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‘Girls’ Star Allison Williams Sets First Feature Starring Role

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday April 30, 2013 @ 12:45pm PDTTags: Allison Williams, Fox, Rosaline, Shawn Levy
Mike Fleming

Allison WilliamsEXCLUSIVE: Allison Williams, HBO Girls co-star and daughter of NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams, is in talks to play the title role in Rosaline, the Shawn Levy-produced feature based on Shakespeare that is mobilizing at 20th Century Fox. I’ve heard Williams is also on the short list for the Fantastic Four reboot, which is in the very early talking stage. Maybe not too long until Brian Williams is known as Allison’s dad. She’s repped by Paradigm. Rosaline is based on the Rebecca Serle book When You Were Mine.

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‘Justified’s Timothy Olyphant, ‘House Of Lies’ Ben Schwartz Join ‘This Is Where I Leave You’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday April 3, 2013 @ 1:41pm PDTTags: Ben Schwartz, Shawn Levy, This Is Where I Leave You, Timothy Olyphant, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Just after completing the latest season as U.S. Marshall Raylan Givens in the FX series Justified, Timothy Olyphant has joined the Shawn Levy-directed Warner Bros pic This Is Where I Leave You. Ben Schwartz, … Read More »

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Jane Fonda In Talks To Join Shawn Levy’s ‘This Is Where I Leave You’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday March 7, 2013 @ 12:02pm PSTTags: Jane Fonda, Shawn Levy, This Is Where I Leave You, Warner Bros

Jane FondaEXCLUSIVE: Jane Fonda is in negotiations to join Tina Fey and Jason Bateman in This Is Where I Leave You. The two-time Oscar winner will play the newly widowed Hillary Foxman in the adaptation of Jonathan Tropper’s comic … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘The Internship’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday February 13, 2013 @ 4:22pm PSTTags: Owen Wilson, Shawn Levy, The Internship, Vince Vaughn

Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson play a couple of 40-ish sales guys who find themselves suddenly obsolete and out of jobs. Desperate to remain relevant and employable, they try to land internships at Google. With (naturally) Google+ as a promotional partner 20th Century Fox rolls out the movie … Read More »

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Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps Makes 3-Year Extension At Fox; Prepping A Slew Of Films

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday December 12, 2012 @ 3:35pm PSTTags: 20th Century Fox, Big Deals Film, Shawn Levy
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Shawn Levy‘s 21 Laps will continue to be a cornerstone presence at 20th Century Fox. Levy’s label has closed a new 3-year overall first look deal with the studio. Levy and president Dan Levine have promoted Billy Rosenberg to Senior Vice President, Dan Cohen to Vice President, Will Rack to Director of Development, and Katie Baron to Creative Executive.

“Shawn’s boundless energy, ambition and effortless creativity make him the perfect partner,” said 20th Century Fox production president Emma Watts. We are lucky he continues to call Fox his home.”

Levy has been busy. He directed the Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson comedy The Internship, which Fox releases June 7, 2013; 21 Laps produced The Spectacular Now, directed by James Ponsoldt and starring Miles Teller, Shailene Woodley, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kyle Chandler and Brie Larson. That film premieres in competition at Sundance in January. Written by Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber (500 Days Of Summer) and produced by 21 Laps alongside Tom McNulty and Andrew Lauren. Read More »

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Fox Moves Up ‘The Internship’ To June 7, 2013

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday October 4, 2012 @ 6:47pm PDTTags: Shawn Levy, The Internship
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Fox and New Regency are moving the Shawn Levy-directed comedy The Internship up three weeks to a June 7, 2013 berth. Summer 2013 is going to be brutal, and the studio saw … Read More »

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Shawn Levy To Direct ‘The 39 Clues’ For DreamWorks

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday May 10, 2012 @ 4:37pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, DreamWorks, Shawn Levy, Steven Spielberg
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Shawn Levy is making a deal to direct The 39 Clues, the 11-volume novel series that Scholastic Media began publishing in 2008. DreamWorks bought the project before the first book was published for Steven Spielberg to direct, and … Read More »

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Anne Fletcher To Helm Seth Meyers-Scripted ‘Alone For The Holidays’ For Fox 2000

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday April 17, 2012 @ 11:32am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Fox 2000, Seth Meyers, Shawn Levy
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Anne Fletcher has been set to direct Alone For The Holidays, an original Christmas comedy script for Fox 2000 that was written by Saturday Night Live head writer and Weekend Update anchor Seth Meyers. Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps Entertainment … Read More »

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ABC Picks Up Comedy Pilot Starring Mandy Moore & Directed By Shawn Levy

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday February 7, 2012 @ 6:43pm PSTTags: ABC, Mandy Moore, Shawn Levy
Nellie Andreeva

ABC has given a late pilot order to a single-camera pilot starring actress/singer Mandy Moore, which will be directed by Shawn Levy. The project, written by Bob Fisher and Stacy Traub, centers on newlyweds Annie (Moore) and Ben who get … Read More »

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Superhero Scribes Ashley Miller & Zack Stentz Set Deal For First Novel

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday November 15, 2011 @ 7:43am PSTTags: Ashley Miller, Laurie MacDonald, Martin Campbell, Marty Adelstein, Michael London, Shawn Levy, Walter Parkes, Zack Stentz
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Ashley Miller & Zack Stentz, whose recent credits include Thor and X-Men: First Class, have made a deal with the Penguin imprint Razorbill to publish their first novel. Colin Fischer is about a 14-year-old boy with severe Asperger’s syndrome … Read More »

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Paramount, Bad Robot Set Scribes For ‘Boilerplate’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday November 3, 2011 @ 9:54am PDTTags: Dwayne Johnson, JJ Abrams, Mark Twain, Patrick McKay, Shawn Levy, Taylor Lautner
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures and JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot have hired JD Payne and Patrick McKay to write the script for Boilerplate, based on the Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett graphic novel Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel. Bad Robot will produce with … Read More »

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James Cameron Updates Progress Of Planned ‘Fantastic Voyage’ Remake

By PETE HAMMOND | Friday October 28, 2011 @ 5:40pm PDTTags: 20th Century Fox, Fantastic Voyage, James Cameron, Shawn Levy, Titanic
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EXCLUSIVE: Although James Cameron was at Paramount today to show off his 3D conversion of Titanic, I had to ask him and his producer partner Jon Landau about the progress of their planned remake of the campy but fun 1966 sci-fi hit Fantastic Voyage. Despite some terrible acting (from the likes of Raquel Welch and Stephen Boyd) and wooden dialogue, it did manage to win five nominations and a couple of Oscars for Art Direction and Special Visual Effects.

The original story, about a group of scientists who are reduced to microscopic size inside a submarine and injected into the body of an ill colleague, is taking on a new dimension in the version now in active development at 20th Century Fox. As first reported by Deadline, Cameron, busy with two sequels to Avatar among other projects, does not plan to direct — Shawn Levy (Real Steel) is attached as the helmer. “I gave him my idea about how this should be turned into a love story and he’s really run with it,” says Cameron, who noted that the script (originally written by Shane Salerno) with its complex premise has to be just right before it can get to the production level. Cameron says it’s about two thirds of the way there in the development process. Much like Titanic the new Voyage has a real emotional core to it, basically dealing with a doctor going through troubled times in his marriage who finds himself injected into his gravely ill wife in order to save her life. Apparently, once he gets to the brain, things really heat up. Compared to the original, the possibilities of this re-imagination are quite intriguing. Of course, with the massive advances in filmmaking technology in the 45 years since Richard Fleischer’s version, Fantastic Voyage is truly ripe for a reboot. Read More »

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Comedy Starring Mandy Moore And Directed By Shawn Levy Lands At ABC With Put Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday October 18, 2011 @ 6:30pm PDTTags: ABC, Mandy Moore, Shawn Levy
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation with 3 networks bidding, ABC has landed a single-camera comedy starring actress/singer Mandy Moore with a put pilot commitment. The project will be written by Wedding Crashers co-writer Bob Fisher, directed by Shawn Levy and … Read More »

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Fox Buys Pinocchio Prequel For Shawn Levy

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday October 14, 2011 @ 3:42pm PDTTags: Fairy Tales, Shawn Levy
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: The spec script went out last night and the mid against high 6-figure deal just closed. Century Fox acquired The Three Misfortunes of Geppetto for Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps. He’s attached to direct the screenplay by Michael Vukadinovich. 21 … Read More »

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Fox To Adapt Fantasy Novel ‘The Magicians’ To Series With ‘X-Men: First Class’ Scribes

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday October 5, 2011 @ 7:08pm PDTTags: 20th Century Fox TV, Ashley Miller, Fox, Michael London, Shawn Levy, Zack Stentz
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Fox has preemptively bought Magicians, a drama series adaptation of Lev Grossman’s popular fantasy novel, with a script commitment plus penalty. It will be written by X-Men: First Class and Thor co-writers Ashley Miller & Zack Stentz and produced by Michael London (Milk), Shawn Levy and Michael Adelstein. Based on Grossman’s book, which is described as Harry Potter for grown-ups, the one-hour drama follows a group of 20-somethings in New York who study magic and have access to a magical world. London had optioned the novel, which was published in 2009, while 21 Laps/Adelstein had a deal with Miller and Stentz, who have extensive TV background having worked on such series as Fringe and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. All joined forces on the series project, which will be executive produced by Miller, Stentz, London, Levy, Adelstein and Becky Clements. Following the success of The Magicians, Grossman wrote a sequel, The Magician King, which was published in August.

Contemporary dramas with fairytale elements are hot for a second consecutive broadcast development season. The previous one yielded 2 new series in the genre, ABC’s Once Upon a Time and NBC’s Grimm. This time around, Magicians joins a project from Michael Green, which recently landed a put pilot commitment at ABC. It centers on a female cop who discovers a magical world that exists within New York City. Read More »

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Fox Buys Teen Spy Drama With Penalty

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday September 21, 2011 @ 2:35pm PDTTags: 20th Century Fox TV, Fox, Marty Adelstein, Shawn Levy
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Fox has bought a CIA drama from Karyn Usher (The Playboy Club) in a script deal that has a significant penalty attached to it. The project, a procedural thriller centered on the orphaned 17-year-old daughter of a CIA operative who is recruited to become an operative herself, is being produced by 20th Century Fox TV and Mary Adelstein and Shawn Levy’s studio-based 21 Laps/Adelstein Prods. Usher, Adelstein, Levy and Becky Clements are executive producing. Adelstein approached Usher, who also is under an overall deal at 20th TV, with the idea for the project to find out that she had been thinking about a similar idea. This is the duo’s third project together. Adelstein first met Usher on the Fox/20th TV drama Prison Break, which Adelstein executive produced and on which WME-repped Usher started off as a co-producer and eventually rose to co-executive producer. The two later developed a U.S. Read More »

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ABC Buys Sander/Moses Circus Drama, Fox Goes For Medical Dramedy

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday September 15, 2011 @ 10:50am PDTTags: 20th Century Fox TV, 21 Laps/Adelstein Productions, ABC, Fox, Jessica Queller, Kim Moses, Marty Adelstein, Shawn Levy
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: ABC is going to the circus with Bazirkus, a soap from writer Mitch Kapner (Sam Raimi’s Oz: The Great and Powerful) and Sander/Moses (The Ghost Whisperer). Meanwhile, Fox continues to search for a new medical franchise with a script deal for a dramedy from Gossip Girl writer-producer Jessica Queller and Shawn Levy and Marty Adelstein’s 21 Laps/Adelstein Prods.

Bazirkus is based loosely on 32-year-old Nicole Feld of Ringling Bros & Barnum and Bailey Circus, who grew up in the circus her grandfather bought in 1967 and has become the first female producer in Ringling Bros’ history. The ABC project, which will be set at a fictional circus, is a  family/workplace soap about unfulfilled dreams and great expectations in the circus world where everyone is pushing the limits, personally and professionally, to reinvent themselves as they reinvent their world. “This is drama that brings the circus into the 21st century, it will take us behind the curtain as well as center stage,” said Ian Sander and Kim Moses, who are executive producing with Kapner. ABC Studios, where UTA-repped Sander/Moses is under a deal, will produce. Kapner, who also penned The Whole Nine Yards, is with Gersh.

Jessica Queller’s Fox medical dramedy centers on a young neurologist who is a single mother of a sperm-donor baby. The show will chronicle (with humor) her struggle to balance work, motherhood, family and romance as she moves to Boston to start a new job that she hopes will help her find a cure for her ailing brother. 21 Laps/Adelstein is producing with 20th TV, where the company is based. Queller, Levy, Adelstein and Becky Clements are executive producing. Read More »

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‘Romancing The Stone’ TV Adaptation Lands At NBC With Penalty, Shawn Levy May Direct

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday August 31, 2011 @ 1:00pm PDTTags: 20th Century Fox TV, NBC, Shawn Levy
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: The classic 1984 action-adventure romantic comedy Romancing the Stone is headed to the small screen. NBC has bought a TV series adaptation of the Robert Zemeckis movie, which was produced by 20th Century Fox and starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. The TV project, from 20th Century Fox TV and Shawn Levy and Marty Adelstein’s studio-based 21 Laps/Adelstein Prods, has received a script commitment with penalty from NBC. The Forgotten creator Mark Friedman will write the series adaptation with Levy attached to direct subject to feature availability. The 1984 film starred Turner as a romance writer who sets off to Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure alongside a swashbuckling American bird exporter, played by Douglas. Read More »

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Shawn Levy Eyeing Fox’s Frankenstein

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 24, 2011 @ 2:23pm PDTTags: 20th Century Fox, Akiva Schaffer, Ben Stiller, Frankenstein, Jonah Hill, Shawn Levy, Vince Vaughn
Mike Fleming

As the 20th Century Fox 3D Fantastic Voyage continues to take forever to get underway (script is there, but it’s pricey and they’ve had trouble casting it), I’m hearing persuasively that director Shawn Levy will likely take another Fox film, … Read More »

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