart. We are fortunate to have him among us and thrilled to honor his astonishing – and astonishingly influential – body of work,” said WGAW Board of Directors member Howard A. Rodman.

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