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James L. Brooks’ Gracie Films Buys ‘Besties’ Spec

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday March 30, 2011 @ 2:55pm PDTTags: Besties, James L. Brooks
Mike Fleming

James L. Brooks’ Gracie Films has made a mid six-figure preemptive deal for Besties, a spec script by Kelly Fremon. Part of the deal is she’s attached to make her directing debut. The script is a John Hughes-style comedy about two high school girls who are best friends until one dates the other’s older brother, who is totally his sister’s nemesis. Brooks was the first person the script got sent to, and he’s expected to mentor Fremon as she makes the jump to director. Gracie made the buy, but the company’s films go through Sony Pictures. Brooks will produce with Julie Ansell.

As a writer, Fremon has one produced feature credit, the 2009 Fox Searchlight comedy Post Grad. She has also written The Good Life, another script for Searchlight, and The Best Mistakes for Level 1. On the small screen, Fremon wrote the pilot  Lovehamption for the CW and Alloy Entertainment and she’s working on a pilot script with CBS Television Studios and Samuel L. Jackson’s Uppity TV banner. ICM and Kaplan Perrone made the deal.

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Hot Trailer: ‘How Do You Know’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 30, 2010 @ 4:46pm PDTTags: How Do You Know, Jack Nicholson, James L. Brooks, Owen Wilson, Reese Witherspoon, Sony Pictures, Trailers, Video
Mike Fleming

James L. Brooks is back with How Do You Know, a relationship comedy from Sony Pictures that reunites Brooks with Jack Nicholson. Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd and Owen Wilson also star. The film opens December 17.

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Tom Sherak Re-Elected AMPAS President

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 4, 2010 @ 4:27am PDTTags: Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, James L. Brooks, Oscar Best Picture, Oscar Best Picture Category, Oscar Rule Changes, Oscars, Sid Ganis, Tom Sherak, Tom Sherak AMPAS
Mike Fleming

It was hardly a cliffhanger, but Tom Sherak was reelected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He was voted in last night by the Academy Board of Governors along with Sid Ganis (first vice president), James L. Brooks, (vice president) Phil Robinson (vice president), Hawk Koch (treasurer) and Annette Bening (secretary). Sherak’s first term was marked by the Academy’s controversial decision to expand the Best Picture category to 10 films, for which Sherak was a proponent. While widening the field gave some extra attention to films like District 9, The Blind Side, Inglourious Basterds and Up In The Air, the extra five films were not at all a factor in what really became a two-horse race between Avatar and Best Picture winner The Hurt Locker. Read More »

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