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Jack Black And Shine America To Produce Paranormal Web Comedy Series For Yahoo

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday December 17, 2012 @ 4:00am PSTTags: Big Deals TV, Jack Black, Shine America, Yahoo
Nellie Andreeva

Production has started on Ghost Ghirls, a Web comedy series from Shine America and Jack Black’s Electric Dynamite Prods, which is set to debut in spring 2013 on Yahoo! Screen.

Black, as well as Jake Johnson, Molly Shannon, Jason Schwartzman and other celebrities, are set to make cameo appearances in Ghost Ghirls, a comedic take on popular paranormal procedurals like Medium and Ghost Whisperer. The project, originally developed as a TV series for Syfy last year, chronicles the antics of two young female ghostbusters, played by Amanda Lund and Maria Blasucci (two-women improv show BEANS!) — a pair of investigators attempting to solve the mysteries behind paranormal phenomena. At the same time, they attempt to convince their clients, other-worldly visitors and themselves that they are legit. READ MORE »

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FX Buys Military Academy Comedy From Jack Black’s Company And Shine America

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday October 26, 2012 @ 11:32am PDTTags: FX, Jack Black, Shine America
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: FX has put in development an untitled coming-of-age comedy from Shine America and Jack Black‘s Electric Dynamite. Steve Agee (The Sarah Silverman Program) and Rob Schrab (Children’s Hospital) are co-writing the project, said to be tonally … Read More »

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SyFy Developing Paranormal Procedural Comedy Spoof Produced By Jack Black

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday November 21, 2011 @ 7:17am PSTTags: Jack Black, Syfy
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Syfy continues to build a comedy development slate as the cable network is yet to greenlight its first half-hour pilot. Syfy’s latest comedy buy is Ghost Ghirls, a project … Read More »

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Millennium Entertainment Taps Vicky Eguia To Run Publicity

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday November 18, 2011 @ 7:34am PSTTags: Bob Berney, Elgin James, Jack Black, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Oren Moverman, Richard Linklater
Mike Fleming

Vicky Eguia has been named vice president of publicity at Millennium Entertainment, reporting to marketing head Brooke Ford. Eguia most recently had been publicity veep at Apparition and before that served stints at Newmarket Films and Picturehouse with former Apparition chief Bob Berney. Under CEO Bill Lee, Millennium has gotten … Read More »

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AFM: Sony Group Pacts For Michael Winterbottom’s Jack Black Comedy ‘Bailout’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday November 3, 2011 @ 8:13am PDTTags: AFM, Jack Black, Michael Winterbottom, Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions

Culver City, CA (November 3, 2011) – Ealing Metro has struck a multi-territory deal with Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) on Michael Winterbottom’s (Trishna, The Trip, 24 Hour Party People) eagerly anticipated comedy BAILOUT starring Jack Black (School of

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Spoof: Clinton Foundation Celebrity Division

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Tuesday October 18, 2011 @ 12:44am PDTTags: Ben Stiller, Bill Clinton, Funny or Die, Jack Black, Kevin Spacey, Kristen Wiig, Mary Steenburgen, Matt Damon, Sean Penn, Ted Danson

This Funny Or Die video from writer-director Josh Greenbaum explains why non-liberal America hates Hollywood. Featuring Matt Damon, Sean Penn, Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, Jack Black, and Kevin Spacey. Wait for the scene with Bill:

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Former ‘Daily Show’ EP Josh Lieb Sells Comedy To NBC With Nick Thune, Another One To Fox Produced By Jack Black’s Co.

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday October 7, 2011 @ 4:50pm PDTTags: Fox, Jack Black, NBC, Nick Thune, Reveille, Warner Bros. Television
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Former Daily Show executive producer Josh Lieb has sold two multi-camera comedy projects — one at NBC with actor-comedian Nick Thune and one at Fox that Jack Black’s company is producing. Both hail from Warner Bros Television.

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TOLDJA! Jack Black Pic ‘Bernie’ Acquired By Millennium Entertainment

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday September 29, 2011 @ 10:37am PDTTags: Bernie, Jack Black, Los Angeles Film Festival, Matthew McConaughey, Richard Linklater, Shirley MacLaine
Mike Fleming

Deadline revealed in July that Millennium Entertainment was buying U.S. distribution rights to the Los Angeles Film Festival’s opening film Bernie, the Richard Linklater-directed movie that stars Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine and Matthew McConaughey, for a low-seven-figure minimum guarantee and $1 million P&A commitment. Millennium has finally confirmed the deal. Here’s the official announcement: Read More »

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Obama Steps Up 2012 Hollywood Fundraising

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Tuesday September 27, 2011 @ 11:58am PDTTags: Aaron Sorkin, Barack Obama, Danny DeVito, Eva Longoria, Jack Black, Jamie Foxx, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Jon Landau, Judd Apatow, Modern Family, Rhea Perlman

GOP Candidates Seeking Hollywood Help

“We were discussing the new season of Glee,” tweeted Modern Family‘s Jesse Tyler Ferguson about what he and President Obama said to one another last night at the Sunset Strip’s House of Blues. It’s where the actor emceed one of two Hollywood fundraisers for Obama’s re-election campaign Monday. According to a White House pool report, Obama greeted Ferguson, turned to the microphone, and said, “I was telling him that Michelle and the girls love them some Modern Family.” Some in the crowd chanted “Four more years”. Roughly 900 people paid ticket prices starting at $250 and as much as $10,000 (to secure a photo with the president).

The second fundraiser cost $17,900 for each of the 120 people in attendance at Melrose Avenue’s Fig & Olive restaurant. The private event’s co-hosts included Hollywood producer Jeffrey Katzenberg, his longtime political adviser Andy Spahn, and Tennis Channel CEO Ken Solomon. “I’m going to need your help, so don’t get tired on me now,” Obama was quoted by a pool report as telling showbiz attendees like Judd Apatow, Aaron Sorkin, Jamie Foxx, Jack Black, Eva Longoria, Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, and Jon Landau (producer of Avatar and Titanic). “I urge some of you to watch the Republican debates,” Obama added.

Obama received a standing ovation from the industry types seated at round tables with white table linens. But news of the president’s impending Hollywood fundraising was punctuated by several media articles proclaiming that Tinseltown support for him had eroded greatly since 2008. Recently Democratic activists like Robert Redford, Matt Damon, and Michael Moore have criticized Obama’s inability to stay the liberal course. Katzenberg seemed to address that disappointment when he introduced Obama by saying, “We must keep fighting for him so he can keep fighting for us.” Katzenberg also noted, “I have a dependency on President Obama. He inherited a crashing economy and two wars and opponents who questioned if he was even born (in the U.S.). Yet he kept us moving forward. He was dealt adversity on all fronts, but he maintained his stature.” Read More »

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Charlie Kaufman Attaches Steve Carell, Jack Black And Nicolas Cage To ‘Frank Or Francis’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday July 22, 2011 @ 11:42am PDTTags: Charlie Kaufman, Jack Black, Nicolas Cage, Steve Carell
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Charlie Kaufman is attaching Jack Black and Nicolas Cage and is talking to Steve Carell to star in  Frank Or Francis, the next film Kaufman will direct.  Kaufman’s projects are always shrouded in mystery (sometimes even after you’ve seen … Read More »

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Millennium Buying ‘Bernie’ With Jack Black

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday July 14, 2011 @ 6:51pm PDTTags: Avi Lerner, Bernie, Cinetic, Graham Taylor, Jack Black, John Sloss, Los Angeles Film Festival, Mark Gill, Matthew McConaughey, Millennium Films, Richard Linklater, Shirley MacLaine, WME Global
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: A deal is near for Millennium Entertainment to acquire U.S. distribution rights to the Los Angeles Film Festival opening-night pic Bernie. I’m told that it will be the first significant grab for former Film Department co-head Mark Gill since … Read More »

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HAMMOND On L.A. Film Festival Opening: Can It Ever Challenge Toronto Or Telluride?

By PETE HAMMOND | Friday June 17, 2011 @ 3:05am PDTTags: Bernie, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, Drive, Jack Black, James Franco, Los Angeles Film Festival, Ryan Gosling, Shirley MacLaine
Pete Hammond

Although the Cannes Film Festival just ended three weeks ago, there’s always another film fest around the corner trying to steal its thunder and become part of the cinematic conversation. On Thursday night, the Los Angeles Film Festival, now in its 17th year, opened with the world premiere of the Richard Linklater (School of Rock, Dazed and Confused) comedy Bernie, with stars Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine and Matthew McConaughey joining its writer-director in introducing the film at downtown L.A.’s LA Live Regal Cinemas, where the fest moved last year. Not that it’s easy navigating the Los Angeles freeways at rush hour to get downtown, an off-the-beaten track place to premiere your movie, but the unapologetic black comedy and true-life tale of a small-town undertaker who caters to the much-hated Texas town’s matron until he reaches for a gun was worth the herculean effort navigating the annoying traffic jams and $25 parking fee (I didn’t read the signs carefully) just to see this splendid trio of actors deliver terrific performances backed by a great supporting group of locals who won big laughs throughout.

Bernie is an acquistion title and likely will be snapped up immediately by some enterprising distributor even though it’s not an obvious commercial hit. It is Black’s best work in some time. It could develop a following on the indie circuit though, and it certainly had the crowd (which included well-wishers like Linklater friend Steven Soderbergh and wife Jules Asner) buzzing at the crowded after-party on the L.A. Live parking garage rooftop.

Film Independent (which runs the fest as well as the Spirit Awards) board members I spoke to at the premiere are hopeful Bernie could become the fest’s first big breakout acquisition title, and reps from many indie distribs were in attendance. In fact, the fest delayed announcement of its opening film until after the Cannes festival was over because producers did not want to be inundated with calls about acquiring the film during that market and wanted to wait until it could premiere cold in L.A., a big tribute to the growing clout of LAFF. Read More »

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CANNES: Jack Black Teams For ‘Bailout’ Comedy With Director Michael Winterbottom

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday May 12, 2011 @ 1:47am PDTTags: Cannes, Jack Black, Michael Winterbottom, Prescience, The King's Speech
Mike Fleming

Ealing Metro International and The King’s Speech financier Prescience will finance and sell worldwide rights on Bailout, a Michael Winterbottom-directed comedy that will star Jack Black. The film is based on the Jess Walter novel The Financial Lives of The … Read More »

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Spirit Awards Host Joel McHale Joins Seth MacFarlane’s ‘Ted’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday February 25, 2011 @ 9:37am PSTTags: Anna Faris, Jack Black, James Franco, Jessica Alba, Joel McHale, Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Movie Deals, Movies, Owen Wilson, Robert Rodriguez, Seth MacFarlane, Steve Martin
Mike Fleming

James Franco isn’t the only awards show host this weekend who has bagged a big film role. Joel McHale, who tomorrow hosts the 2011 Film Independent Spirit Awards, is in final negotiations to join Mark Walhberg, Mila Kunis and Seth … Read More »

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Adult Swim Greenlights Live-Action Pilot From Jack Black, Jason Lee And Reveille

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday December 13, 2010 @ 4:00pm PSTTags: Adult Swim, Electric Dynamite Productions, Jack Black, Jason Lee, TV
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Adult Swim has handed a pilot order to Shredd: The Jon Johnsonsen Story, a live-action comedy starring Jason Lee from Reveille and Jack Black’s Electric Dynamite. Luke Watson and … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Kung Fu Panda 2′

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday November 9, 2010 @ 6:52am PSTTags: DreamWorks Animation, Jack Black, Kung Fu Panda 2, Movies, Paramount Pictures, Trailers, Video
Mike Fleming

Jack Black, just seen in trailer form as the star of 20th Century Fox’s Gulliver’s Travels, lends his voice once again to Kung Fu Panda 2: The Kaboom of Doom, which DreamWorks Animation releases through Paramount Pictures May 26, 2011.

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Hot Trailer: ‘Gulliver’s Travels’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday November 3, 2010 @ 9:45am PDTTags: Fox, Gulliver's Travels, Jack Black, Movies, Trailers, Video
Mike Fleming

Fox is out with a new trailer for its big Christmas film, the Jack Black-starrer Gulliver’s Travels which gets released December 22:

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And In Other Film Deals…

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday October 25, 2010 @ 5:52pm PDTTags: David Berenbaum, Jack Black, Matthew Weiner, Movie Deals, Movies, You Are Here
Mike Fleming

Despite reports that Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner is gearing up his feature directorial debut You Are Here with a cast of Jack Black, Renee Zellweger and Matt Dillon, don’t dress for it. Weiner’s reps tell Deadline the project is indefinitely postponed and there is no cast set…

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NBC Comedy ‘Experiment’ With Jack Black

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday September 29, 2010 @ 11:15am PDTTags: Book-to-Movie, Cathy Yuspa, Electric Dynamite Productions, Jack Black, Josh Goldsmith, My Life as an Experiment, NBC Comedy, Sony Pictures TV, TV
Nellie Andreeva

NBC has picked up My Life As an Experiment, a half-hour comedy project produced by Jack Black and written by Cathy Yuspa and Josh Goldsmith. Based on the best-selling non-fiction book Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life As An Experiment by … Read More »

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