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DreamWorks Lands ‘Las Madres’ Pitch

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday April 24, 2013 @ 8:00am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, DreamWorks, Las Madres, Lona Williams, Scott Stuber
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: DreamWorks just closed a deal for Las Madres, a comic pitch for a script that will be written by Lona Williams. Scott Stuber will produce. The logline: Three friends, who have recently found themselves unemployed, decide their only chance at economic opportunity in today’s market is to go after a criminal with a reward for his capture. Williams, who started as an assistant on The Simpsons and Roseanne and who has worked as writer and producer on such films as Drop Dead Gorgeous and Shark Tale, is currently writing Boy Scouts Vs. Zombies. She’s repped by CAA and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.

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Vince Vaughn, Scott Stuber Set Family Comedy At Universal

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday April 10, 2013 @ 11:40am PDTTags: Scott Stuber, Universal Pictures, Vince Vaughn
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has acquired an untitled family comedy pitch from scribes Brian Gatewood and Alex Tanaka that will be developed as a star vehicle for Vince Vaughn. The film will be produced by Scott Stuber and … Read More »

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Universal, Scott Stuber Option Derek Haas Novel ‘The Right Hand’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday October 17, 2012 @ 4:13pm PDTTags: Michael Brandt, Scott Stuber, Universal Pictures
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures and producer Scott Stuber have optioned the Derek Haas spy thriller novel The Right Hand. Haas and his right hand man, screenwriting partner Michael Brandt, are set to adapt the book as a feature, … Read More »

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NBC Buys Dramas From ’9 To 5′ Writer Patricia Resnick, Newcomer Moira McMahon

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday October 17, 2012 @ 9:00am PDTTags: NBC, Peter Traugott, Scott Stuber
Nellie Andreeva

NBC has added two more projects to its drama development roster hailing from Universal TV and two of its pods: a soapy drama from writer Patricia Resnick (9 … Read More »

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Gordon Ramsay & Scott Stuber To Produce NBC Restaurant Drama From ‘Memphis Beat’ Creators, Michael Mayer To Direct

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday October 16, 2012 @ 2:18pm PDTTags: Gordon Ramsay, NBC, Scott Stuber
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Producer Scott Stuber (Ted) is teaming with TV chef Gordon Ramsay for The Inferno, an NBC drama project set in a restaurant. It was created … Read More »

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Bluegrass Films Options Graphic Novel ‘The Order’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday August 28, 2012 @ 3:03pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Scott Stuber
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Scott Stuber’s Bluegrass Films has optioned the graphic novel The Order from Arcana/Benderspink, and has set writer Brian Nathanson (The Many Deaths Of Barnaby James) to write the script.

The Order is a group of young … Read More »

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Universal, Scott Stuber Working On ‘Endless Love’ Remake

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday August 2, 2012 @ 2:59pm PDTTags: Scott Stuber
Mike Fleming

Universal Pictures and producer Scott Stuber are gearing up for a remake of Endless Love, the 1981 Franco Zefirelli-directed film about obsessive teenage love that starred Brooke Shields and Martin Hewitt, and which launched the movie career of … Read More »

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TV Land Orders Comedy Pilots Produced By Ben Silverman And Scott Stuber

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday May 24, 2012 @ 9:00am PDTTags: Ben Silverman, Big Deals TV, Scott Stuber, TV Land
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: TV Land has given cast-contingent orders to two new comedy pilots, the single-camera I’m Not Dead Yet from Ben Silverman’s Electus and the multi-camera Brothers-In-Law, executive produced by Scott Stuber. I’m Not Dead, based on the DBS-produced Israeli format Zanzuri, marks TV Land’s first single-camera pilot. Written by Jon Sherman (Frasier), it is about a man who finds out that he has a rare heart condition that could cause him to die at any moment and  decides to finally start speaking his mind and live life to the fullest. Silverman is executive producing, with Electus’ Jimmy Fox co-executive producing.

Written and executive produced by comedy veterans Bill Martin and Mike Schiff (3rd Rock From The Sun), who will serve as showrunners, Brothers-In-Law revolves around the family dynamic between a husband and the eccentric fiancé of his wife’s twin sister, who have nothing in common but the sisters constantly force them to bond. Stuber is executive producing, with his development executive Quan Phung producing. “With these pilot orders, TV Land continues down a path to build its own library of original sitcoms that will be paired up with some of the best sitcoms ever made,” said TV Land president Larry W. Jones. “This year, we are expanding beyond the multi-camera format — which has been so successful for us — to include one single-camera project.” Read More »

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Universal Pictures Acquires Novel ‘Lunatics’ As Star Vehicle For Steve Carell

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday November 10, 2011 @ 6:26pm PSTTags: Charlie Hartsock, Jim Carrey, Scott Stuber, Steve Carell, Vance DeGeneres
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has acquired the Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel novel Lunatics, with Steve Carell attached to star. The film will be produced by Scott Stuber and Pam Abdy of Stuber Pictures and Carell and his Carousel partners Vance … Read More »

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Universal Drops ‘Clue’; Gore Verbinski Moves Forward With Hasbro Cash And New Writers

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 3, 2011 @ 10:04am PDTTags: Alex Proyas, Andrew Form, Bennett Schneir, Brad Fuller, Brian Goldner, Burk Sharpless, Clue, Gore Verbinski, Ian Bryce, James Lassiter, John Hlavin, John Krauss, Liam Neeson, Matt Sazama, McG, Michael Bay, Peter Berg, Ridley Scott, Sam Worthington, Scott Stuber, Taylor Kitsch, Taylor Lautner, Universal Pictures, Will Smith
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has quietly dropped out of Clue, one of the seven Hasbro games properties the studio contracted to make into movies in a ground-breaking six-year exclusive deal signed in 2008. Clue becomes the third project out of seven to be dropped by Universal (Monopoly and Magic, The Gathering were also kicked to the curb), but none of those projects are dead. In the case of the murder mystery board game Clue, Hasbro is funding the development and producing the film with Gore Verbinski’s Blind Wink. Verbinski, director of the first three Pirates of the Caribbean films, Rango and the upcoming Lone Ranger, still plans to direct Clue, and he and Blind Wink’s John Krauss are producing with Hasbro’s Brian Goldner and Bennett Schneir.

They’ve just hired Flash Gordon scribes Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama to write the Clue script. The writers will draft a take that Verbinski and his fellow producers came up with that retains the murder mystery spirit of the board game, but broadens the setting to a global stage. Beyond scripting Flash Gordon for Sony Pictures, Sharpless and Sazama are redrafting Dracula Year Zero. That project’s still hanging on at Universal, after being halted just short of the start line because of a high budget, when Alex Proyas was directing and Sam Worthington was going to star. ICM reps the writers.

Is all this a clue that Universal no longer wants to roll the dice on board game movies? Insiders say no. Rather, they tell me that Universal and Hasbro gradually narrowed their focus to the four films that most made sense for the studio: Battleship, the Peter Berg-directed summer 2012 action movie that stars Taylor Kitsch and Liam Neeson, with Universal just releasing its first trailer (below); Stretch Armstrong, which has Rob Letterman directing and Twilight Saga’s Taylor Lautner attached to play the rubbery title character; Candy Land, which is being written by Kung Fu Panda 2 co-writers Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, who’ve described the film as Lord of the Rings, with edibles; and Ouija, which has McG attached to direct and Platinum Dunes partners Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form producing with Ian Bryce and Hasbro’s Goldner and Schneir. Read More »

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Rawson Thurber To Rewrite ‘The Umbrella Academy’ For Universal

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday July 25, 2011 @ 4:53pm PDTTags: Mark Bomback, Rawson Thurber, Scott Stuber
Mike Fleming

Dodgeball director Rawson Thurber is rewriting The Umbrella Academy for Universal Pictures, based on the 2008 Eisner Award-winning Dark Horse comic written by My Chemical Romance singer Gerard Way. Mark Bomback wrote the first draft.

The comic revolves around an adopted … Read More »

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Latest ‘Franken’ Film Will Be Adaptation

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday May 23, 2011 @ 2:47pm PDTTags: Craig Fernandez, Guillermo Del Toro, Karen Rosenfelt, Kenneth Oppel, Mary Shelley, Matt Tolmach, Nathan Kahane, Rob Tapert, Ryan Murphy, Sam Raimi, Scott Stuber, Slash, Steve Niles
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: While the outbreak of zombie and vampire films has been well chronicled, Hollywood has also become flush with Frankenstein films. The latest is an adaptation of the Peter Ackroyd novel The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein, which has just gotten Pulitzer-winning Proof playwright David Auburn signed to write the script.  The project is set with RT Features, and Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert’s Ghost House Pictures. The story covers the youthful days of Frankenstein, who begins experimenting with corpses, influenced by the outspoken English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, whose Mary wrote the book. She’s a character in the film as well. RT Features’ Rodrigo Teixeira will produce with Tapert and Ilene Staple, while Fernando Loureiro, Jeff Vespa and Ghost House’s Nathan Kahane and Lawrence Grey will be exec producers.

That’s just one of several Frankenflicks. Universal is developing a new version of the 1931 studio classic movie with Guillermo del Toro and Scott Stuber; Summit Entertainment is developing This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein, an adaptation of the Kenneth Oppel novel that is being produced by Twilight Saga’s Karen Rosenfelt; and Columbia Pictures and producer Matt Tomach recently acquired Frankenstein, a contemporary re-telling of the famous tale based on a pitch by Craig Fernandez. If that’s not enough, former Guns n Roses guitar hero Slash, whose Slasher Films is teamed with Scout Productions on a Jay Russell-attached Wake the Dead, a Frankenstein tale based on the graphic novel by Steve Niles (30 Days of Night). And let’s not forget Fox 2000’s remake of the 1975 camp classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show, last heard from around Halloween, when the studio courted Glee’s Ryan Murphy, right after he wrapped an episode devoted to the original movie. Read More »

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Vera Farmiga Joins Thriller ‘Safe House’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday April 25, 2011 @ 9:53am PDTTags: Brendan Gleeson, Daniel Espinosa, Denzel Washington, Robert Patrick, Ryan Reynolds, Sam Shepard, Scott Stuber, Vera Farmiga
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has set Vera Farmiga to star with Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds in Safe House, the Daniel Espinosa-directed drama. Production is already under way, with Reynolds playing a young agent assigned to escort a dangerous criminal to … Read More »

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Paramount Buys ‘Old Man’s War’ For Wolfgang Petersen And Scott Stuber

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday February 23, 2011 @ 11:04am PSTTags: Paramount Pictures, Scott Stuber
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has acquired screen rights to the John Scalzi novel series Old Man’s War, with Wolfgang Petersen attached to direct and David Self adapting the tale into a large-scale science fiction project. Scott Stuber will produce through his … Read More »

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NBC Developing NASCAR Family Drama

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday October 26, 2010 @ 8:25am PDTTags: NBC, NBC Development, Scott Stuber, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: It’s like Parenthood for guys. NBC is developing The Crew, a testosterone-heavy underdog family drama set in the world of NASCAR from Heroes writer-producer Joe Pokaski and NBC Universal-based producer Scott Stuber. The ensemble revolves around the family of distinctly different “brothers” on a NASCAR racing team who have their own lives and dreams, opportunities and problems — but as a team share a singular goal to be the best. Read More »

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‘Sex And The City’s Michael Patrick King In Bed With Meryl Streep, Sandra Bullock And Oprah Winfrey

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday October 22, 2010 @ 12:01pm PDTTags: Meryl Streep, Michael Patrick King, Movie Deals, Movies, Oprah Winfrey, Sandra Bullock, Scott Stuber, Universal Pictures
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: In one of the more exceptional cast-attached movie packages to come along in awhile, Universal Pictures has acquired an … Read More »

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Terry George Checks Into ‘Safe House’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday October 18, 2010 @ 9:13am PDTTags: Daniel Espinosa, David Guggenheim, Denzel Washington, Movies, Ryan Reynolds, Safe House, Scott Stuber, Terry George
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Terry George has signed on for rewrite duty on Safe House, the Daniel Espinosa-directed Universal drama that goes into production early next year. Ryan Reynolds plays a young CIA agent who must transport a dangerous criminal — Denzel Washington … Read More »

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Ryan Reynolds Fits ‘Safe House’ Into Sked

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 18, 2010 @ 11:58am PDTTags: Daniel Espinosa, Ryan Reynolds, Safe House, Scott Stuber
Mike Fleming

Days after Deadline revealed Ryan Reynolds was front runner for the Safe House role chased by every hot young actor in town, the actor is now negotiating to play the young CIA agent who must transport a dangerous criminal (Washington) … Read More »

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Denzel Washington Back In Bad Guy Mode

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday July 7, 2010 @ 4:22pm PDTTags: Actors, Casting, CIA Drama, Daniel Espinosa, David Guggenheim, Denzel Washington, Safe House, Scott Stuber, Universal Pictures, Unstoppable
Mike Fleming

oscars-actor-training-day-05-ssDenzel Washington is looking to join producer Scott Stuber on Safe House, a David Guggenheim-scripted Universal Pictures drama that will be directed by Daniel Espinosa (Snabba Cash) about a young CIA agent who must transport a dangerous criminal to safety after … Read More »

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