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John Requa & Glenn Ficarra To Direct ABC’s Cullen Brothers Comedy Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday February 5, 2013 @ 6:18pm PSTTags: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: In their pilot directing debut, feature directors John Requa and Glenn Ficarra are set to helm and executive produce ABC’s Cullen brothers single-camera comedy pilot. Additionally, joining the cast of the multi-generational family comedy, which locked in James Caan earlier today, is Ben Koldyke (How I Met Your Mother, Big Love). Requa and Ficarra, who wrote and directed I Love You Phillip Morris, wrote Bad Santa and directed Crazy, Stupid, Love, were hotly pursued for pilots this season.

The Cullen brothers project, from 20th TV, centers on Terry Gannon, a recently divorced single mother who temporarily moves in with her estranged father (Caan), a beer-swilling former baseball player. She reluctantly starts coaching her son Tommy’s (Griffin Gluck) underdog Little League team and is drawn back into the world of sports she vowed to leave behind. Koldyke will play Dick Slingbaugh, the macho, handsome Little League coach who’s more than a little full of himself. This marks Koldyke’s return to ABC where he starred in the ill-fated comedy Work It last season. He is with Gersh and Brian Medavoy. The Cullen brothers are executive producing the pilot with Aaron Kaplan of Kapital Entertainment, Requa and Ficarra. Charlie Gogolak, Requa and Ficarra’s producing partner at Zaftig Films, serves as producer. WME-repped Requa and Ficarra have been prepping con-artist feature comedy Focus starring Kristen Stewart.

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Warner Bros Sets Mechanism Designed To Generate More Animated Films

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday January 7, 2013 @ 12:47pm PSTTags: Animation, Glenn Ficarra, John Requa, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

In an effort to catch up with the animated films being generated at other studios, Warner Bros has formed what it calls a feature animation creative consortium. They’ve identified a core group of filmmakers to form a Justice … Read More »

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