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HBO Picks Up Aaron Sorkin Pilot To Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday September 8, 2011 @ 10:50am PDTTags: Aaron Sorkin, Alan Poul, Emily Mortimer, Greg Mottola, HBO, Jeff Daniels, Scott Rudin
Nellie Andreeva

It’s official: HBO has picked up Aaron Sorkin’s hourlong cable news network pilot to series. The now untitled drama (formerly More As This Story Develops), which has been a virtual lock for a series order, centers on a cable news anchor (Jeff Daniels), his new executive producer (Emily Mortimer), his newsroom staff (Alison Pill, John Gallagher Jr, Olivia Munn, Dev Patel, Thomas Sadoski), and their boss (Sam Waterston). Together they set out on a patriotic and quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles and their own personal entanglements. The size of the order for the series is yet to be determined, but it should be around 10 episodes.

Sorkin wrote the pilot after lengthy research during which he spent time at Keith Olbermann’s and Chris Matthews’ MSNBC shows as well as behind the scenes at Fox News Channel and CNN programs. Sorkin executive produced the pilot, which was directed by Greg Mottola, with Scott Rudin and Alan Poul. This is Sorkin’s fourth series after Sports Night, the Emmy-winning The West Wing and Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip, and the first one on cable. Sorkin, who won an Academy Award in March for penning The Social Network, is now the second writer-creator to do an HBO series right after winning an Oscar. Alan Ball followed his Academy Award for American Beauty with HBO’s Six Feet Under.

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Alan Poul Inks Overall Deal With HBO, Joins Aaron Sorkin’s Cable News Pilot As EP

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday April 11, 2011 @ 3:47pm PDTTags: Aaron Sorkin, Alan Poul, Greg Mottola, HBO, HBO Aaron Sorkin, HBO Aaron Sorkin Pilot, More As This Story Develops, Scott Rudin, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Six Feet Under alum Alan Poul is back at HBO with an overall deal. As part of it, the producer-director is set to executive produce Aaron Sorkin’s HBO pilot. Tentatively titled More As This Story Develops, the project centers … Read More »

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Greg Mottola To Direct Aaron Sorkin’s HBO Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday March 28, 2011 @ 5:29pm PDTTags: Aaron Sorkin, Greg Mottola, HBO, Jeff Daniels, Pilot, Scott Rudin
Nellie Andreeva

Greg Mottola is set to direct Aaron Sorkin’s HBO drama pilot set behind the scenes at a cable news show. The project, which recent Oscar winner Sorkin is executive producing with Scott Rudin, centers on news anchor … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Paul’

By TIM ADLER in London | Tuesday December 21, 2010 @ 7:51am PSTTags: Greg Mottola, Movies, Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, Trailers, Universal, Video

Universal has released a trailer for the Greg Mottola-directed Paul, the 3rd film from Brit comedy team Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead), This time they play 2 sci-fi geeks whose pilgrimage takes them to America’s UFO heartland, where they help an alien (voiced by … Read More »

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Comic-Con #14: The ‘Paul’ Panel

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday July 25, 2010 @ 9:52pm PDTTags: Comic-Con, Comic-Con Convention, Greg Mottola, Jason Bateman, Jeffrey Tambor, Joe Lo Truglio, Kristen Wiig, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen, Shaun of the Dead, Sigourney Weaver, Simon Pegg

Luke Y Thompson is covering the Con for Deadline:

PAUL is a road-trip comedy written by (and starring) Nick Frost and Simon Pegg, who are treated like absolute royalty by fans here. (Proof that what plays well at Comic-Con doesn’t always make it huge elsewhere; see also: “Filion, Nathan”). But PAUL is a perfect Comic-Con movie, because it actually begins at Comic-Con, as our lead duo take a road trip from San Diego to Area 51, where they pick up an escaping alien called Paul. Read More »

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