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Trio Cast In Fox Pilot ‘Wild Blue’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday March 1, 2013 @ 6:00pm PSTTags: Michael Dinner, Taylor Elmore, Wild Blue
Nellie Andreeva

Josh Salatin, Will Rothhaar and Alano Miller have been cast in Fox’s drama pilot Wild Blue, written by Taylor Elmore and directed by Michael Dinner. The Sony Pictures TV-produced project is described as an upstairs/downstairs look at pressure-cooker lives in the U.S. Navy. It’s a young ensemble about the working men and women on board an aircraft carrier equipped with a 500-foot landing strip, a nuclear reactor and 6000 souls on board. Salatin, repped by UTA and The Group, will play Vandal, a charming and arrogant aviator. Rothhaar, repped by Innovative and Sanders Armstrong Casterta, will play James, who lives below deck in tough conditions. Miller, repped by Abrams Artists, will play Joaquin, a recently promoted Non Commissioned Officer.

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Graham Yost & Michael Dinner Join Fox’s ‘Bridge’; Net Developing 2 Aircraft Carrier Dramas

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday October 15, 2012 @ 10:38am PDTTags: Fox, Graham Yost, Michael Dinner, The Bridge
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: It looks like Fox brass are determined to get an aircraft carrier drama on the air. Last season, the network put in development The Bridge, from writer Taylor Elmore (Justified), producer Mark Johnson and Sony Pictures TV. The project, described as a high-octane soap with a touch of Upstairs, Downstairs set on a Navy aircraft carrier, didn’t go to pilot but the network kept it in contention, rolling in to this season. Now Justified executive producers Graham Yost and Michael Dinner have boarded the drama to help with the rewrite, giving it additional clout. Both will executive produce, with Dinner also attached to direct. Elmore is still the writer, with Johnson and his Gran Via still attached, along with Sony TV.

Meanwhile, in August, Fox bought another drama from high-profile auspices with a similar setting, giving a script commitment with penalty to a project from House executive producers Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner and 20th Century Fox TV. Set on a naval aircraft carrier, the untitled show also has an upstairs/downstairs dynamic: the “downstairs” is filled with 18- to 20-year-olds, their coming-of-age stories heightened by the life-and-death nature of their everyday jobs; the “upstairs” is anchored by a female fighter pilot and her season-long quest to solve a murder that occurs onboard. Read More »

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Michael Dinner Inks New Deal With Sony TV

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday July 11, 2012 @ 8:15am PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Michael Dinner, Sony Pictures TV
Nellie Andreeva

Michael Dinner Sony TVEXCLUSIVE: Director-producer Michael Dinner has inked a new two-year overall deal with Sony Pictures Television. He has been under overall pacts at Sony TV since 2005, developing and directing pilots for network and cable. Dinner executive … Read More »

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NBC Buys Mystery Drama Penned By ‘Moonlight’ Co-Creator, Helmed By Michael Dinner & Produced By Sam Raimi

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday October 19, 2011 @ 11:00am PDTTags: Michael Dinner, NBC, Sam Raimi, Sony TV
Nellie Andreeva

NBC has bought Vanish, a mystery drama from Moonlight co-creator Trevor Munson, Sony TV and Sam Raimi and Josh Donen’s studio-based Star Road banner. Michael Dinner, who is under an … Read More »

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FX Developing PI Drama From Charlie Huston And Michael Dinner

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday September 26, 2011 @ 8:14am PDTTags: Charlie Huston, Circle of Confusion, FX, Michael Dinner, Sony Pictures TV
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: FX has bought Furlough, an original drama series pitch from crime novelist/comic book writer Charlie Huston and The Walking Dead producer Circle of Confusion. Michael Dinner is attached to … Read More »

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FX’s ‘Outlaw Country’ To Do Pilot Reshoots

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday June 14, 2011 @ 8:58am PDTTags: Adam Arkin, FX, John Hawkes, Luke Grimes, Mary Steenburgen, Michael Dinner, Outlaw Country
Nellie Andreeva

FX’s pilot Outlaw Country is undergoing a retooling. The original script, written by Josh Goldin and Rachel Abramowitz, has been given a rewrite by Goldin, Abramowitz and Outlaw Country‘s executive producer/co-showrunner David Manson. There will be substantial reshoots, which … Read More »

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Mosaic Manager Ann Blanchard Joining CAA

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Saturday March 19, 2011 @ 2:22pm PDTTags: Alexa Junge, Amy Brenneman, Ed Redlich, Hollywood managers, Michael Dinner, TV producers, TV showrunners, TV Writers, William Morris Agency

EXCLUSIVE (UPDATED BELOW): There’s been no announcement yet. But Ann Blanchard is already being accused of breaking Hollywood protocol by not first informing those agents repping her Mosaic Media Group’s TV management clients of her change of employment. Instead, she’s calling … Read More »

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FX Picks Up Comic-Based ‘Powers’ To Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday February 26, 2011 @ 9:27am PSTTags: FX, FX Pilots, Michael Dinner, Powers, TV, TV Deals, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

After lengthy development, FX has handed a pilot order to Powers, a drama based on the graphic novel by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming. The project, written by Charles H. Eglee and to be directed by Michael Dinner, is … Read More »

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Jason Smilovic Working on TV Series & Film With Producer Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday September 22, 2010 @ 12:26pm PDTTags: Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Jason Smilovic, Jason Smilovic Replay, Michael Dinner, Movies, Replay, TV
Nellie Andreeva

Writer Jason Smilovic has set up a drama project at Fox. The project, titled The Detail, landed a script commitment with penalty after interest from multiple networks. It is executive produced by Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, with Michael Dinner on board to direct. Produced by Sony TV, it is described as Ocean’s Eleven meets Revenge of the Nerds. It centers on a private detective, who, after being released from jail for a crime he didn’t commit, assembles a group of rejects, each with a unique talent, to form a detective agency and bring down his old business partner who framed him. Read More »

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