Universal Pictures has nabbed Fox production executive Matt Reilly to serve as the studio’s new executive vice president of production development.
Reilly becomes the latest Twentieth Century Fox employee to leave the lot as the 80-plus year old studio prepares to merge with the Walt Disney Company. The announcement of Reilly’s hire was made on Monday by Universal Pictures president Peter Cramer, to whom Reilly will report.
“Matt has experienced success at the studio level developing breakout franchises, while also working on a wide portfolio of titles,” Cramer said in a statement. “His great filmmaker and talent relationships, along with the ability to identify and develop unique projects, will allow him to quickly contribute to building Universal’s diverse slate.”
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Reilly spent the last six years at Fox, most recently shepherding the launch of the popular “Kingsman” franchise,...
Reilly becomes the latest Twentieth Century Fox employee to leave the lot as the 80-plus year old studio prepares to merge with the Walt Disney Company. The announcement of Reilly’s hire was made on Monday by Universal Pictures president Peter Cramer, to whom Reilly will report.
“Matt has experienced success at the studio level developing breakout franchises, while also working on a wide portfolio of titles,” Cramer said in a statement. “His great filmmaker and talent relationships, along with the ability to identify and develop unique projects, will allow him to quickly contribute to building Universal’s diverse slate.”
Also Read: Universal Pictures Makes Key Changes to Production Development Team
Reilly spent the last six years at Fox, most recently shepherding the launch of the popular “Kingsman” franchise,...
- 3/12/2019
- by Trey Williams
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Universal Pictures has hired Matt Reilly as Executive Vice President, Production Development. Reilly becomes the latest film production executive to leave the Fox lot as the studio prepares to be absorbed by Disney.
Reilly spent the past six years at Fox, most recently as Svp. Among the films he oversaw was the launch of Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Secret Service franchise, and he shepherded the sequel Golden Circle and the upcoming prequel that stars Ralph Fiennes and Harris Dickinson. Other films he supervised included Eddie the Eagle and The Predator, and he developed and packaged the Boston Marathon bombing drama Patriots Day. He will report to Universal Pictures president Peter Cramer.
“Matt has experienced success at the studio level developing breakout franchises, while also working on a wide portfolio of titles,” said Cramer. “His great filmmaker and talent relationships, along with the ability to identify and develop unique projects,...
Reilly spent the past six years at Fox, most recently as Svp. Among the films he oversaw was the launch of Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Secret Service franchise, and he shepherded the sequel Golden Circle and the upcoming prequel that stars Ralph Fiennes and Harris Dickinson. Other films he supervised included Eddie the Eagle and The Predator, and he developed and packaged the Boston Marathon bombing drama Patriots Day. He will report to Universal Pictures president Peter Cramer.
“Matt has experienced success at the studio level developing breakout franchises, while also working on a wide portfolio of titles,” said Cramer. “His great filmmaker and talent relationships, along with the ability to identify and develop unique projects,...
- 3/11/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Fox has acquired an untitled sci-fi spec script by Karl Gajdusek, the Stranger Things Ep whose movie credits include Oblivion. Michael Ellenberg will produce in the first film deal for his new Media Res banner. Matt Reilly brought in the project for Fox and will shepherd it. The spec was auctioned under the title Courage, but it won’t be called that. The logline’s being kept under wraps, but it's said to be a character-based sci-fi drama in the vein of Inception…...
- 6/27/2017
- Deadline
Twentieth Century Fox has acquired the life rights to legendary Marvel superhero creator Stan Lee with the intention of developing a ’70s-set action film, TheWrap has learned. The logline and title for the film are being kept under wraps. Senior VP of production Matt Reilly will oversee the project for the studio. Temple Hill producers Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen, who produced the “Twilight” film series, are attached to produce. The duo have “Power Rangers” at Lionsgate up next. Also Read: Spider-Man Creator Stan Lee Says Zendaya Will Be 'Absolutely Wonderful' as Mary Jane Lee is a renowned figure in the comics world,...
- 9/13/2016
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
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Another Earth director Mike Cahill will bring Dash Shaw’s creepy graphic novel Doctors to the big screen.
What if you could call back someone you loved from beyond the grave, if only for a moment? Now what if that was a medical reality?
Dash Shaw’s critically acclaimed graphic novel Doctors will seek the answer to that question on the big screen. Overseen by Fox’s Matt Reilly, it will be adapted by indie-award-winning director Mike Cahill (I, Origins, Another Earth), screenwriter Ben Jacoby (The First Omen) and producer David Goyer (The First Omen), into what we can only imagine will be an eerie, provocative and even darkly comic film.
Doctors probes into the possibility of what could happen if a living person could take the form of memory and delve into the consciousness of someone who had recently died. At least that is what Dr Cho, the brains behind a new reanimating device, is trying to accomplish. Operating out of a Brooklyn basement that is more haunted house than hospital, and using a dusty Frankenstein-ed computer named Charon (after the ferryman of the dead in ancient Greek mythology), Cho’s procedure is supposed to breathe life into the dead — and give some closure to the bereaved — temporarily.
The trade-off is that the trauma this causes for the briefly zombified corpse is fatal all over again. It is a phenomenon shrouded in moral dilemmas. What if the dead would rather not return to flesh and blood just to remember their own demise? What if the dead become disenchanted when their pre-death vision of an afterlife is interrupted by a musty basement and a cold gurney? What’s the real divide between consciousness and unconsciousness, anyway? What if the dead just want to stay…dead?
No release date has been unearthed yet. More news on Doctors as we hear it.
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Another Earth director Mike Cahill will bring Dash Shaw’s creepy graphic novel Doctors to the big screen.
What if you could call back someone you loved from beyond the grave, if only for a moment? Now what if that was a medical reality?
Dash Shaw’s critically acclaimed graphic novel Doctors will seek the answer to that question on the big screen. Overseen by Fox’s Matt Reilly, it will be adapted by indie-award-winning director Mike Cahill (I, Origins, Another Earth), screenwriter Ben Jacoby (The First Omen) and producer David Goyer (The First Omen), into what we can only imagine will be an eerie, provocative and even darkly comic film.
Doctors probes into the possibility of what could happen if a living person could take the form of memory and delve into the consciousness of someone who had recently died. At least that is what Dr Cho, the brains behind a new reanimating device, is trying to accomplish. Operating out of a Brooklyn basement that is more haunted house than hospital, and using a dusty Frankenstein-ed computer named Charon (after the ferryman of the dead in ancient Greek mythology), Cho’s procedure is supposed to breathe life into the dead — and give some closure to the bereaved — temporarily.
The trade-off is that the trauma this causes for the briefly zombified corpse is fatal all over again. It is a phenomenon shrouded in moral dilemmas. What if the dead would rather not return to flesh and blood just to remember their own demise? What if the dead become disenchanted when their pre-death vision of an afterlife is interrupted by a musty basement and a cold gurney? What’s the real divide between consciousness and unconsciousness, anyway? What if the dead just want to stay…dead?
No release date has been unearthed yet. More news on Doctors as we hear it.
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- 6/15/2016
- Den of Geek
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Brad Peyton will be directing Malignant Man, for producer James Wan...
San Andreas director Brad Peyton will be taking on disasters of a more supernatural kind for his new project. He'll be teaming up with James Wan to co-direct Malignant Man, the Boom! Studios graphic novel about a cancer-patient-turned-mutant-hero which Wan co-wrote and Fox is adapting to film.
Malignant Man is the story of terminal cancer patient Alex Gates, who believes that a malignant tumor is gnawing away at what days he has left until he finds out the even more ghastly truth. What he thought was a tumor is actually an alien parasite that has been unknowingly giving Gates a transfusion of paranormal powers.
Not unlike like the genetically engineered spiders that bite Peter Parker and turn him into a web-slinging superhuman, the alien bloodsucker mutates Gates into something of a hybrid hero with a new lease on life. He is assigned to fight an evil army creeping under the skin of society, as he slowly unravels secrets about his path that lead to the truth about what seems to be a symbiotic connection between him and the parasite.
Wan, who has just come off the second installments of The Conjuring and Insidious, will be producing Malignant Man under his Atomic Monster label. Executive producing with Wan are Peyton and his partner Jeff Fierson, with Boom! Studios’ Adam Yoelin, Stephen Christy and Ross Richie co-producing and Matt Reilly and Ryan Jones overseeing for Fox.
Zak Olkewicz drafted the screenplay. We wait to see just where the film will land on Peyton's busy slate, given that he's also got Rampage, Journey 3 and San Andreas 2 in various stages of development.
Meanwhile, Boom! has been revving up several of its smash graphic novels to take the leap from printed page to big screen. Irredeemable, has just snagged director Adam McKay, and The Empty Man is currently in preproduction.
No release date for Malignant Man has been released yet since it is still in development, but the prognosis looks positive.
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Brad Peyton will be directing Malignant Man, for producer James Wan...
San Andreas director Brad Peyton will be taking on disasters of a more supernatural kind for his new project. He'll be teaming up with James Wan to co-direct Malignant Man, the Boom! Studios graphic novel about a cancer-patient-turned-mutant-hero which Wan co-wrote and Fox is adapting to film.
Malignant Man is the story of terminal cancer patient Alex Gates, who believes that a malignant tumor is gnawing away at what days he has left until he finds out the even more ghastly truth. What he thought was a tumor is actually an alien parasite that has been unknowingly giving Gates a transfusion of paranormal powers.
Not unlike like the genetically engineered spiders that bite Peter Parker and turn him into a web-slinging superhuman, the alien bloodsucker mutates Gates into something of a hybrid hero with a new lease on life. He is assigned to fight an evil army creeping under the skin of society, as he slowly unravels secrets about his path that lead to the truth about what seems to be a symbiotic connection between him and the parasite.
Wan, who has just come off the second installments of The Conjuring and Insidious, will be producing Malignant Man under his Atomic Monster label. Executive producing with Wan are Peyton and his partner Jeff Fierson, with Boom! Studios’ Adam Yoelin, Stephen Christy and Ross Richie co-producing and Matt Reilly and Ryan Jones overseeing for Fox.
Zak Olkewicz drafted the screenplay. We wait to see just where the film will land on Peyton's busy slate, given that he's also got Rampage, Journey 3 and San Andreas 2 in various stages of development.
Meanwhile, Boom! has been revving up several of its smash graphic novels to take the leap from printed page to big screen. Irredeemable, has just snagged director Adam McKay, and The Empty Man is currently in preproduction.
No release date for Malignant Man has been released yet since it is still in development, but the prognosis looks positive.
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- 6/13/2016
- Den of Geek
20th Century Fox has rounded out its creative team with the hire of Matt Reilly. Reilly, who served as an executive at Warners before acting as vp production at Rough House Pictures, has joined 20th as vp production and already is ensconced in the Century City fortress. Story: The Politics of the Agency Party The move caps a string of recent hires, including Mark Roybal, who came from Indian Paintbrush in May, as well as Mike Ireland, formerly of Appian Way, and ex-DreamWorks exec Kira Goldberg. Daria Cercek is another new exec, having been promoted internally earlier this summer. Reilly and
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- 9/18/2013
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Vini Reilly has thanked fans after their donations helped him pay off £1,200 of debt. The Durutti Column guitarist had fallen into financial difficulties after suffering a series of strokes that affected his ability to play guitar. Vini's nephew Matt Reilly posted a message on Facebook and the official Durutti Column website yesterday (January 3) asking fans for assistance. Within hours, fans had donated the necessary sum and Matt posted an update thanking fans and saying that no further donations were required. "I've just spoken to Vini and told him how much has been donated by fans and music lovers worldwide - he's ecstatic," Matt said. "He's explained that going forward he should be able to afford to pay his rent, but the debt relates to the period after he had his three strokes but before he was assessed (more)...
- 1/4/2013
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Tribeca Film acquired all North American rights to the Rick Alverson-directed The Comedy, a film that bowed at 2012 Sundance Film Festival and also played SXSW. It will be released in October. Jagjaguwar produced in conjunction with Greyshack Films and Larry Fessenden’s Glass Eye Pix, along with Mike S. Ryan and Brent Kunkle producing. Rough House Pictures — the production company of Danny McBride, David Gordon Green, Jody Hill, and Matt Reilly — attached themselves to the film during Sundance. Tribeca will do a select theatrical release day-and-date with on-demand platforms including video-on-demand offerings iTunes, Amazon Watch Instantly, Vudu, Xbox and Samsung Media Hub. On the cusp of inheriting his father’s estate, Swanson (Tim Heidecker) is a man with unlimited options. An aging hipster in Brooklyn, he spends his days bored and in aimless recreation with like-minded friends and they begin testing the limits of acceptable behavior. “Tim Heidecker’s...
- 5/14/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
FX is continuing its push into animation. The male-skewing cable network, which recently renewed Archer for a fourth season, is developing a half-hour animated comedy project from the co-creator of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively. Aqua Teen's Matt Maiellaro and newcomer Grant Dekernion are penning the untitled project, which would revolve around a man recently released from prison. Dekernion, a friend of Danny McBride, took the idea to the Eastbound and Down star and his production company, Rough House. The shingle's Matt Reilly then connected the duo with Maiellaro to flush out
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- 2/29/2012
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Earlier this year, during an interview with David Gordon Green, we asked about his Rough House Pictures production shingle, the company he formed with filmmaking pals Jody Hill, Danny McBride and Matt Reilly. He told us it's a place where the "strange ideas and concepts" they cook up or come across have a home to grow and develop. And it looks like those plans are starting to bear some fruit, particularly on television. Last spring, MTV picked up the animated series "Good Vibes" and this summer Rough House signed a one-year development deal with 20th Century Fox. Well, they…...
- 8/10/2011
- The Playlist
Rough House Pictures, home to Danny McBride and "Pineapple Express" hemler David Gordon Green, has inked a one-year deal with 20th Century Fox Television to develop both live-action and animated series. McBride and Gordon Green run Rough House with Jody Hill, McBride's collabaroator on HBO's "Eastbound and Down," and Matt Reilly, an executive. This is the first network TV deal for the company, which has also made films like 2011's "Your Highness." With "Eastbound" filming its third and final season, Rough House has expanded in the TV world. The group is producing...
- 8/1/2011
- by Lucas Shaw
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Scottish novelist Irvine Welsh, whose best-known novel Trainspotting was made into an as-well-known movie directed by Danny Boyle, will write a screen adaptation himself, this time for the small screen. Welsh has been tapped to write a script for a drama series based on the Ian Palmer-directed documentary Knuckle, which is in development at HBO. Described as Fight Club meets Sons of Anarchy, the docu, which was filmed over 12 years, is about two Irish families who settle a longstanding dispute by periodically engaging in bare-knuckle bouts, beating each other to bloody pulps, and focuses on two brothers, James Quinn and Michael McDonagh. The film premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival, where its remake rights sparked interest from several parties. HBO ultimately landed the project, with Danny McBride, Jody Hill and David Gordon Green's Rough House Pictures, which produces HBO's comedy Eastbound & Down, attached to produce.
- 6/10/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: Comedy Central is finalizing a deal for a pilot order to Black Jack. The single-camera comedy, directed and exec produced by Pineapple Express helmer David Gordon Green, hails from Rough House, Green's production company with Danny McBride, Jody Hill and Matt Reilly. Black Jack, written by Michael Starrbury, centers on Black Jack who, after 20 years as the most kick-ass special ops agent the Us government has had on its payroll, finally goes too far and is de-commissioned. He's sent home to begin the most treacherous mission he's ever faced -- normal life. The order is expected to be cast-contingent, with the pilot going to production if the network finds the right actor for the lead. Green, Starrbury, McBride, Hill and Reilly, all repped by CAA, are exec producing. Green most recently created the upcoming MTV animated series Good Vibes and helmed the feature comedy Your Highness starring McBride, Natalie Portman,...
- 3/24/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
HBO is currently in negotiations to remake the documentary Knuckle directed by Ian Palmer which is at Sundance this year. The doc is about two Irish families that settle a longstanding dispute by periodically engaging in bare knuckle bouts. Content International bought international rights at the start of the festival so that leaves domestic rights up for grabs.
Danny McBride, Jody Hill and David Gordon Green are attached with their Rough House Pictures (Eastbound & Down) banner. Deadline is reporting that HBO is planning to turn the concept into a TV series. The rights have been coveted by reps of Gerard Butler, Robert Downey Jr., and Vin Diesel, but Rough House's Matt Reilly won the negotiations.
The film debuted at Sundance last Friday and since then there has been plenty of interest. Knuckle was produced by Rise Films' Teddy Leifer. The film was filmed over the course of 12 years and focuses on two brothers,...
Danny McBride, Jody Hill and David Gordon Green are attached with their Rough House Pictures (Eastbound & Down) banner. Deadline is reporting that HBO is planning to turn the concept into a TV series. The rights have been coveted by reps of Gerard Butler, Robert Downey Jr., and Vin Diesel, but Rough House's Matt Reilly won the negotiations.
The film debuted at Sundance last Friday and since then there has been plenty of interest. Knuckle was produced by Rise Films' Teddy Leifer. The film was filmed over the course of 12 years and focuses on two brothers,...
- 1/25/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
Exclusive: HBO is closing a remake rights deal for Knuckle, the Ian Palmer-directed documentary at Sundance about two Irish families that settle a longstanding dispute by periodically engaging in bare knuckle bouts. Rough House Pictures partners Danny McBride, Jody Hill and David Gordon Green are attached, and HBO will turn the concept into a TV series, I hear. Numerous parties circled -- word is they included companies of Gerard Butler, Robert Downey Jr., and Vin Diesel, but Rough House's Matt Reilly came to Sundance and won by knockout. Rough House produces Eastbound & Down at HBO. For two weeks, interest has been high for the remake rights of a film that debuted at Sundance last Friday. After bootlegs of an unfinished version began making the rounds, CAA pressed copies for the interested suitors. In the documentary that was produced by Rise Films' Teddy Leifer, the fighters square off...
- 1/25/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
I love seeing Danny McBride break out as a legit talent -- The Foot Fist Way, Tropic Thunder and Pineapple Express got him in front of audiences, but the HBO show Eastbound and Down really made his name. Now, as the second season of that show prepares to air, there's word that McBride will get to star in Bullies, based on his own story idea. The film follows "two brothers who finally get a comeuppance after bullying people their whole lives." Curious to hear who'll co-star with McBride (the plot sounds like it could so easily be a Will Ferrell / John C. Reilly affair) but we do know that Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul will write, and McBride will produce with David Gordon Green, Jody Hill and Matt Reilly. [Deadline] After the break, loads more casting info, including new work (maybe) for Sam Worthington, Nicole Kidman, Nicolas Cage and Clive Owen.
- 6/18/2010
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
Mandate Pictures has picked up the comedy spec "Bullies" as a vehicle for Danny McBride ("Tropic Thunder," "Land of the Lost") reports the trades.
Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul ("Yes Man") penned the story of two brothers who have bullied people their whole lives and finally get what is coming to them.
McBride, David Gordon Green, Jody Hill and Matt Reilly will produce through their Rough House production label.
Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul ("Yes Man") penned the story of two brothers who have bullied people their whole lives and finally get what is coming to them.
McBride, David Gordon Green, Jody Hill and Matt Reilly will produce through their Rough House production label.
- 6/17/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Mandate Pictures has picked up "Bullies" which is an original idea from Danny McBride Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul ("Yes Man") will write the screenplay for. McBride, David Gordon Green, Jody Hill and Matt Reilly are to produce via their Rough House company which has a first-look deal over at Mandate. The story tells of two brothers who have bullied people all their lives and finally, get a taste of their own medicine. Nathan Kahane of Mandate will serve as an executive producer on the film...
- 6/17/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Mandate Pictures is banking on the notion that HBO's East Bound and Down star Danny McBride will make a convincing bully. Mandate has made a deal for Bullies, a comedy based on an original idea by McBride about two brothers who finally get a comeuppance after bullying people their whole lives. Yes Man scribes Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul will write the script. McBride will produce with his Rough House Pictures partners David Gordon Green, Jody Hill and Matt Reilly. Mandate's Nathan Kahane will be executive producer. McBride most recently wrapped the Universal comedy Your Highness.
- 6/16/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Mandate Pictures has just sent along the following press release regarding the purchase of the original comedy idea, Bullies : Mandate Pictures announced today that the company has acquired "Bullies", an original idea from Danny McBride ("Tropic Thunder", "Pineapple Express") to be written by Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul ("Yes Man") and produced by Rough House Pictures. The comedy about two brothers who have bullied people their whole life and finally get what is coming to them will be produced by Rough House principals Danny McBride, David Gordon Green, Jody Hill and Matt Reilly. Mandate President Nathan Kahane will executive produce and Lawrence Grey will oversee the project for Mandate.
- 6/16/2010
- Comingsoon.net
Mandate Pictures has picked up an untitled comedy pitch based on an idea by Aziz Ansari and Matt Hubbard ("30 Rock" writer) . Ansari and Danny McBride will star. These two are also teaming on the comedy "30 Minutes or Less" which starts filming in July. Rough House shingle is producing and Harris Wittels who worked with Ansari on "Parks & Recreation," has been enlisted to write the screenplay. There are no plot details available as yet. McBride will also produce alongside Rough House' David Gordon Green, Jody Hill and Matt Reilly. Aziz Ansari's credits include the upcoming "Get Him to the Greek" (See our Free screening of the film in certain areas!)...
- 5/11/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
It’s hard to say that these two are working on “another” movie together when the first one hasn’t even been made yet, but apparently Danny McBride wants to bring some of that chemistry to Rough House Pictures, the production group he started along with David Gordon Green, Jody Hill, and Matt Reilly.
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- 5/10/2010
- by Jon Davis
- GordonandtheWhale
In a real cross-pollination of series TV and film, Mandate Pictures has acquired an untitled comedy pitch from Aziz Ansari and 30 Rock writer Matt Hubbard, that Harris Wittels will write as a star vehicle for Ansari and Danny McBride. Wittels is a writer on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation, which stars Ansari, and McBride jumps between features and East Bound and Down, the HBO sitcom that he created with Jody Hill. Rough House, the production shingle that McBride runs with Hill, David Gordon Green and Matt Reilly, will produce. Logline's under wraps, and it's the second teaming of [...]...
- 5/10/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
In a real cross-pollination of series TV and film, Mandate Pictures has acquired an untitled comedy pitch from Aziz Ansari and 30 Rock writer Matt Hubbard, that Harris Wittels will write as a star vehicle for Ansari and Danny McBride. Wittels is a writer on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation, which stars Ansari, and McBride jumps between features and East Bound and Down, the HBO sitcom that he created with Jody Hill. Rough House, the production shingle that McBride runs with Hill, David Gordon Green and Matt Reilly, will produce. Logline's under wraps, and it's the second teaming of [...]...
- 5/10/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline Hollywood
Mandate Pictures has picked up an untitled comedy feature pitch based on an idea by comedian Aziz Ansari and "30 Rock" television scribe Matt Hubbard. Ansari is attached to star in the project alongside comic actor Danny McBride.
Harris Wittels, who writes for Ansari's NBC tv series "Parks and Recreation," will pen the feature script.
McBride is also producing the project alongside David Gordon Green, Jody Hill and Matt Reilly through their Rough House banner. The production company has a first-look deal with Mandate.
Ansari and Mandate's Nathan Kahane will executive produce. Hubbard will co-produce. Lawrence Grey will oversee the project for Mandate.
The project, whose plotline is being kept under wraps, reunites McBride and Ansari, both of whom starred in Hill's "Observe and Report" last year. The duo are about to embark on another project together, Columbia Pictures' "30 Minutes or Less," currently in pre-production.
Rising comic star Ansari was...
Harris Wittels, who writes for Ansari's NBC tv series "Parks and Recreation," will pen the feature script.
McBride is also producing the project alongside David Gordon Green, Jody Hill and Matt Reilly through their Rough House banner. The production company has a first-look deal with Mandate.
Ansari and Mandate's Nathan Kahane will executive produce. Hubbard will co-produce. Lawrence Grey will oversee the project for Mandate.
The project, whose plotline is being kept under wraps, reunites McBride and Ansari, both of whom starred in Hill's "Observe and Report" last year. The duo are about to embark on another project together, Columbia Pictures' "30 Minutes or Less," currently in pre-production.
Rising comic star Ansari was...
- 5/10/2010
- by By Zorianna Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Mandate Pictures announced today that the company has acquired an untitled comedy pitch based on an idea by Aziz Ansari and Emmy Award-winning "30 Rock" writer Matt Hubbard, to be produced by Rough House Pictures. The feature length comedy will be written by Harris Wittels ("Parks and Recreation"). Ansari ( Funny People , I Love You, Man ) and Danny McBride ( Up in the Air , Pineapple Express ) are attached to star in the untitled comedy. Principals Danny McBride, David Gordon Green, Jody Hill and Matt Reilly will produce through their Rough House banner. Aziz Ansari and Mandate President Nathan Kahane will executive produce. Matt Hubbard will serve as a co-producer. Lawrence Grey will oversee the project for Mandate. Details of the plot are being kept under...
- 5/10/2010
- Comingsoon.net
2010 MTV Movie Awards host books his next gig alongside the 'Eastbound & Down' star.
By Josh Wigler
Aziz Ansari
Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images
Aziz Ansari will bring his comedy chops to the small screen next month as the host of the 2010 MTV Movie Awards, but the funnyman is already making plans for his next big-screen endeavor.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Mandate Pictures has picked up a pitch for an untitled comedy from Ansari and "30 Rock" writer Matt Hubbard. The MTV Movie Awards host is attached to star in the feature alongside "Eastbound & Down" comedian Danny McBride.
McBride will produce the project alongside David Gordon Green, Jody Hill and Matt Reilly through their Rough House banner. Ansari and Mandate's Nathan Kahane are executive-producing the movie alongside co-producer Hubbard, while Harris Wittel, a writer on Ansari's NBC comedy series "Parks and Recreation," is set to write the screenplay.
While Ansari and...
By Josh Wigler
Aziz Ansari
Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images
Aziz Ansari will bring his comedy chops to the small screen next month as the host of the 2010 MTV Movie Awards, but the funnyman is already making plans for his next big-screen endeavor.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Mandate Pictures has picked up a pitch for an untitled comedy from Ansari and "30 Rock" writer Matt Hubbard. The MTV Movie Awards host is attached to star in the feature alongside "Eastbound & Down" comedian Danny McBride.
McBride will produce the project alongside David Gordon Green, Jody Hill and Matt Reilly through their Rough House banner. Ansari and Mandate's Nathan Kahane are executive-producing the movie alongside co-producer Hubbard, while Harris Wittel, a writer on Ansari's NBC comedy series "Parks and Recreation," is set to write the screenplay.
While Ansari and...
- 5/10/2010
- MTV Movie News
2010 MTV Movie Awards host books his next gig alongside the 'Eastbound & Down' star.
By Josh Wigler
Aziz Ansari
Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images
Aziz Ansari will bring his comedy chops to the small screen next month as the host of the 2010 MTV Movie Awards, but the funnyman is already making plans for his next big-screen endeavor.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Mandate Pictures has picked up a pitch for an untitled comedy from Ansari and "30 Rock" writer Matt Hubbard. The MTV Movie Awards host is attached to star in the feature alongside "Eastbound & Down" comedian Danny McBride.
McBride will produce the project alongside David Gordon Green, Jody Hill and Matt Reilly through their Rough House banner. Ansari and Mandate's Nathan Kahane are executive-producing the movie alongside co-producer Hubbard, while Harris Wittel, a writer on Ansari's NBC comedy series "Parks and Recreation," is set to write the screenplay.
While Ansari and...
By Josh Wigler
Aziz Ansari
Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images
Aziz Ansari will bring his comedy chops to the small screen next month as the host of the 2010 MTV Movie Awards, but the funnyman is already making plans for his next big-screen endeavor.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Mandate Pictures has picked up a pitch for an untitled comedy from Ansari and "30 Rock" writer Matt Hubbard. The MTV Movie Awards host is attached to star in the feature alongside "Eastbound & Down" comedian Danny McBride.
McBride will produce the project alongside David Gordon Green, Jody Hill and Matt Reilly through their Rough House banner. Ansari and Mandate's Nathan Kahane are executive-producing the movie alongside co-producer Hubbard, while Harris Wittel, a writer on Ansari's NBC comedy series "Parks and Recreation," is set to write the screenplay.
While Ansari and...
- 5/10/2010
- MTV Music News
Kids these days, eh? When they’re not Tweeting about the radical tunes they downloaded from the Magical Interwebz, they’re opening the Facebooks and playing Mafia Farm or some such thing. Or if they’re 18-year-old Colton Harris-Moore, they’re stealing boats, cars and even planes, evading local police, the FBI and Homeland Security. So what better way to discourage copycats by turning him into a cinematic hero? 20th Century Fox couldn’t agree more, and has optioned the film rights to Bob Friel’s book idea Taking Flight: The Hunt For A Young Outlaw.Production company Rough House Pictures, run by Danny McBride, David Gordon Green, Jody Hill and Matt Reilly, is spearheading the development of the film with Green considering it as a possible directing job.Friel profiled Harris-Moore for a magazine article, tracking the story of the wayward teen as he waged a one-man crime spree in the Us,...
- 4/13/2010
- EmpireOnline
Rough House, the Mandate Pictures-based company set up by Jody Hill, Danny McBride and David Gordon Green, has picked up its first project, the action-comedy "L.A.P.I." from scribes Michael Diliberti and Matthew Sullivan.
Hill is attached to direct, and McBride is attached to star. Hill, McBride, Green and Rough House head of production Matt Reilly will produce. The project falls in line with the company's strategy of making high-concept comedies with a specific brand of humor, exemplified by titles such as "Eastbound & Down," "The Foot Fist Way" and "Observe and Report."
While details of the plot are being kept under wraps, it is known McBride starring as a beaten down, hardboiled P.I. in the action-comedy.
Mandate's Nathan Kahane is exec producing.
Hill's most recent movie was "Observe and Report." McBride most appeared in "Up in the Air." Both are repped by CAA.
Diliberti and Sullivan,...
Hill is attached to direct, and McBride is attached to star. Hill, McBride, Green and Rough House head of production Matt Reilly will produce. The project falls in line with the company's strategy of making high-concept comedies with a specific brand of humor, exemplified by titles such as "Eastbound & Down," "The Foot Fist Way" and "Observe and Report."
While details of the plot are being kept under wraps, it is known McBride starring as a beaten down, hardboiled P.I. in the action-comedy.
Mandate's Nathan Kahane is exec producing.
Hill's most recent movie was "Observe and Report." McBride most appeared in "Up in the Air." Both are repped by CAA.
Diliberti and Sullivan,...
- 2/4/2010
- by By Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Rough House Pictures head of production Matt Reilly announced today that the company has acquired L.A.P.I. , an action-comedy pitch from writers Michael Diliberti and Matthew Sullivan (upcoming Brewster's Millions ), through Rough House's deal with Mandate Pictures. Rough House principal Jody Hill ( Observe and Report ) is attached to direct and Danny McBride ( Up in the Air , Tropic Thunder ) is attached to star. David Gordon Green ( Pineapple Express ), Hill, McBride and Reilly will produce. Mandate President Nathan Kahane will executive produce. Details of the plot are being kept under wraps, apart from McBride starring as a beaten down, hard boiled P.I. in the action-comedy. L.A.P.I. is the first project to be developed under the new label formed by David Gordon Green, Jody...
- 2/4/2010
- Comingsoon.net
Mandate Pictures have signed a two-year first-look deal with David Gordon Green, Jody Hill and Danny McBride to produce high concept comedies with their brand of humor under a new label - Rough House Pictures. The trio have been making movies together since college, where they all attended the North Carolina School of the Arts. Green says the aim is to produce a slate of comedy projects that are "a little left of center." Read the full press release after the jump. David Gordon Green, Jody Hill And Danny McBride Team Up With Mandate Pictures To Launch Rough House Pictures Matt Reilly to Head Production of New Comedy Label and will be a Participant in the Business Los Angeles (December 10, 2009) – Mandate Pictures announced today it has signed a two-year first-look deal with David Gordon Green, Jody Hill and Danny McBride to produce high concept comedies with their brand of humor.
- 12/11/2009
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
By Variety
Making a move into comedy, Mandate Pictures has set up Rough House Pictures with Danny McBride, "Pineapple Express" director David Gordon Green, Jody Hill and Matt Reilly, who's departing from Warner Bros.
Mandate has a two-year first-look with Rough House to produce high-concept comedies.
While at WB, Reilly collaborated on "Observe and Report" with McBride and Hill.
Read more in Variety.
Making a move into comedy, Mandate Pictures has set up Rough House Pictures with Danny McBride, "Pineapple Express" director David Gordon Green, Jody Hill and Matt Reilly, who's departing from Warner Bros.
Mandate has a two-year first-look with Rough House to produce high-concept comedies.
While at WB, Reilly collaborated on "Observe and Report" with McBride and Hill.
Read more in Variety.
- 12/10/2009
- by Lisa Horowitz
- The Wrap
Danny McBride, directors David Gordon Green and Jody Hill and Warner exec Matt Reilly have formed comedy production house Rough House, setting up shop at Mandate Pictures.
The company, which has inked a two-year first-look deal with Mandate, has a focus to produce high-concept comedies.
McBride, Green and Hill went to the North Carolina School of the Arts together and have worked on each other’s movies and TV shows.
Hill and McBride created HBO’s “Eastbound & Down” (with Ben Best), which Green directed as did Hill. Green directed “Pineapple Express,” which saw McBride appear in the Seth Rogen-James Franco comedy.
Hill co-wrote and directed “The Foot Fist Way,” which starred McBride, and the two teamed up again for “Observe and Report,” the Seth Rogen-Anna Faris comedy that was made by Warners.
It was while working with Warners that Hill and McBride met vp production Reilly,...
The company, which has inked a two-year first-look deal with Mandate, has a focus to produce high-concept comedies.
McBride, Green and Hill went to the North Carolina School of the Arts together and have worked on each other’s movies and TV shows.
Hill and McBride created HBO’s “Eastbound & Down” (with Ben Best), which Green directed as did Hill. Green directed “Pineapple Express,” which saw McBride appear in the Seth Rogen-James Franco comedy.
Hill co-wrote and directed “The Foot Fist Way,” which starred McBride, and the two teamed up again for “Observe and Report,” the Seth Rogen-Anna Faris comedy that was made by Warners.
It was while working with Warners that Hill and McBride met vp production Reilly,...
- 12/10/2009
- by By Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Warner Bros. Pictures has picked up Invaders, a spec script from scribe Jayson Rothwell. Basil Iwanyk of Thunder Road is producing along with Mark Williams and Michael Pierce of Pierce/Williams Entertainment.
The story centers on a thief who is forced by a rogue government agent to retrieve a video of the U.S. president having sex with the wife of an Arab sheik.
Lynn Harris and Matt Reilly are the executives.
Rothwell's deal also includes a blind script option. The scribe's horror script Kept is in preproduction at Twisted Pictures. Rothwell is repped by Paradigm as well as Pierce/Williams' management division, Zero Gravity. His attorney is Harris Hartman.
Pierce/Williams produced The Cooler and is behind the Demi Moore-Michael Caine starrer Flawless, which is seeking a distributor.
Iwanyk's Warner-based Thunder Road last produced We Are Marshall.
The story centers on a thief who is forced by a rogue government agent to retrieve a video of the U.S. president having sex with the wife of an Arab sheik.
Lynn Harris and Matt Reilly are the executives.
Rothwell's deal also includes a blind script option. The scribe's horror script Kept is in preproduction at Twisted Pictures. Rothwell is repped by Paradigm as well as Pierce/Williams' management division, Zero Gravity. His attorney is Harris Hartman.
Pierce/Williams produced The Cooler and is behind the Demi Moore-Michael Caine starrer Flawless, which is seeking a distributor.
Iwanyk's Warner-based Thunder Road last produced We Are Marshall.
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