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Zach Cregger Joins NBC’s ‘Assistance’, Frances Fisher Boards ABC’s ‘The Returned’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday March 1, 2013 @ 8:15pm PSTTags: Frances Fisher, Gary Sanchez Productions, Krysten Ritter, Zack Cregger
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Guys With Kids‘ Zach Cregger is set to co-star opposite Krysten Ritter in NBC‘s single-camera comedy pilot Assistance, from Gary Sanchez Prods. and Universal TV. Written by Leslye Headland, Assistance centers on Nora (Ritter), an idealistic “working girl” assistant who is pulled between her colleague (Cregger) and her real-life fiance (Peter Cambor) while trying to manage a demanding boss. Cregger’s casting is in second position to Guys With Kids. Both projects are with NBC/Universal TV. I hear that was important to Cregger who wanted to remain loyal to his current series and didn’t entertain interest from pilots on other nets. Cregger, repped by WME and Principato-Young, is starring in the Lionsgate film Gay Dude as well as the indie The Bounceback, which premiers at the SXSW film festival. He is a founding member and creator of the sketch group The Whitest Kidsu’know.

Frances Fisher has been cast in ABC’s drama pilot The Returned, from Brillstein Entertainment, Brad Pitt’s Plan B and ABC Studios. Written by Aaron Zelman and directed by Charles McDougall, the project chronicles how the lives of the people in Arcadia are forever changed when their deceased loved ones return. Fisher, repped by Greene & Assoc., Sanders Armstrong Caserta and attorney Jeff Bernstein, will play Lucille, who lives with her husband Harold in Arcadia and is amazed when her eight year old son, Jacob, who drowned 32 years ago, somehow reappears in 2013. She will next be seen in the features The Host and You’re Not You.

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Andrea Savage To Create & Star In Comedy Central Project Produced By Gary Sanchez

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday February 11, 2013 @ 12:12pm PSTTags: Andrea Savage, Big Deals TV, Comedy Central, Gary Sanchez Productions
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Comedy Central has put in development River Dogs, a comedy written, executive produced by and starring actress-comedian Andrea Savage (Dinner For Schmucks). Produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s Gary Sanchez Prods, River … Read More »

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Comedy Central Picks Up ‘Drunk History’ To Series, Renews ‘Workaholics’ For 2 Seasons

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday January 5, 2013 @ 3:45pm PSTTags: Comedy Central, Gary Sanchez Productions, Workaholics
Nellie Andreeva

Viral hit Drunk History is becoming a TV series. Comedy Central has given an eight-episode series pickup to the project after originally ordering a pilot presentation in the spring. The announcement was made at TCA where the … Read More »

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Will Ferrell, Adam McKay & Anne Heche To Produce Female-Centered Comedy For NBC

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday November 13, 2012 @ 12:23pm PSTTags: Anne Heche, Big Deals TV, Gary Sanchez Productions, NBC
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s Gary Sanchez Prods has teamed with actress Anne Heche to produce Bad Judge, a single-camera half-hour comedy for NBC. Written by Chad Kultgen (The Incredible Burt Wonderstone), Bad Judge is based on an idea brought to Gary Sanchez by Heche. It centers on a hard-living, sexually unapologetic woman who plays with the law, and whose life on the edge is constantly in balance as she also happens to be a judge in the Criminal Court system. Universal Television, where Gary Sanchez has a deal, is producing. Heche and Jill Messick will executive produce alongside Ferrell and McKay. Read More »

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NBC Buys Workplace Comedy From Gary Sanchez Prods & Writer Leslye Headland

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday September 14, 2012 @ 4:31pm PDTTags: Gary Sanchez Productions, NBC
Nellie Andreeva

NBC has put in development Assistance, a single-camera comedy from Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s Gary Sanchez Prods. It will be written by Leslye Headland who wrote and directed the feature Bachelorette, also produced by Gary Sanchez. Read More »

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Disney Acquires Pitch From Gary Sanchez Productions And ‘Happy Endings’ Duo Adam Pally And Gil Ozeri

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday September 7, 2012 @ 11:05am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Disney, Gary Sanchez Productions
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Disney has bought an untitled comedy pitch from Adam Pally and Gil Ozeri for Adam McKay and Will Ferrell’s Gary Sanchez Productions to produce. Pally and Ozeri … Read More »

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Why Didn’t Warner Bros Silence Gunshots?

By NIKKI FINKE AND DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday August 8, 2012 @ 3:31pm PDTTags: Gary Sanchez Productions, The Campaign, Warner Bros

Maybe Hollywood should be extra careful in light of recent events. Or at least extra sensitive. This weekend, movie theatre audiences may be disturbed by the first … Read More »

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Red Band Trailer: ‘Bachelorette’

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday August 2, 2012 @ 11:07am PDTTags: Adam McKay, Bachelorette, Bridesmaids, Gary Sanchez Productions, Will Ferrell

The Bridesmaids rip-offs were inevitable. Will Ferrell and Adam McKay through their Gary Sanchez productions just released the red band trailer for Bachelorette starring Kirsten Dunst, Lizzy Caplan, Isla Fisher, and James Marsden. Written by ex-Harvey Weinstein assistant Leslye Headland (FX’s Terriers), the low-budget indie generated some buzz … Read More »

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Last Exorcism Duo Spins ‘Wheels’ At Sony Pictures Entertainment

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday December 7, 2010 @ 12:34pm PSTTags: Andrew Gurland, Gary Sanchez Productions, Movies, Principato Young, Sony Pictures Entertainment
Mike Fleming

Low-budget high-concept filmmakers Andrew Gurland and Huck Botko have been set by Sony Pictures Entertainment to write and direct Wheels, a high school road movie that will be produced by Gary Sanchez Productions and Principato-Young. Gurland and Botko wrote and produced The Last Exorcism and wrote and directed The Virginity … Read More »

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Will & Zach Political Comedy Pitch Bought

By NIKKI FINKE AND MIKE FLEMING JR | Sunday December 5, 2010 @ 7:35am PSTTags: Gary Sanchez Productions, Jay Roach, Jay Roach Political Comedy, Movie Deals, Movies, Warner Bros, Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has won the auction for the untitled pitch package for Recount’s Jay Roach to direct Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis as rival candidates in a comedy timed for release in the heat of the 2012 Presidential elections. … Read More »

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HBO Develops ‘Band’ Comedy With Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Lizzy Caplan

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday July 29, 2010 @ 4:50pm PDTTags: Adam McKay, Cable TV, Funny or Die, Gary Sanchez Productions, HBO, HBO Comedy Series, HBO Development, Lizzy Caplan, Party Down, TV, Will Ferrell
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: HBO is teaming with Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s Gary Sanchez and actress Lizzy Caplan to develop a comedy series project based on actress/writer Julie Klausner’s memoir I Don’t Care About Your Band. The project is eyed … Read More »

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