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Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis Set For ‘One Night On The Hudson’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday March 14, 2013 @ 11:31am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, One Night On The Hudson, Seth Gordon, Universal Pictures
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Universal Pictures has set Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis to star in One Night On The Hudson, a TJ Fixman-scripted comedy that will be directed by Seth Gordon. Mary Parent and Cale Boyter are producing at Disruption. This shapes up as a re-team between Day, Sudeikis and Gordon from Horrible Bosses, the New Line comedy that is in the process of being sequelized. The logline: rookie cop and the criminal he caught go on the lam from crooked cops.

Sudeikis continues as a castmember on Saturday Night Live and next stars in New Line’s We’re The Millers, while Day continues to star in It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia. He also is part of the ensemble of Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim, which Parent produced for Legendary Pictures. Gordon just directed the hit comedy Identity Thief for Universal. Gordon is producing as well. Fixman is repped by WME and Fourth Floor Productions’ Jeff Silver.

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Adam F. Goldberg ’80s Comedy Gets Pilot Order At ABC With Seth Gordon Directing

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday December 14, 2012 @ 5:46pm PSTTags: Adam F. Goldberg, Big Deals TV, Seth Gordon
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: ABC traditionally hands out a couple of early pilot orders before the holidays. The first one this year has gone to How the F Am I Normal, Adam Goldberg’s single-camera comedy produced by Sony Pictures TV and Happy Madison, whose pilot will be directed by Seth Gordon. The project, inspired by Goldberg’s experience growing up in the ’80s with a highly screwed up but loving family, already had a production commitment at the network where it moved in September after being originally set up at Fox last season. It is a family comedy set in the ’80s that centers on an in-your-face mother and hot-tempered father who love their three eccentric kids so much, they can’t bear to see them grow up.

Goldberg and Gordan are executive producing with Happy Madison’s Doug Robinson; Bill Wee is co-executive producing. How The F— marks a reunion for the auspices behind the Fox comedy Breaking In, which was co-created by Goldberg and Gordon (he directed that pilot too), and produced by Sony TV and Happy Madison. The early pilot order assures the directing services of Gordon, who is producing a slew of projects this season. Read More »

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Seth Gordon Sets Up Dramas At Fox & NBC

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday November 6, 2012 @ 11:04am PSTTags: Fox, NBC, Seth Gordon
Nellie Andreeva

Horrible Bosses director Seth Gordon has set up two more hourlong projects, Run Black at Fox and Bar Scene at NBC. Both are produced by Sony Pictures TV, where Gordon and his Exhibit A are under an overall deal.

Run Black is being written by former Criminal Minds showrunner Simon Mirren, who also has a deal at Sony TV. It centers on a brilliant and dangerous prisoner who is given a chance to reduce his sentence when the FBI recruits him to partner up with a book-smart but painfully naive agent to infiltrate and dismantle a criminal empire on the outside. Mirren and Gordon executive produce, with Gordon possibly directing.

NBC’s Bar Scene, from writers/exec producers Chris Alberghini and Mike Chessler (90210), is based on the life of Jackie Davis, who is a series co-creator. It is about a team of misfit lawyers who start their own practice. Davis’ sister, Stephanie Davis, executive produces with Gordon and Jamie Tarses through her Sony TV-based Fanfare. Alberghnini and Chessler are repped by Paradigm. Read More »

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ABC Buys Chris Sheridan/Seth Gordon Comedy, Jon Feldman Drama From Sony TV

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday October 2, 2012 @ 3:31pm PDTTags: Seth Gordon
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures TV has set up two more projects at ABC — a comedy from Chris Sheridan, Seth Gordon and Amblin Television, and drama from screenwriter/playwright Jonathan Mark Feldman, Patrick Massett & John Zinman.

Former Family Guy executive producer/co-showrunner Sheridan has teamed with Breaking In co-creator Gordon for an untitled single-camera comedy written by Sheridan based on his life. It centers on 35-year-old Rob Campbell who, a year after his divorce decides to re-enter the dating world for the first time in ten years. On his search for happiness, Rob is forced to juggle dating, horrible advice from his friends, a Napoleonic boss and being a great father to his 6-year-old daughter. Sheridan is executive producing with Horrible Bosses director Gordon, who is attached to direct pending availability, and Amblin/DreamWorks TV’s Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank. This is Sheridan’s second year developing for Sony TV. Last year, he wrote an U.S. version of the French-Canadian format Les Invincibles, which sold to Fox. Sony TV-based Gordon, repped by WME, also is attached to fellow Breaking In co-creator Adam F. Goldberg’s new 1980s comedy, which is set up at ABC with a production commitment. This is the latest sale for recently re-christened Amblin TV, which also has dramas America’s Son at Fox and Embrace at the CW and comedy Middle Age Rage at ABC. Read More »

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Disney Buys Jason Micallef Spec ‘Ground Control To Major Tom’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday April 20, 2012 @ 8:06am PDTTags: Disney, Seth Gordon
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Disney has paid mid-six figures for Ground Control To Major Tom, a romantic comedy by Butter scribe Jason Micallef that has Seth Gordon attached to direct. Butter producer Michael De Luca will produce this with Underground’s Josh McGuire and … Read More »

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Seth Gordon To Direct Melissa McCarthy And Jason Bateman In ‘Identity Theft’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday January 17, 2012 @ 10:27am PSTTags: Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy, Seth Gordon
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Horrible Bosses helmer Seth Gordon is re-teaming with Jason Bateman On Identity Theft, the Universal comedy that will star Bateman and Melissa McCarthy. The script was originated by Jerry Eeten, and then rewritten by Steve Conrad and then Craig … Read More »

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‘Horrible Bosses’ Director Seth Gordon Signs Overall Deal With Sony Pictures TV

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday September 28, 2011 @ 4:00pm PDTTags: overall deal, Seth Gordon, Sony Pictures TV
Nellie Andreeva

Horrible Bosses director Seth Gordon has signed a two-year overall deal with Sony Pictures Television. Gordon already has an existing relationship with the TV studio — he is the co-creator/executive producer of the Sony/Happy Madison-produced Fox comedy series Breaking In, which was recently renewed for a second season. Gordon directed 3 of the 7 episodes from the series’ first season, including the pilot and the season finale. Gordon, who co-created Breaking In with writer Adam F. Goldberg, will continue to serve as an executive producer on the Christian Slater-starring comedy in season 2 while also developing new projects for Sony TV. Additionally, Gordon is reuniting with Goldberg and Happy Madison. He has come on board to direct the untitled 1980s family comedy Goldberg has in development at Fox with Happy Madison and Sony TV producing. Read More »

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MGM Hires Scribe For ‘War Games’ Reboot

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday August 19, 2011 @ 6:40pm PDTTags: MGM, Seth Gordon, War Games
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: MGM has set Noah Oppenheim to write the script for War Games, the reboot of the 1983 thriller that has Horrible Bosses helmer Seth Gordon attached to direct. Oppenheim, a former producer of TV news shows that include Hardball and Today Show, put himself on the map by scripting Jackie, a film about Jackie O that was set up with Black Swan helmer Darren Aronofsky attached to direct. At the time, it was envisioned he’d direct Rachel Weisz in the starring role, but that was before they split. The project is being produced by Aronofsky’s Protozoa banner. Oppenheim also scripted Maze Runner for Fox and Houdini for Summit Entertainment. Read More »

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‘King Of Kong’ Director Seth Gordon Ready To Play ‘War Games’ In MGM Reboot

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday June 23, 2011 @ 5:27pm PDTTags: Ally Sheedy, Colin Farrell, Gary Barber, Horrible Bosses, Jamie Foxx, Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Jose Padilha, Kevin Spacey, Matthew Broderick, MGM, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Roger Birnbaum, Seth Gordon, War Games
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: MGM will reboot the 1983 thriller War Games, and the studio has set Seth Gordon to develop the film to direct. Gordon, who made his breakthrough with the gaming documentary The King of Kong, most recently directed the New … Read More »

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Logan Lerman Is ‘Only Living Boy In New York’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday April 18, 2011 @ 8:59am PDTTags: Logan Lerman, Ron Yerxa, Seth Gordon
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Logan Lerman is set to star in The Only Living Boy In New York, an indie that now has Horrible Bosses helmer Seth Gordon attached to direct. A fall production start is eyed. The Allen Loeb-scripted film is a … Read More »

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SXSW: Gridiron Documentary ‘Undefeated’ Scores Big Weinstein Company Deal

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday March 14, 2011 @ 1:27pm PDTTags: Nigel Sinclair, Seth Gordon, The Weinstein Company, WME
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: After an all-night auction, The Weinstein Company   closed a seven-figure deal for distribution and remake rights to Undefeated, a high school gridiron documentary that made its  premiere Sunday night at South by Southwest at 9:45 PM. Buyers began huddling … Read More »

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‘Breaking In’ Co-Creator Adam Goldberg Signs Overall Deal With Sony Pictures TV

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday March 1, 2011 @ 1:42pm PSTTags: Adam F. Goldberg, Breaking In, Breaking In Pilot, Seth Gordon, Sony Pictures TV, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: A year ago, film and TV  writer Adam F. Goldberg landed his first broadcast pilot order with the Fox comedy Breaking In. It didn’t make the cut in May but, in a rare case of a pilot coming … Read More »

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New Lease On Life For Fox’s ‘Breaking In’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday June 28, 2010 @ 4:15pm PDTTags: Adam F. Goldberg, Breaking In, Christian Slater, Fox Breaking In, Seth Gordon, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

Fox has ordered two additional scripts for comedy Breaking In a month after the network passed on the comedy pilot starring Christian Slater. The pilot, set at a digital-security firm, was written by Adam F. Goldberg and directed by Seth Gordon. It had buzz, tested well and was in the running … Read More »

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