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New Line Tunes Up C&W Love Story To Follow ‘Rock Of Ages’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday April 27, 2012 @ 3:39pm PDTTags: Adam Shankman, Jennifer Gibgot, New Line, Rock of Ages
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: New Line has reunited with Rock Of Ages team at Offspring Entertainment to option an untitled pitch that will do for Country & Western music what Rock of Ages did to 80s hair band anthems. The film will be scripted by Brandon Camp, whose credits include Love Happens and Dragonfly, and Offspring’s Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot will produce. Shankman directed Rock of Ages, which New Line adapted from the Broadway show, and which Warner Bros releases June 15. Offspring president Matt Smith will be executive producer, and brought in the project.

Camp will write a Nicholas Sparks-esque love story in which the characters break into C&W standards from Taylor Swift to Johnny Cash. UTA reps Camp.

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Skydance Acquires ‘Bad In Bed’ Pitch

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday November 14, 2011 @ 11:42am PSTTags: Adam Shankman, Barbra Streisand, Brad Pitt, Chris Pine, Dana Goldberg, David Ellison, Jennifer Gibgot, Seth Rogen, Steve Golin, Tom Cruise
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: David Ellison’s Skydance Productions has made a preemptive acquisition of Bad In Bed. The comedy pitch will be written by Pamela Falk and Michael Ellis, the scribes behind The Wedding Planner. They describe it as a racy high concept … Read More »

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Oscarcast Team Of Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin, Adam Shankman Plot Pic

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday October 4, 2011 @ 10:54am PDTTags: Adam Shankman, Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Gibgot, Meryl Streep, Steve Martin
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: New Line Cinema is in early talks to acquire a pitch for a comedy vehicle that would re-team 2010 Oscarcast hosts Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin with Adam Shankman, who will direct and who produced the Oscars that year. … Read More »

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Adam Shankman Exits Disney For New Line

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Tuesday May 10, 2011 @ 3:28pm PDTTags: Adam Shankman, Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Gibgot, New Line Cinema, Production Deal, Rock of Ages

The move follows a legal wrangle that took weeks to unravel about negotiating his exit from Disney, some money owing to Sony, and a new pact with New Line to host his production banner that took weeks to unravel. Adam Shankman’s … Read More »

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Scott Speer ‘Steps Up’ To Direct Dance Pic

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday May 3, 2011 @ 11:54am PDTTags: Adam Shankman, Erik Feig, Jennifer Gibgot, Jon Chu, Patrick Wachsberger, Scott Speer
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Summit Entertainment has set Scott Speer to direct the fourth installment of the Step Up franchise. Like the last one, Step Up 4 will be done in 3D. The new film will be set in the backdrop of Miami. … Read More »

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