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Paramount Acquires Spec ‘Agatha,’ Will Gluck To Helm

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday March 5, 2013 @ 1:48pm PSTTags: Agatha, Benderspink, Big Deals Film, Mary Parent, Paramount Pictures, Will Gluck
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is buying Agatha, spec screenplay written by Allison Schroeder which has Will Gluck attached to direct. Disruption Entertainment’s Mary Parent and Cale Boyter are producing with Benderspink’s Chris Bender, Jake Weiner, and JC Spink.

Spec is an action adventure which surmises what really happened to Agatha Christie during the 11 days she went missing. Plot specifics are being kept under wraps but tonally it is described as a female Sherlock Holmes meets Romancing The Stone. Schroeder previously wrote a Mean Girls sequel and was a writer for CW’s Beverly Hills 90210. Will Gluck is currently rewriting Annie to direct for Sony. Both Gluck and Schroeder are repped by UTA and Schroeder is also repped by Benderspink and attorney Lev Ginsburg.

Benderspink just produced The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Hangover Part III, We’re The Millers and Ride Along. Par’s David Beaubaire brought in the spec.

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Will Gluck Helming ‘Annie’ Remake For Sony, Will Smith And Jay Z

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday January 30, 2013 @ 11:19am PSTTags: Annie, Big Deals Film, Jay-Z, Sony Pictures, Will Gluck, Will Smith
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Sony Pictures is setting Will Gluck to helm Annie, the re-imagining of the Broadway musical. The helmer who directed Easy A and Friends With Benefits for Sony-based Screen Gems takes on a high-profile project that will be produced by James Lassiter, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Will Smith through their Overbrook Entertainment banner, and by Shawn “Jay Z” Carter, Jay Brown, and Tyran “Ty Ty” Smith through Marcy Media. Willow Smith is no longer attached; she was 9 when development began and she has outgrown the role of Annie.

Gluck will revise the film’s screenplay, which was written by Emma Thompson and rewritten by Aline Brosh McKenna based on the musical and its book by Thomas Meehan, music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin. That’s based on the Little Orphan Annie comic strip. The movie is contemporized and will shoot in the fall for a 2014 release. Read More »

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CBS Orders Pilots From Will Gluck, Frank Marshall And Two From Greg Garcia

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday January 18, 2013 @ 6:35pm PSTTags: Big Deals TV, Frank Marshall, Greg Garcia, Will Gluck
Nellie Andreeva

CBS seems determined to get a comedy from My Name Is Earl and Raising Hope creator Greg Garcia on the air next season, handing out pilot orders to both of his scripts, one single- and one multi-camera. They were among four CBS pilots ordered tonight as the network kept its odd pilot season tradition of greenlighting a slew of pilots after hours on a Friday night. The other two pickups went to the Will Gluck-produced comedy The McCarthys, from writer Brian Gallivan; and The Ordained, a drama from a novice TV writer, Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, which is produced by Frank Marshall. These mark the first pilot orders for Garcia and Marshall in the first development cycles under their deals at CBS TV Studios, while The McCarthys hails from Sony TV where Gluck’s Olive Bridge Entertainment is based.

Garcia’s single-camera pilot Super Clyde centers on a meek, unassuming fast food worker who decides to become a super hero. The untitled multi-camera one centers on a recently divorced man whose life is complicated when his parents decide to move in with him. Both projects are written and executive produced by CAA-repped Garcia, who moved from long-time home 20th TV to CBS Studios last May in a very rich four-year overall deal. The double pickup almost assures Emmy winner Garcia’s return to CBS’ primetime seven years after the end of the network’s comedy series Yes, Dear, which he co-created. Garcia’s commitment to Fox’s Raising Hope, now in its third season, concludes at the end of this season. The family comedy has done well enough to earn another renewal but Garcia’s departure would certainly reflect on the show’s chances. Read More »

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Betsy Brandt To Star In Michael J. Fox’s NBC Series Produced By Will Gluck

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday January 17, 2013 @ 9:00am PSTTags: Big Deals TV, Michael J. Fox, NBC, Will Gluck
Nellie Andreeva

As AMC’s dark drama Breaking Bad is wrapping its final season, co-star Betsy Brandt is segueing to a new series, this time on the comedy side. Brandt is set as the female lead opposite Michael J. … Read More »

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ABC Developing Cop Comedy Produced By Will Gluck

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday December 3, 2012 @ 4:00pm PSTTags: ABC, Will Gluck
Nellie Andreeva

ABC has put in development Rookie, a single-camera cop comedy from Will Gluck and Tosh.0 director Scott Zabielski. Written by Community co-executive producer Andy Bobrow and produced by Sony Pictures TV and Gluck’s studio-based Olive Bridge, … Read More »

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Will Gluck/Brian Gallivan Single-Camera Family Comedy Goes To CBS As Put Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday October 1, 2012 @ 11:31am PDTTags: CBS, Will Gluck
Nellie Andreeva

Will GluckEXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, an untitled single-camera family comedy from producer Will Gluck and Happy Endings staff writer Brian Gallivan has landed at CBS with a put pilot commitment. The project is being produced by Happy Endings’ Sony Pictures TV and Gluck’s studio-based Olive Bridge Entertainment. Read More »

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Drama From Becky Hartman Edwards & Will Gluck, Matt Hubbard Comedy Go To NBC

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday September 12, 2012 @ 7:09pm PDTTags: Becky Hartman Edwards, Big Deals TV, NBC, Will Gluck
Nellie Andreeva

Will GluckBecky Hartman EdwardsNBC has bought a drama from Switched At Birth executive producer Becky Hartman Edwards, Sony TV and Will Gluck’s studio-based TV … Read More »

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ABC Nabs June Diane Raphael/Casey Wilson Female Comedy Produced By Will Gluck

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday August 30, 2012 @ 12:19pm PDTTags: Will Gluck
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: The Housewives, a multi-camera comedy from Saturday Night Live alumna Casey Wilson, actress/writer June Diane Raphael, Will Gluck and Sony Pictures TV, has landed at ABC with a put pilot commitment.

Written and executive produced by Wilson and Raphael, The Housewives is about three female friends in 1954. Raphael is in negotiations to play one of the three leads in the project, produced by Sony TV and Gluck’s studio-based TV production company Olive Bridge Entertainment. Richard Schwartz co-executive produces.

The Housewives reunites the auspices behind last year’s single-camera comedy project Walk Of Shame, which also was set up at ABC through Sony TV and Gluck’s company, with Wilson and Raphael writing. Wilson has a pre-existing relationship with ABC and Sony TV — she co-stars on the ABC/Sony comedy Happy Endings. Read More »

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NBC Lands Michael J. Fox’s Family Comedy Produced By Will Gluck With Series Order

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday August 20, 2012 @ 3:12pm PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Michael J. Fox, NBC, Will Gluck
Nellie Andreeva

UPDATED: In a competitive situation, Michael J. Fox’s new family comedy project has landed at the same network that aired the family comedy which made him a household name 30 years ago, Family Ties. NBC nabbed the untitled … Read More »

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Michael J. Fox Eyes Family Comedy Return

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday August 15, 2012 @ 1:45pm PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Michael J. Fox, Will Gluck
Nellie Andreeva

Thirty years after the premiere of Family Ties, Michael J. Fox is returning to the family comedy genre, this time as the dad. Fox is attached to star in a single-camera comedy project from writer Sam Laybourne (Cougar … Read More »

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Steve Pink In Talks To Helm ‘Sexual Perversity In Chicago’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday August 9, 2012 @ 1:31pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Kevin Hart, Michael Ealy, Screen Gems, Steve Pink, Will Gluck, Will Packer
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Steve Pink is in talks to direct Sexual Perversity In Chicago, the Screen Gems remake of the 1986 film About Last Night. I’m hearing that the film, scripted by Bachelorette‘s Leslye Headland, is on a fast … Read More »

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CBS Films Acquires ‘Skyjack: The Hunt For D.B. Cooper’ For Will Gluck To Direct

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday June 13, 2012 @ 10:05am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, CBS Films, Will Gluck
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Easy A helmer Will Gluck is at the center of a deal that CBS Films is making for the bestselling Geoffrey Gray novel Skyjack: The Hunt For D.B. Cooper, which was published by Crown. Gluck is in talks to direct and produce via his Olive Bridge banner, and Keith Bunin will write the script. Bunin scripted episodes of the HBO series In Treatment, and is writing for Universal and Illumination Entertainment a live-action film about the life of Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) as a vehicle for Johnny Depp to star in and produce.

The Skyjack novel is an action-comedy that follows the story of D.B. Cooper, who on November 24, 1971, hijacked a Boeing 727, demanded $200,000 and parachutes, and jumped out over the Pacific Northwest. He was never caught and hailed as a folk hero. The book tracks his story from the perspectives of three different people claiming to be him. Gluck most recently co-wrote, directed and produced Friends With Benefits, the romantic comedy that starred Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis. He is in the middle of a Sony Pictures deal for movies and series, and this is a rare project outside that arrangement. Read More »

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Drew Pearce Sells Action-Comedy ‘Secretaries Day’ To Sony For Will Gluck To Produce And Direct

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday December 14, 2011 @ 3:32pm PSTTags: Sony, Will Gluck
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures has bought a spec pitch from Drew Pearce titled Secretaries Day, attaching Will Gluck to direct and produce the action-comedy through his studio-based Olive Bridge Entertainment shingle. The project represents the first original feature idea for Pearce, … Read More »

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ABC Buys Comedic Drama From Silvio Horta And Will Gluck

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday October 27, 2011 @ 6:09pm PDTTags: ABC, Silvio Horta, Will Gluck
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Ugly Betty developer/ executive producer Silvio Horta is back at ABC with a new dramedy project, this time teamed with Easy A and Friends With Benefits director Will Gluck. … Read More »

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ABC Buys Will Gluck Comedy With Penalty

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday September 22, 2011 @ 3:12pm PDTTags: ABC, Sony Pictures TV, Will Gluck
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: After setting up a couple of TV projects with other writers in the first development season of his recently launched Sony Pictures TV-based production company, Easy A and Friends with Benefits director Will Gluck has sold one that he … Read More »

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ABC Nabs Casey Wilson/June Raphael ‘Walk Of Shame’ Comedy Produced By Will Gluck

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday September 13, 2011 @ 9:30pm PDTTags: ABC, Sony Pictures TV, Will Gluck
Nellie Andreeva

In yet another competitive situation surrounding a comedy pitch this season, ABC has landed a single-camera comedy to be written by Saturday Night Live alumna Casey Wilson and June Diane Raphael and produced by Sony Pictures TV and Will Gluck’s … Read More »

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NBC Nabs Comedy Project From Will Gluck With Production Commitment

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday August 25, 2011 @ 5:21pm PDTTags: Alan Schoolcraft, NBC, Sony Pictures TV, Will Gluck
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: After a fierce bidding war between NBC and ABC followed by a lengthy negotiation, NBC has nabbed a mocumentary-style comedy from Mastermind writers Alan Schoolcraft and Brent Simons, Sony Pictures TV and Will Gluck’s Sony-based production … Read More »

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SUMMER OF COMEDY: Projects From Adam Goldberg & Will Gluck Spark Bidding Wars

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday August 22, 2011 @ 11:07am PDTTags: Adam F. Goldberg, Alan Schoolcraft, Comedy Development, Happy Madison, Sony Pictures TV, TV Comedy, Will Gluck
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Comedies continue to be white-hot this pitch season. The latest to spark major bidding wars are an 1980s half-hour from Breaking In co-creator Adam F. Goldberg and a mocumentary-style comedy from Alan Schoolcraft and Brent Simons, co-writers of DreamWorks Animation’s Megamind. Both projects hail from Sony TV, which has been very aggressive at the onset of this development season, as well as two of the studio’s highest-profile pods: Happy Madison (the Goldberg project) and Will Gluck’s company (the Schoolcraft/Simons project), which in May signed a two-year development and production deal with Sony for film and TV. Both comedies have received interest from all four major broadcast networks and will likely command series/production commitments. For the Gluck-produced comedy, I hear the field has been narrowed to ABC and NBC, while for the Goldberg project it is still wide open.

The Adam Goldberg project is described as an autobiographical show about growing up in the 1980s with a highly screwed up but loving family. It reunites the auspices of Fox’s cult favorite Breaking In, which also was co-produced by Happy Madison and Sony TV. Film and TV writer Goldberg, who has an overall deal at Sony TV, co-created with Seth Gordon Breaking In, which was canceled in May after a brief midseason run but remains in contention for a midseason berth on the network, something that may help Fox snatch Goldberg’s new project. The Gluck-produced The Yard presents the life lessons of elementary school as seen through the lens of an Office-like documentary. Read More »

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‘Easy A’ Helmer Will Gluck Makes Two-Year Sony Pictures Deal For Films And Series

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday May 25, 2011 @ 8:57am PDTTags: Amy Pascal, Clint Culpepper, Dana Brunetti, Emma Stone, Friends With Benefits, Justin Timberlake, Michael DeLuca, Michael Lynton, Mila Kunis, Scott Rudin, Will Gluck
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: After directing Easy A and the upcoming Justin Timberlake-Mila Kunis bedroom comedy Friends With Benefits for Screen Gems, Will Gluck has made a two-year development and production deal with Sony Pictures that covers TV and film and involves Screen … Read More »

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