Picks up untitled funniness project from Jason Sullivan
A week agone, newbie scribe Jason Sullivan had to be goaded to hawk meetings because his car couldn't go more than 45 miles per hour. Now, thanks to Columbia picking up his untitled comedy send off, he is ready to go shopping for a new ride.
Sullivan, world Health Organization studied screenwriting at Loyola Marymount, has been penning spec after spec since graduation piece holding down several jobs at once. At one point, he held five jobs, including apartment manager, script reviewer and a freelance author for a company that hired holders of edgar Lee Masters degrees to write spam e-mails that would catch through filters. One fortuitous job was as an assistant to "X-Men Origins: Magneto" writer Sheldon Turner.
Producer Jennifer Klein was over at Turner's one day and recounting a dinner she had with her husband, who complained how he missed out on a seminal moment in childhood by non attending summer camp.
Sullivan was there too. As an obsessive fan of summertime camp movies like "Meatballs," he saw movie electric potential and years later came up with a treatment and social system. The externalise revolves around three friends in their 30s world Health Organization realize their lives are incomplete because they never went to camp, so they rent out a camp and invite former adults to join them.
Turner and Klein, who have several projects around town, came up with a plan to take Sullivan's pitch to market, though one complication was the unreliability of Sullivan's elevator car.
"If you go over 45 miles per hour, it dies," Sullivan aforementioned. "If you make a sharp left hand turn, it peters out. And at stop signs, it necessarily to be revved all the time or it dies. People think I'm ready to race them in my '97 Saturn."
Sullivan all over up having to be ferried to some of the pitch meetings, which were a blur of bottled water and pocket-sized talk to the nervous newbie.
Columbia bought the project in a six-figure deal. Sullivan said he still can't believe he is being paid to write.
"It feels fantastical, but I'm afraid it's part of an rarify scam, that I'm existence grifted," he says. "I grew up obsessed with summer camp movies, and the fact that one day I might be able to go get wind one that I wrote blows my mind."
As to what he will do with his paycheck, he joked, "I'm going to pimp my car."
Sony's Doug Belgrad and Jonathan Kadin are overseeing the project.
More information
Sunday, 10 August 2008
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
Thursday, 19 June 2008
Selena Gomez: "No Sex Until Marriage"
The star of Disney's latest hit Wizards of Waverly Place, Selena Gomez, is staying a virgin until marriage, and she's not afraid to admit it.
The 15-year old actress caught up with Extra on the set of her Seventeen Magazine shoot, where she said that she plans to practice abstinence until she says 'I do,' even asking her dad to give her a promise ring as a reminder of her personal vow.
"I said, 'Dad, I want a promise ring.' He went to the church and got it blessed. He actually used me as an example for other kids," she says.
Selena, who is being hailed as the new Miley Cyrus, says waiting to have sex is not only a promise to herself, but to those who love her.
"I'm going to keep my promise to myself, to my family, and to God," she says.
For the entire interview with Selena tune in to Extra's Weekend Edition on Saturday, June 7 and Sunday, June 8.
See Also
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
U.S. publishers plan wave of Obama books this summer and fall
NEW YORK - Book publishers aren't waiting for a concession speech.
Several works about Senator Barack Obama, the Democrats' presumptive presidential candidate, are planned for the summer and fall, from children's stories and photographs to attacks from both the left and the right.
"Based on past election years, we anticipate strong customer interest in titles regarding the issues, candidates and election process," Bob Wietrak, a vice-president of merchandising at Barnes & Noble, Inc., said Thursday.
Obama has gained enough delegate support to effectively clinch the Democratic nomination, although Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is not expected to concede officially until Saturday. He has written two books, "Dreams From My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope," both million sellers.
"He tells his own story so eloquently, I can't imagine a book about him selling so well. Never," said Carla Cohen, co-owner of the Politics & Prose bookstore, based in Washington, D.C. She did say she there has been interest in some previous books, including David Mendell's "Obama," a biography published by HarperCollins last year and recently out in paperback.
"I think there is still a market for them (Obama books), although I have to say, it's hard to match his own storytelling," says Priscilla Painton, editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster, which has at least two Obama books planned.
"But there are two reasons why more Obama books might get traction. First, there's a market for a professional journalist telling the story drawing on all kinds of sources, not just Obama's version. But you also have to remember that lots of folks are only now waking up to the idea that he could be president, and so there's a second wave of buyers out there ready to read about him."
Simon & Schuster is publishing a biography about Obama's wife, Michelle Obama, by Washington Post reporter Liza Mundy. The book, currently untitled, will come out in October with a first printing of 100,000. Simon & Schuster is also releasing a children's work, "Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope," by author Nikki Grimes and illustrator Bryan Collier. Another story for young people, Garen Thomas' "Yes We Can," will come from Feiwel, a children's imprint of MacMillan.
PublicAffairs plans a revised version of a collection of the senator's speeches, "Barack Obama in His Own Words," and is already committed to a campaign book by Evan Thomas and the staff of Newsweek. Thomas Nelson, a religious publisher, will offer "The Faith of Barack Obama," by Stephen Mansfield, while Triumph Books plans Pete Souza's "The Rise of Barack Obama," a compilation of photographs.
The left-wing Verso Books has just released "The Decline of Black Politics: From Malcolm X to Barack Obama," by civil rights activist Kevin Alexander Gray. The conservative Regnery Publishing just announced two books for August: David Freddoso's "The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate," and Thomas Blood's "The Clinton Collapse: How Bill Clinton Lost Hillary Her 'Sure Thing' Nomination (And Might Even Make Obama Lose Too)."
"We intend to put him under the microscope, and we think readers will be very interested to learn what we uncover," says Marji Ross, president and publisher of Regnery, which in 2004 released "Unfit for Command," the best-selling attack against Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry.
Some books will be whimsical, such as Mathew Honan's "Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle: 366 Ways He Really Cares," coming in August from Penguin Group (USA). Others warn of end times, like "Obama - The Postmodern Coup: Making of a Manchurian Candidate," by Webster Griffin Tarpley, a radio commentator and author of "9-11 Synthetic Terror."
"Barack Obama is a deeply troubled personality, the megalomaniac front man for a postmodern coup by the intelligence agencies, using fake polls, mobs of swarming adolescents, superrich contributors and orchestrated media hysteria to short-circuit normal politics and seize power," according to the Progressive Press, which identifies itself as "America's Dedicated Truth Publisher."
See Also
Friday, 30 May 2008
August, Tavernier look to Outsider
French prod'n powerhouse boasts major slate
CANNES -- French banner Outsider Prods. will give audiences an inside look at post-World War II Germany and 16th century France with two new projects from directors Billie August and Bertrand Tavernier, both set to start shooting early next year.
The production powerhouse behind 2005 boxoffice hit "Sky Fighters" – the French take on "Top Gun" which drew more than 1.3 million admissions in France -- is back with a new slate of projects. August's "Le Juge" (The Judge), based in Berlin in 1944, is co-produced by Ilann Girard's Arsam and will start shooting during the first quarter of 2009.
The 10-15 million euros ($15 million-$23 million) English-language film is based on Vladimir Volkoff's novel "L'interrogatoire" and producers are seeking an Anglo-Saxon A-list cast, still in negotiations. A two-time Palme d'Or winner, August's most recent director credit was the Nelson Mandela prison guard story "Goodbye Bafana."
Tavernier's "The Princess of Montpensier," co-produced by Paris-based companies Ocean Films and Paradis Films, is also set to start shooting in early 2009. "Princess" described by Outsider's president Laurent Brochand as "a 16th century 'Indochine,'" is expecting a star-studded Gallic cast. Tavernier recently completed the James lee Burke adaptation "In The Electric Mist" starring Tommy Lee Jones.
Elsewhere, Outsider will kickoff shooting on Olivier Doran's comedy "Le Coach" on July 15 in Paris. The 6.8 million euros ($10.5 million) project about a life coach guiding both his patients through sports, politics, business and love, stars Jean-Paul Rouve and Richard Berry alongside boxoffice sensation "Welcome to the Sticks" star Anne Marivin.
Released by Mars Distribution in Gaul, "Coach" is co-produced by Canal Plus and mobile operator Orange's film arm Studio 37, which is also handling international sales.
Outsider will also be heading to the Canadian slopes soon to shoot skiing comedy "Hors Piste," a 6 millon-8 million euros ($9.3-$12.4 million) Franco-Canadian co-production from director Eric Delcourt and starring Stephane Rousseau.
See Also
Saturday, 10 May 2008
Singer Lenny Kravitz is hospitalised
Singer Lenny Kravitz is hospitalised
Singer Lenny Kravitz has been admitted to a infirmary in Miami to be treated for severe bronchitis.
The 43-year-old instrumentalist has reportedly been suffering from a series of severe respiratory nerve pathway infections, as good as grippe, since mid-January.
A spokesperson for the star said in a statement: "Due to extreme dehydration and fatigue, doctors were unable to control it with outpatient treatment and advised the isaac M. Singer to contain into the hospital."
"He was taken this dawning to the emergency room at Mount up Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami for immediate discourse."
Kravitz's illness has forced him to shelve promotion events for his newly album 'It Is Time for a Love Revolution'.
Thursday, 1 May 2008
Ike Turner died from cocaine overdose
Ike Turner died from cocaine overdose
Somebody isaac M. Singer Dwight Eisenhower Turner died from a cocain o.d., according to the San Diego County checkup examiner.
The 76-year-old was plant dead at his home near San Diego on 12 Dec last year.
The medical checkup inspector yesterday said that an post-mortem proved that a long history of cardiovascular disease and pulmonary emphysema had contributed to the star's death.
Henry Hubert Turner reportedly had a history of cocain addiction stretching over 30 age.
Deranged
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)