Realm, the largest independent fiction podcast network, today announced its board of advisors as well as plans to adapt several of their audio projects for television.
The board, appointed as Realm celebrated its one-year anniversary in Spring 2022, includes change makers from the entertainment, technology, and media sectors whose counsel will guide the company into the future. They are Lauren Zalaznick, who has advised Gimlet and Ira Glass’ Serial Productions; Michael Smith, NPR’s Chief Marketing Officer; Russell Binder, President of IP accelerator Striker Entertainment; and Marci Wiseman, award-winning producer and former Co-President of Blumhouse TV.
The company also announced the expansion of Realm IP into the Film/TV marketplace, formalizing deals with creatives like Wendy Calhoun (Empire), who is developing a TV adaptation of the Webby winner, If I Go Missing the Witches Did It with writer Pia Wilson; as well as executive producers Teri Weinberg and Danielle Claman Gelber (OneChicago), developing First Street, Realm’s timely Supreme Court drama; and Janet Zucker who is developing a TV adaptation of Bullet Catcher with writer Stephen Susco (The Grudge).
Realm has added several third-party content partners acquiring titles from Leviathan Audio Productions, Fool & Scholar, Observer Pictures, Storytellers Ink, and Violet Hour Media, whose show Hollow hit #2 this month on the Apple Fiction Charts.
“I’m delighted to announce this talented board of advisors with deep experience in audio, entertainment, and innovative brand building. Lauren, Michael, Russ, and Marci are exceptional leaders in their own right; their business acumen, vision and long-standing relationships will be essential to Realm’s growth as we continue to engage listeners with our award-winning, chart-topping series,” said Realm co-founder and CEO Molly Barton. “We are also truly excited about the opportunity to align with Wendy, Teri, Danielle and Janet to adapt our compelling storytelling for TV and bring some of our most popular and immersive franchises to life in a whole new way.”
Recently, Realm released the podcast Power Trip, an original dark comedy starring and executive produced by She-Hulk and Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany with appearances by Grammy winner Lisa Loeb and Locke & Key’s Brendan Hines. Other releases include The Co-Founder, a Silicon Valley workplace comedy starring Sunita Mani and Alexandra Shipp (with vocal performances from skating legend Tony Hawk) and Marigold Breach, the cyberpunk action-romance podcast starring The Good Place co-stars Jameela Jamil and Manny Jacinto which rose to No. 2 in the fiction charts upon its debut.
Realm launched in April 2021. Nearly 90 percent of its shows have reached the top 100 of the most popular fiction podcasts in the U.S.
The board, appointed as Realm celebrated its one-year anniversary in Spring 2022, includes change makers from the entertainment, technology, and media sectors whose counsel will guide the company into the future. They are Lauren Zalaznick, who has advised Gimlet and Ira Glass’ Serial Productions; Michael Smith, NPR’s Chief Marketing Officer; Russell Binder, President of IP accelerator Striker Entertainment; and Marci Wiseman, award-winning producer and former Co-President of Blumhouse TV.
The company also announced the expansion of Realm IP into the Film/TV marketplace, formalizing deals with creatives like Wendy Calhoun (Empire), who is developing a TV adaptation of the Webby winner, If I Go Missing the Witches Did It with writer Pia Wilson; as well as executive producers Teri Weinberg and Danielle Claman Gelber (OneChicago), developing First Street, Realm’s timely Supreme Court drama; and Janet Zucker who is developing a TV adaptation of Bullet Catcher with writer Stephen Susco (The Grudge).
Realm has added several third-party content partners acquiring titles from Leviathan Audio Productions, Fool & Scholar, Observer Pictures, Storytellers Ink, and Violet Hour Media, whose show Hollow hit #2 this month on the Apple Fiction Charts.
“I’m delighted to announce this talented board of advisors with deep experience in audio, entertainment, and innovative brand building. Lauren, Michael, Russ, and Marci are exceptional leaders in their own right; their business acumen, vision and long-standing relationships will be essential to Realm’s growth as we continue to engage listeners with our award-winning, chart-topping series,” said Realm co-founder and CEO Molly Barton. “We are also truly excited about the opportunity to align with Wendy, Teri, Danielle and Janet to adapt our compelling storytelling for TV and bring some of our most popular and immersive franchises to life in a whole new way.”
Recently, Realm released the podcast Power Trip, an original dark comedy starring and executive produced by She-Hulk and Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany with appearances by Grammy winner Lisa Loeb and Locke & Key’s Brendan Hines. Other releases include The Co-Founder, a Silicon Valley workplace comedy starring Sunita Mani and Alexandra Shipp (with vocal performances from skating legend Tony Hawk) and Marigold Breach, the cyberpunk action-romance podcast starring The Good Place co-stars Jameela Jamil and Manny Jacinto which rose to No. 2 in the fiction charts upon its debut.
Realm launched in April 2021. Nearly 90 percent of its shows have reached the top 100 of the most popular fiction podcasts in the U.S.
- 7/28/2022
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Producer Janet Zucker has optioned the film rights to Cynthia Pelayo’s International Latino Book Award winner Children of Chicago for Zucker Productions, with producer Tony Eldridge (The Equalizer films) for Lonetree Entertainment.
The two-time Bram Stoker Award-nominated author’s horror novel is billed as a gripping, modern-day spin on the Pied Piper fairy tale, as well as a gritty love letter to the underbelly of Chicago. In it, Detective Lauren Medina’s latest call brings her to investigate a brutally murdered teenager in Humboldt Park―a crime eerily like her sister’s murder decades before. Unlike her strait-laced partner, she recognizes the crime, and the new graffiti popping up all over the city, as a message: the Pied Piper has returned, and debts shall be paid.
“Cynthia has done an amazing job creating a unique multilevel story with unforgettable characters that jump off...
The two-time Bram Stoker Award-nominated author’s horror novel is billed as a gripping, modern-day spin on the Pied Piper fairy tale, as well as a gritty love letter to the underbelly of Chicago. In it, Detective Lauren Medina’s latest call brings her to investigate a brutally murdered teenager in Humboldt Park―a crime eerily like her sister’s murder decades before. Unlike her strait-laced partner, she recognizes the crime, and the new graffiti popping up all over the city, as a message: the Pied Piper has returned, and debts shall be paid.
“Cynthia has done an amazing job creating a unique multilevel story with unforgettable characters that jump off...
- 2/10/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The Grudge screenwriter Stephen Susco is set to adapt the Bullet Catcher podcast as a television series.
Audio company Realm, which is behind the podcast series, which is in its third season, is adapting with Airplane! and Police Squad producer Zucker Productions.
It marks the latest audio series to be developed for the small screen.
Bullet Catcher, which was created by Joaquin Lowe, is centered around Imma, an orphan who feels that she has nothing to lose after her brother goes missing, decides to brave the treacherous desert in order to become a mystical bullet catcher–an outlaw who can fend off bullets with a bare hand. When given the opportunity to work with a real bullet catcher, she jumps at the chance to honor her brother’s legacy and learn the tricks of the trade only to uncover a shocking secret that propels her on an unexpected journey of grit,...
Audio company Realm, which is behind the podcast series, which is in its third season, is adapting with Airplane! and Police Squad producer Zucker Productions.
It marks the latest audio series to be developed for the small screen.
Bullet Catcher, which was created by Joaquin Lowe, is centered around Imma, an orphan who feels that she has nothing to lose after her brother goes missing, decides to brave the treacherous desert in order to become a mystical bullet catcher–an outlaw who can fend off bullets with a bare hand. When given the opportunity to work with a real bullet catcher, she jumps at the chance to honor her brother’s legacy and learn the tricks of the trade only to uncover a shocking secret that propels her on an unexpected journey of grit,...
- 5/7/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Big Beach, the company that brought us Marielle Heller’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood and Lulu Wang’s Independent Spirit Award-winning The Farewell, has set an adaptation of the memoir Running A Thousand Miles For Freedom by William and Ellen Craft. The feature will be titled 1000 Miles and Hanelle M. Culpepper is set to direct with Selwyn Seyfu Hinds penning the script.
1000 Miles is the true story of the aforementioned William and Ellen Craft, an enslaved couple that go on a daring thousand-mile escape to freedom from Georgia to Boston by hiding in plain sight with Ellen disguised as a white male slave owner and her husband, William, passing as her slave. The story follows their journey as they fight the terror of discovery, the dangerous men on their tail and the complications the ruse brings to their relationship.
“It’s simply astounding to think about a...
1000 Miles is the true story of the aforementioned William and Ellen Craft, an enslaved couple that go on a daring thousand-mile escape to freedom from Georgia to Boston by hiding in plain sight with Ellen disguised as a white male slave owner and her husband, William, passing as her slave. The story follows their journey as they fight the terror of discovery, the dangerous men on their tail and the complications the ruse brings to their relationship.
“It’s simply astounding to think about a...
- 2/26/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Doug Liman is an independent filmmaker who gets away with murder in Hollywood because he boasts a string of major hits, from “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” and “The Bourne Identity” to “Edge of Tomorrow.” He often throws sets into chaos in order to achieve unexpected results. “My films have been successful and therefore the process has accommodated me,” he once told me. “When the studio said ‘no,’ I did it anyhow. Now, they don’t say no to me.”
Indeed. Liman’s films are consistently watchable and entertaining in their quirky unpredictability, even with his misfires (see: “Jumper”). Indie-financed “Fair Game” (Summit Entertainment), which earned mixed reviews (Metascore: 69) and struggled at the 2010 box office (domestic total: $9 million), is hardly the usual candidate for a re-release 8 years later. Yet here it is. “I’ve never seen a rule I didn’t think about breaking,” he told me on the phone.
In typical fashion,...
Indeed. Liman’s films are consistently watchable and entertaining in their quirky unpredictability, even with his misfires (see: “Jumper”). Indie-financed “Fair Game” (Summit Entertainment), which earned mixed reviews (Metascore: 69) and struggled at the 2010 box office (domestic total: $9 million), is hardly the usual candidate for a re-release 8 years later. Yet here it is. “I’ve never seen a rule I didn’t think about breaking,” he told me on the phone.
In typical fashion,...
- 10/8/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Doug Liman is an independent filmmaker who gets away with murder in Hollywood because he boasts a string of major hits, from “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” and “The Bourne Identity” to “Edge of Tomorrow.” He often throws sets into chaos in order to achieve unexpected results. “My films have been successful and therefore the process has accommodated me,” he once told me. “When the studio said ‘no,’ I did it anyhow. Now, they don’t say no to me.”
Indeed. Liman’s films are consistently watchable and entertaining in their quirky unpredictability, even with his misfires (see: “Jumper”). Indie-financed “Fair Game” (Summit Entertainment), which earned mixed reviews (Metascore: 69) and struggled at the 2010 box office (domestic total: $9 million), is hardly the usual candidate for a re-release 8 years later. Yet here it is. “I’ve never seen a rule I didn’t think about breaking,” he told me on the phone.
In typical fashion,...
Indeed. Liman’s films are consistently watchable and entertaining in their quirky unpredictability, even with his misfires (see: “Jumper”). Indie-financed “Fair Game” (Summit Entertainment), which earned mixed reviews (Metascore: 69) and struggled at the 2010 box office (domestic total: $9 million), is hardly the usual candidate for a re-release 8 years later. Yet here it is. “I’ve never seen a rule I didn’t think about breaking,” he told me on the phone.
In typical fashion,...
- 10/8/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Hot on the heels of word that Paramount is reworking its planned sequel to the fantasy film "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters" into a TV series, ABC is reportedly looking at doing a TV series sequel to the popular Julia Roberts romantic comedy "My Best Friend's Wedding".
ABC has signed on for a script commitment plus penalty for the project which would pick up right where the events of the 1997 movie left off. Roberts' character Julianne will be in New York City living life and still getting advice from her gay pal George.
Ron Bass and Jessica Amento are writing the script for the follow-up while original producers Jerry and Janet Zucker will be back to executive produce alongside Bass and Mike Menchel. Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Rupert Everett and Cameron Diaz are not expected to reprise their roles.
This continues a hot trend this past season which saw both TV...
ABC has signed on for a script commitment plus penalty for the project which would pick up right where the events of the 1997 movie left off. Roberts' character Julianne will be in New York City living life and still getting advice from her gay pal George.
Ron Bass and Jessica Amento are writing the script for the follow-up while original producers Jerry and Janet Zucker will be back to executive produce alongside Bass and Mike Menchel. Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Rupert Everett and Cameron Diaz are not expected to reprise their roles.
This continues a hot trend this past season which saw both TV...
- 10/16/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
The Julia Roberts rom-com classic My Best Friend's Wedding is getting the old TV reboot. THR reports that ABC is developing an adaptation with the movie's original writer and producer: Ron Bass is writing the script with Jessica Amento, and Jerry Zucker will serve as executive producer alongside Janet Zucker and Mike Menchel. The show will take place right after the film's titular wedding, following a bruised Julianne Potter (played by Julia, duh) as she returns to New York with her gay best friend George (played by Rupert Everett). We're already casting young Julia Robertses and Rupert Everetts in our heads — Karen Gillan and Matthew Lewis, get your agents on the phone.
- 10/15/2015
- by E. Alex Jung
- Vulture
If you’ve said a little prayer for My Best Friend’s Wedding to live on in some form, that prayer has been answered.
ABC is developing a single-camera, half-hour comedy that will serve as a sequel to the 1997 Julia Roberts film, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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In the big screen rom-com, Julianne (played by Roberts) secretly tries to sabotage the wedding of her old friend/longtime crush Michael (Dermot Mulroney) to a woman (Cameron Diaz) Julianne thinks is wrong for him.
Ron Bass, who wrote the movie, will pen...
ABC is developing a single-camera, half-hour comedy that will serve as a sequel to the 1997 Julia Roberts film, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
RelatedABC Developing Thousandth Floor, Based on Upcoming Ya Book Series
In the big screen rom-com, Julianne (played by Roberts) secretly tries to sabotage the wedding of her old friend/longtime crush Michael (Dermot Mulroney) to a woman (Cameron Diaz) Julianne thinks is wrong for him.
Ron Bass, who wrote the movie, will pen...
- 10/15/2015
- TVLine.com
ABC has put in development a half-hour comedy series that would serve as a sequel to the 1997 feature My Best Friend’s Wedding, starring Julia Roberts. Oscar-winning scribe Ron Bass (Rain Man), who wrote the feature screenplay, will co-write the pilot with Jessica Amento. Bass also will executive produce with Happy Madison’s Doug Robinson, Mike Menchel and the film’s producer Jerry Zucker and Janet Zucker. Amento will serve as co-producer. ABC’s My Best Friend’s Wedding…...
- 10/15/2015
- Deadline TV
Pj Hogan’s Mental has been picked up for distribution in the Us.
The film will get a theatrical and Video-On-Demand release, with a date set for 29 March.
Dada Films has acquired the film that sees Hogan re-unite with Australian actress Toni Collette.
The deal was negotiated by Mj Peckos and Steven Raphael of Dada Films and film producers Jerry and Janet Zucker and Todd Fellman.
Mental was the fifth highest grossing Australian film at the local box office, taking $4m.
Pj Hogan was nominated for Best Original Screenplay for the film at the AACTAs, held last night, however Keiran Darcy Smith won for Wish You Were Here.
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The film will get a theatrical and Video-On-Demand release, with a date set for 29 March.
Dada Films has acquired the film that sees Hogan re-unite with Australian actress Toni Collette.
The deal was negotiated by Mj Peckos and Steven Raphael of Dada Films and film producers Jerry and Janet Zucker and Todd Fellman.
Mental was the fifth highest grossing Australian film at the local box office, taking $4m.
Pj Hogan was nominated for Best Original Screenplay for the film at the AACTAs, held last night, however Keiran Darcy Smith won for Wish You Were Here.
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- 1/30/2013
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Dada Films has acquired theatrical and ancillary rights to the P.J. Hogan comedy “Mental,” starring Toni Collette, Liev Schreiber, Rebecca Gibney, Anthony Lapaglia and Kerry Fox. The company plans a day-and-date theatrical/VOD release March 29. “Mental” is centered around the dysfunctional Moochmore family. When the “Sound of Music”-obsessed matriarch is committed to a mental hospital, the philandering father brings in a nutty hitchhiker to be nanny to his five teenaged daughters until a shark hunter appears to throw a wrench in the situation. Jerry Zucker, Janet Zucker, Todd Fellman and Jocelyn Moorhouse produced. The film had its North American debut at the 2013 Palm Springs International Film Festival earlier this month. “We are thrilled to be working with the Zuckers on one of their favorite collaborations -- a Pj Hogan / Toni Collette film!” said Dada Films’ Mj Peckos and Steven Raphael. “And we are...
- 1/29/2013
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- Indiewire
Dada Films has picked up Mental helmed by P.J. Hogan and starring Toni Collette with plans to release the comedy in theaters and VOD on March 29th, reports Variety. Also in the cast are Anthony Lapaglia, Rebecca Gibney, Kerry Fox, Caroline Goodall, Deborah Mailman and Sam Clark. Collette plays a charismatic, crazy hothead who transforms a family's life when she becomes the nanny of five girls whose mother has cracked due to her husband's political ambitions, and also his infidelity. The Jerry Zucker, Janet Zucker, Todd Fellman and Jocelyn Moorhouse-produced film...
- 1/29/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Dada Films has picked up Mental helmed by P.J. Hogan and starring Toni Collette with plans to release the comedy in theaters and VOD on March 29th, reports Variety. Also in the cast are Anthony Lapaglia, Rebecca Gibney, Kerry Fox, Caroline Goodall, Deborah Mailman and Sam Clark. Collette plays a charismatic, crazy hothead who transforms a family's life when she becomes the nanny of five girls whose mother has cracked due to her husband's political ambitions, and also his infidelity. The Jerry Zucker, Janet Zucker, Todd Fellman and Jocelyn Moorhouse-produced film...
- 1/29/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Writer-director Pj Hogan’s upcoming comedy-drama, ‘Mental,’ starring Toni Collette, Liev Schreiber and Anthony Lapaglia, is set to open in select theaters and on VOD on Friday, March 29. The film, which was produced by Janet Zucker, Jery Zucker, Todd Fellman and Jocelyn Moorhouse, is told in the filmmaker’s usual colorful, comedic and musical interludes. The comedic story follows the Moochmore girls, who are certain they all suffer from an undiagnosed neurotic mental issue. If they don’t, that means they’re just unpopular. The mother of the family, Shirley, played by Rebecca Gibney, is unable to cope with her energetic daughters and her philandering politician husband, Barry, portrayed by Lapaglia. Living in [ Read More ]
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- 1/15/2013
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
Liev Schreiber, Anthony Lapaglia and Rebecca Gibney have all joined the cast of P.J. Hogan's "Mental" for Universal Pictures Australia says Variety.
Toni Collette plays a crazy hotheaded hitchhiker who is brought on to nanny five girls by their father, a philandering politician, after his wife is hospitalized for a nervous breakdown.
Gibney will play her older sister and is putting on around nine kilograms (20 pounds) for the role. A three month shoot kicked off this week.
Jerry Zucker, Janet Zucker, Todd Fellman and Jocelyn Moorhouse will produce. The project marks Hogan's first Australian film since "Muriel's Wedding" in 1994.
Toni Collette plays a crazy hotheaded hitchhiker who is brought on to nanny five girls by their father, a philandering politician, after his wife is hospitalized for a nervous breakdown.
Gibney will play her older sister and is putting on around nine kilograms (20 pounds) for the role. A three month shoot kicked off this week.
Jerry Zucker, Janet Zucker, Todd Fellman and Jocelyn Moorhouse will produce. The project marks Hogan's first Australian film since "Muriel's Wedding" in 1994.
- 7/25/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Walking into the second annual Academy Governors Awards reception, I was gobsmacked by who was milling in front of the photographers at the entrance. 12-year-old Elle Fanning posed with her Somewhere co-star Stephen Dorff and The Ghost Writer's Olivia Williams; George Lucas was chatting up Godfather stars Robert Duvall and James Caan, as Sofia, Francis Ford Coppola and his wife of 48 years, Eleanor, greeted Peter Fonda. Clint Eastwood and wife Dina Ruiz were entering the cocktail area, joining Dick and Lili Zanuck, Eva Marie Saint, Marisa Tomei, Sid Ganis, Gil Cates, Allan Arkush, Marcia Ross, Bill Pohlad, Anne Coates, Heather Graham, Cari Beauchamp, Howard Rodman, Bruce Davis, Mike Medavoy, Scott Foundas, Tom Luddy, Jerry and Janet Zucker, and Fox co-chairman Jim Gianopulos. Fair Game ...
- 11/14/2010
- Thompson on Hollywood
Richard Starkings has discussed the movie adaptation of his Elephantmen series. The Image Comics title is being adapted into a film featuring a mix of live action and CGI by producer Janet Zucker. "It may even involve men in suits because they did it really well in Where the Wild Things Are," Starkings told Digital Spy at McM Expo. "I'm not precious - I trust the producers - but I did hold out. I had offers for standard cell animations, but I didn't want it to be dumbed down. I wanted it presented as a heavy, science fiction, futuristic, dark fantasy. (more)...
- 6/1/2010
- by By Hugh Armitage
- Digital Spy
Over fifteen years after they first teamed, "Muriel's Wedding" director P.J. Hogan and star Toni Collette are reuniting for the comedy "Mental" for Studio says Variety.
Collette plays a charismatic and unbalanced 'hothead' who becomes the nanny of five girls and ends up transforming their life. Hogan wrote the script based on his own experiences.
Jerry Zucker, Janet Zucker, Todd Fellman and Jocelyn Moorhouse will produce. Filming kicks off in Australia in January.
Collette plays a charismatic and unbalanced 'hothead' who becomes the nanny of five girls and ends up transforming their life. Hogan wrote the script based on his own experiences.
Jerry Zucker, Janet Zucker, Todd Fellman and Jocelyn Moorhouse will produce. Filming kicks off in Australia in January.
- 5/13/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Muriel's Wedding director P.J. Hogan and star Toni Collette are reuniting for Mental , which Variety says is "about a charismatic, crazy hothead who transforms a family's life when she becomes the nanny of five girls." Hogan will begin shooting the project in Australia in January. He also wrote the script, inspired by his own experiences. "Like 'Muriel's Wedding,' 'Mental' is a comedy, but a comedy based on reality, laced with pain and brimming with flawed but lovable characters. Shaz (the central character) was hilarious, outrageous, dangerous, courageous, inspiring, heartbreaking and totally, totally mad. And she changed my life," Hogan said. Jerry and Janet Zucker will produce along with Todd Fellman and Jocelyn Moorhouse.
- 5/12/2010
- Comingsoon.net
Cbr is reporting that Zucker Productions has acquired the rights to Richard Starkings' "Elephantmen" comic book series in order to adapt it for the big screen. The treatment for the movie is being drafted by Starkings. "Richard has created a world of implausible ideas and impossible characters, a world where transgenic animals and human beings come together in a dark, yet hopeful universe," said producer Janet Zucker. "['Ghost' director] Jerry Zucker and I can't wait to bring the stories of Hip, Horn and Sahara to life on screen in a way that will simply take your breath away." "Elephantmen" takes place in Los Angeles in the not too distant future -- in a world where human/animal hybrids were created to fight a war between Africa and China. Scarred by their experiences in war and seeking to somehow find their own humanity, the Elephantmen are now scattered throughout the world amongst the...
- 4/13/2010
- WorstPreviews.com
With Liman specializing himself as a action man, the ensemble of factors as to why I'm looking forward to the film have nothing to do with who is behind the camera. With Participant Media on board, 21 Gram duo Watts & Penn playing real folk - this has the potential of being a hard-hitting commentary on how people on the inside get rid of problems. - #49. Fair Game Director:...
- 2/3/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Jon Turteltaub signs up to direct a film about the birth of the campaigning group, with Jerry 'Naked Gun' Zucker producing
It started in 1971, when a ramshackle fishing vessel with a ragtag crew of anti-war protesters sailed to a remote island north of Alaska in the hope of disrupting Us nuclear weapons tests. Taking its name from the rechristened boat, Greenpeace grew into an environmental movement that is still grabbing the headlines almost four decades on. Now Hollywood plans to put that story on the big screen, with Greenpeace's blessing, and hired the director of National Treasure and the producer of the Airplane and Naked Gun films to do it.
According to Variety, Jon Turteltaub, whose CV also includes Cool Runnings and While You Were Sleeping, has signed to direct, with Jerry and Janet Zucker producing. The trade paper also reports that The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin has been approached to write the script.
It started in 1971, when a ramshackle fishing vessel with a ragtag crew of anti-war protesters sailed to a remote island north of Alaska in the hope of disrupting Us nuclear weapons tests. Taking its name from the rechristened boat, Greenpeace grew into an environmental movement that is still grabbing the headlines almost four decades on. Now Hollywood plans to put that story on the big screen, with Greenpeace's blessing, and hired the director of National Treasure and the producer of the Airplane and Naked Gun films to do it.
According to Variety, Jon Turteltaub, whose CV also includes Cool Runnings and While You Were Sleeping, has signed to direct, with Jerry and Janet Zucker producing. The trade paper also reports that The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin has been approached to write the script.
- 11/17/2009
- by Chai Hong Lim
- The Guardian - Film News
"National Treasure" director Jon Turteltaub will direct a film detailing the roots of the Greenpeace movement. Jerry and Janet Zucker will produce.The story will be set in the late 1970s and early 1980s and told through the eyes of the organization's founding members, Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler. According to Variety, Aurelius Films is financing development of the project, and the company's Matthew Joynes and Jesse Kennedy are also producers. Joynes, has secured the organization's official cooperation, and has also acquired the rights to two books that will form the story: Weyler's "Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists, and Visionaries Changed the World" and Hunter's "Warriors of the Rainbow: A Chronicle of the Greenpeace Movement."The producers have been in...
- 11/14/2009
- by Adnan Tezer
- Monsters and Critics
By Variety
"National Treasure" helmer Jon Turteltaub is on board to direct a bigscreen project chronicling the origin of the Greenpeace movement, with Jerry and Janet Zucker producing.Set primarily in the late 1970s and early 1980s, story will be told through the eyes of the controversial organization's charismatic founding members, Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler.
Read more at Variety.
"National Treasure" helmer Jon Turteltaub is on board to direct a bigscreen project chronicling the origin of the Greenpeace movement, with Jerry and Janet Zucker producing.Set primarily in the late 1970s and early 1980s, story will be told through the eyes of the controversial organization's charismatic founding members, Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler.
Read more at Variety.
- 11/13/2009
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
I always thought that Captain Kirk and Spock were the greatest environmentalists around, but apparently they are nothing compared to Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler, founders of Greenpeace. Now Jon Turteltaub of National Treasure fame is directing a movie based on the origins of their movement, with Jerry and Janet Zucker producing. Variety has some details: Set primarily in the late 1970s and early 1980s, story will be told through the eyes of the controversial organization’s charismatic founding members, Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler. The duo led an eccentric group of pacifists, ecologists, musicians, teachers, sailors, and scientists as they attempted — often successfully — to disrupt American and French nuclear bomb tests, Japanese and Russian whaling ships and Norwegian infant harp seal hunters. In the process, they inadvertently started a movement that is still going strong nearly four decades later. The film will primarily be based on two books, Weyler...
- 11/13/2009
- by Jacob
- Beyond Hollywood
Jon Turteltaub, the director behind the National Treasure films as well as the upcoming The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, is in talks to direct a film based on the origins of the Greenpeace movement in the 1970s and 1980s — specifically, its founders, Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler.
I’m actually a little surprised that no one has attempted to put this story on film before, because the rise of this organization was quite an impressive feat from an unlikely alliance of teachers, pacifists and ecologists, who “attempted — often successfully — to disrupt American and French nuclear bomb tests, Japanese and Russian whaling ships and Norwegian infant harp seal hunters. In the process, they inadvertently started a movement that is still going strong nearly four decades later.”
The film will draw source material from two books: Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists and Visionaries Changed the World (written by Weyler) and Bob Hunter...
I’m actually a little surprised that no one has attempted to put this story on film before, because the rise of this organization was quite an impressive feat from an unlikely alliance of teachers, pacifists and ecologists, who “attempted — often successfully — to disrupt American and French nuclear bomb tests, Japanese and Russian whaling ships and Norwegian infant harp seal hunters. In the process, they inadvertently started a movement that is still going strong nearly four decades later.”
The film will draw source material from two books: Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists and Visionaries Changed the World (written by Weyler) and Bob Hunter...
- 11/13/2009
- by John Cooper
- Atomic Popcorn
London -- Abu Dhabi's $1 billion production arm Imagenation has said Doug Liman's "Fair Game," starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts, will mark a third project to benefit from investment as part of its $250 million production pact with Participant Media.
Imagenation and Participant have partnered with River Road Entertainment on the political thriller, which recently wrapped principal photography.
Written by Jez and John-Henry Butterworth and produced by Bill Pohlad, Janet Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Akiva Goldsman, Liman and Jez Butterworth, "Fair Game" is billed as a political thriller.
Imagenation Abu Dhabi CEO Ed Borgerding said: "We are very pleased to join forces with Participant Media and River Road on this powerful account of one woman's struggle to speak truth to power."
River Road Entertainment President Mitch Horwits said he was thrilled to have Participant and Imagenation Abu Dhabi as partners on the project.
It follows investment by Imagenation and Participant Media...
Imagenation and Participant have partnered with River Road Entertainment on the political thriller, which recently wrapped principal photography.
Written by Jez and John-Henry Butterworth and produced by Bill Pohlad, Janet Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Akiva Goldsman, Liman and Jez Butterworth, "Fair Game" is billed as a political thriller.
Imagenation Abu Dhabi CEO Ed Borgerding said: "We are very pleased to join forces with Participant Media and River Road on this powerful account of one woman's struggle to speak truth to power."
River Road Entertainment President Mitch Horwits said he was thrilled to have Participant and Imagenation Abu Dhabi as partners on the project.
It follows investment by Imagenation and Participant Media...
- 7/13/2009
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Liraz Charhi has been cast in "Fair Game," the Doug Liman-directed drama about outed CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson. Naomi Watts already has been cast as Plame. Sean Penn plays her husband, ambassador Joseph Wilson.
The Israeli actress will play the fictional Sawsan, an Iraqi doctor in Cleveland whom Plame sends undercover to Baghdad to gather intelligence on Saddam Hussein's nuclear program in exchange for bringing her brother to the U.S.
The movie centers on how Plame's status was compromised because of a leak from the Bush administration, allegedly in retaliation for a 2003 op-ed piece her husband wrote claiming the administration manipulated intelligence on Iraq.
Bill Pohlad's River Road is financing. Akiva Goldsman of Weed Road and Jerry and Janet Zucker of Zucker Prods. are producing the film.
The film, based on Plame's memoir, is filming in New York and the Middle East.
Charhi is managed by Flutie Entertainment.
The Israeli actress will play the fictional Sawsan, an Iraqi doctor in Cleveland whom Plame sends undercover to Baghdad to gather intelligence on Saddam Hussein's nuclear program in exchange for bringing her brother to the U.S.
The movie centers on how Plame's status was compromised because of a leak from the Bush administration, allegedly in retaliation for a 2003 op-ed piece her husband wrote claiming the administration manipulated intelligence on Iraq.
Bill Pohlad's River Road is financing. Akiva Goldsman of Weed Road and Jerry and Janet Zucker of Zucker Prods. are producing the film.
The film, based on Plame's memoir, is filming in New York and the Middle East.
Charhi is managed by Flutie Entertainment.
- 5/26/2009
- by By Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A news conference is set for 11:45 a.m. Wednesday in Los Angeles to announce the Science and Entertainment Exchange, a one-stop shop for the entertainment industry to get scientific information.
Led by the National Academy of Sciences, the program is designed to connect producers, directors, writers and others in need of scientific information for their productions with science, medical and engineering experts. It is endorsed by the DGA, WGA, the Producers Guild of America and Women in Film.
After the announcement, the Nas is sponsoring a symposium hosted by Seth MacFarlane that will bring showbiz professionals together with top scientists. Topics to be covered include climate change, rare and infectious diseases, genomics, artificial intelligence and robotics along with the brain and mind.
Among the showbiz folks expect to join Nas president Ralph Cicerone at the event are Jerry and Janet Zucker, Lawrence Kasden, Kimberly Peirce and Chris Weitz. Former CIA operative Valerie Plame,...
Led by the National Academy of Sciences, the program is designed to connect producers, directors, writers and others in need of scientific information for their productions with science, medical and engineering experts. It is endorsed by the DGA, WGA, the Producers Guild of America and Women in Film.
After the announcement, the Nas is sponsoring a symposium hosted by Seth MacFarlane that will bring showbiz professionals together with top scientists. Topics to be covered include climate change, rare and infectious diseases, genomics, artificial intelligence and robotics along with the brain and mind.
Among the showbiz folks expect to join Nas president Ralph Cicerone at the event are Jerry and Janet Zucker, Lawrence Kasden, Kimberly Peirce and Chris Weitz. Former CIA operative Valerie Plame,...
- 11/18/2008
- by By Erik Pedersen
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Valerie Plume became an unwanted victim thanks to the Bush administration – (if Libby were in Russia - there would be no Libby), but in a bizarre set of circumstances her story has become movie material. Now there is justice after all. Variety reports that Rod Lurie will next direct his script containing the same sort of dynamics as the actual case. The Yari Film Group who are distributing Lurie’s Resurrecting the Champ next month are on board and will finance the project with Marc Frydman producing. The project will get an October production start in order to win the race to the first onscreen.Lurie’s Nothing but the Truth is a drama about a D.C.-based female newspaper reporter who outs a CIA agent and is imprisoned for refusing to reveal her source. Talks are under way for Kate Beckinsale to play the journalist, Matt Dillon the prosecutor,
- 7/19/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
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