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Jonathan Groff And Joe Mantello Join HBO’s Ryan Murphy Pic ‘The Normal Heart’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday April 26, 2013 @ 3:00pm PDTTags: HBO, Joe Mantello, Jonathan Groff, Ryan Murphy, The Normal Heart
Nellie Andreeva

Glee‘s Jonathan Groff and Joe Mantello have been cast in The Normal Heart, HBO‘s original movie adaptation of the Tony-winning Larry Kramer play, which is being written by Kramer and directed by Ryan Murphy. They join Julia Roberts, Mark Ruffalo, Matt Bomer, Jim Parsons and Taylor Kitsch in the pic, which tells the story of the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s. Production is slated to begin later this year in New York for a 2014 debut.

Groff, repped by WME, already has a gig with HBO, having been cast as a lead in the premium network’s Michael Lannen pilot, which revolves around three thirtysomething friends living in San Francisco who grapple with the complexities of the modern gay experience. In Normal Heart he will play Craig, the first lover of Bruce Niles (Kitsch), an early victim of HIV-AIDS. Mantello will play Mickey Marcus, an instrumental member of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis.

Murphy executive produces with Jason Blum, Dede Gardner and Dante Di Loreto.

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Jonathan Groff Tapped For Disney’s ‘Frozen’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday December 19, 2012 @ 8:56am PSTTags: Frozen, Jonathan Groff, Walt Disney Animation Studios

Jonathan Groff will voice the extreme mountain man Kristoff in Walt Disney Animation Studios‘ 3D comedy-adventure Frozen, which is set to premiere November 27, 2013. Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel already are aboard for the pic, which … Read More »

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Sanaa Lathan & Jonathan Groff Join Starz’s ‘Boss’ As New Regulars For Second Season

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday February 6, 2012 @ 10:44am PSTTags: Boss, Jonathan Groff, Starz
Nellie Andreeva

Sanaa Lathan and Glee heartthrob Jonathan Groff have landed new regular roles on the second season of Starz’s drama series Boss. The Lionsgate TV-produced series stars recent Golden Globe winner … Read More »

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Anonymous Content Lands Management Trio To Bolster Talent Roster

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday April 14, 2011 @ 1:21pm PDTTags: Adrianne Palicki, Anna Faris, Anonymous Content, Bill Condon, Cary Fukunaga, David Slade, Doug Wald, Emma Stone, Jonathan Groff, Joseph Kosinski, Katie Cassidy, Lorene Scafaria, Marc Webb, Matt Bomer, Max Minghella, Nathan Lane, Patrick Wilson, Paul Dano, Penn Badgley, Richard Linklater, Robert Pulcini, Robin Wright, Sam Worthington, Samuel L. Jackson, Sandra Chang, Scott Z. Burns, Shari Springer Berman, Stanley Tucci, Steve Golin, Steven Soderbergh, Tony Lipp, William Monahan
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Management/production company Anonymous Content is about to make a major play in the talent game. I’m hearing that Doug Wald is leaving his partnership at Raw Talent, Sandra Chang is leaving as partner at Industry Entertainment, and Tony Lipp is leaving CAA. The trio will lead Anonymous Content’s talent division and create a major infusion of acting clients. It is all taking shape today.

Lipp announced internally on Tuesday that he would leave CAA to be a manager. Wald and Chang dropped the bombshells this morning at their respective management companies. Anonymous has a modest talent business that included four managers and clients like Samuel L. Jackson, Robin Wright, Katie Cassidy, Omar Epps and Adrianne Palicki (just cast as Wonder Woman). The newcomers will greatly expand that list, and a lot of it is emerging talent. Among the actors already set to join: Sam Worthington, Paul Dano, Emma Stone, Penn Badgley, Anna Faris, Max Minghella, Jack Quaid, Patrick Wilson, Justin Chambers, Jessica Walter, Jaime King, Matt Bomer, John Cleese, Blythe Danner, Jonathan Groff, Mamie Gummer, Nathan Lane, Simon Russell Beale and Stanley Tucci. Read More »

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Several Pilots Get Showrunners

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday February 15, 2011 @ 7:13am PSTTags: ABC Poe, Cooper & Stone, Cooper & Stone Pilot, John Wirth Cooper & Stone, Jonathan Groff, Kyle Killen, My Frickin' Family, My Frickin' Family Pilot, REM Pilot, TV, TV Deals, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

Human Target executive producer Brad Kern has been tapped as executive producer/showrunner on ABC’s drama pilot Poe. The crime procedural, from writer-exec producer Chris Hollier, Warner Bros. TV and Dan Lin’s Lin Pictures, follows Edgar Allan Poe, the world’s … Read More »

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