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“Academy Conversations” Q&A With Will Packer Marks Org’s Sundance Debut

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday January 17, 2013 @ 9:02pm PSTTags: Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Wrap-Up, Will Packer

Jen Yamato is a Deadline contributor.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences will make its official debut at the Sundance Film Festival with an event featuring new member Will Packer, producer of such films as last year’s Think Like A Man, 2007’s Stomp The Yard and the 2009 Beyonce Knowles starrer Obsessed. Co-presented with The Blackhouse Foundation, an organization that promotes black filmmakers at festivals around the country, the inaugural Sundance edition of “Academy Conversations” will take place at 3:30 PM January 19 at Park City’s Buona Vita. Blackhouse Foundation chairman Brickson Diamond will moderate the discussion. In addition to the aforementioned Sony/Screen Gems movies, Packer’s Rainforest Films produced and self-distributed successful urban titles including 2000’s thriller Trois, which spawned two sequels and launched the feature directing career of Stomp The Yard’s Sylvain White. Saturday’s event will be followed by a reception “addressing such initiatives as Awards qualification rules, filmmaker engagement, educational programs, festival grants and membership” with Academy execs Randy Haberkamp, Patrick Harrison and Torene Svitil in attendance.
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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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Screen Gems Casts ‘Think Like A Man’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday May 24, 2011 @ 6:40am PDTTags: Gabrielle Union, Gary Owen, Kevin Hart, Michael Ealy, Steve Harvey, Tim Story, Will Packer
Mike Fleming

Screen Gems has set the cast to surround Kevin Hart in Think Like A Man, the comedy based on Steve Harvey’s bestselling book. Michael Ealy, Jerry Ferrara, Taraji Henson, Romany Malco, Gary Owen and Gabrielle Union have joined the cast. … Read More »

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Tim Story Set To Direct Screen Gems Comedy ‘Think Like A Man’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday April 26, 2011 @ 1:37pm PDTTags: Kevin Hart, Screen Gems, Steve Harvey, Tim Story, Will Packer
Mike Fleming

UPDATE: Sony has given the film a wide-release date: April 6, 2012.
PREVIOUS, EXCLUSIVE: Screen Gems has set Tim Story to direct Think Like A Man, the ensemble comedy based on Steve Harvey’s bestselling 2009 book Act Like A … Read More »

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Screen Gems Sets Kevin Hart To Star In Steve Harvey Pic ‘Think Like A Man’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday April 19, 2011 @ 5:43am PDTTags: Clint Culpepper, Kevin Hart, Screen Gems, Steve Harvey, Will Packer
Mike Fleming

Kevin Hart will star in Think Like A Man, the Screen Gems comedy based on Steve Harvey’s bestselling 2009 book Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man. The book is a male-perspective self-help manual for relationships, with topics that included everything from why men cheat, to why men are in the fixing business and not in the talking business, to how to get the wedding ring and why independent women should reconnect with their girlish side to make their men feel necessary. Like I said, it’s from a male perspective. In the film, Hart will play a self-professed relationship expert who is quick to give advice to his crew of friends, even as he watched his own marriage crater and head toward divorce. The comedy’s scripted by Keith Merryman & David A. Newman, and Screen Gems’ Clint Culpepper is out to directors for a July production start. Will Packer’s producing through his Rainforest Films banner and Harvey is exec producing with Rushion McDonald and Rob Hardy. Read More »

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