While it is currently enjoying the success of shows such as the long-running Suits, the second-season renewal Sirens, and the brand new Dig, USA Network has now announced its 2015/2015 development slate, and it contains nine new scripted dramas to get excited about.
Backed by big names – including Rob Reiner, Catherine Hardwicke, Len Wiseman, Barry Sonnenfeld and Charlize Theron – these fledgling projects indicate a major push forward in original programming for the channel, and a major shift into television for high profile filmmakers.
Paradise Pictures: From the team that delivered Suits (Aaron Korsh, Rick Muirragui), this period drama is set in 1940s Hollywood and follows the fortunes of those trying to make it to the top of the entertainment industry tree, against a backdrop of blacklists, the rise of television, and the fall of studio monopolies.
Starchitects: An episodic drama exploring the workplace pressures at a top-level Los Angeles architecture firm.
Backed by big names – including Rob Reiner, Catherine Hardwicke, Len Wiseman, Barry Sonnenfeld and Charlize Theron – these fledgling projects indicate a major push forward in original programming for the channel, and a major shift into television for high profile filmmakers.
Paradise Pictures: From the team that delivered Suits (Aaron Korsh, Rick Muirragui), this period drama is set in 1940s Hollywood and follows the fortunes of those trying to make it to the top of the entertainment industry tree, against a backdrop of blacklists, the rise of television, and the fall of studio monopolies.
Starchitects: An episodic drama exploring the workplace pressures at a top-level Los Angeles architecture firm.
- 4/8/2015
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
The man who created Supernatural has turned his attention to a superhero.
Eric Kripke’s Amped, a drama that follows a neurotic man who takes a pill and becomes incredibly strong and powerful, is one of several projects on USA Network‘s 2015-2016 development slate.
Kripke will pen both the Vertigo comic book on which Amped is based and the series itself, which he’ll also executive-produce.
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Other potential series the cable channel announced Tuesday include:
* The Tap, a 1969-set spy thriller set at Yale University,...
Eric Kripke’s Amped, a drama that follows a neurotic man who takes a pill and becomes incredibly strong and powerful, is one of several projects on USA Network‘s 2015-2016 development slate.
Kripke will pen both the Vertigo comic book on which Amped is based and the series itself, which he’ll also executive-produce.
Related Cable Renewal Scorecard: What’s Coming Back? What’s Getting Cancelled? What’s on the Bubble?
Other potential series the cable channel announced Tuesday include:
* The Tap, a 1969-set spy thriller set at Yale University,...
- 4/7/2015
- TVLine.com
ABC is going to the wolves. The network is teaming with The Big C's Jenny Bicks to adapt Karen Russell's best-selling book St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The drama centers on mysterious and attractive twins Claudette and Felix, 16, who, when they show up at the elite St. Lucy's boarding school, change the school and the tiny town of Green Hills, Maine, in ways no one could have imagined. The Walking Dead's Channing Powell will pen the script with Bicks on board to supervise. John Jacobs will also exec produce
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- 10/24/2014
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sometimes it's nice to shelve a thick novel in favor of something a little bit shorter. Story collections are making a big comeback, and this week People staffers can't get enough of them. From the darkly funny dystopian tales of Sam Lipsyte to the latest from critical darling Alice Munro, check out what we're reading. Then let us know what books you can't put down. Alex Apatoff, Style News Editor Her pick: Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell I'm not going to lie to you: this collection is weird. But that's part of why it's so wonderful. No...
- 4/4/2013
- PEOPLE.com
On Tuesday, HBO made two announcements in the realm of acquisitions. The network said it would be producing "True Detective," a crime series based on the hunt for a serial killer in Louisiana starring Matthew McConnaughey and Woody Harrelson. It also confirmed reports it was passing on the pilot for Jonathan Franzen and Noah Baumbach's adaptation of Franzen's novel "The Corrections," which starred Ewan McGregor and Maggie Gyllenhaal and was being produced by Scott Rudin.
It's tempting to interpret the twin announcements as evidence of HBO's broader plans. A sign, perhaps, that the smash success of its two highest-performing shows, "True Blood" and "Game of Thrones," has convinced the network that the path to success is the lurid, fantastical one favored by hormonal young men.
Time will tell. But for now, there's no reason to ring the alarm bells, cancel your subscriptions and sign up for Showtime in anticipation...
It's tempting to interpret the twin announcements as evidence of HBO's broader plans. A sign, perhaps, that the smash success of its two highest-performing shows, "True Blood" and "Game of Thrones," has convinced the network that the path to success is the lurid, fantastical one favored by hormonal young men.
Time will tell. But for now, there's no reason to ring the alarm bells, cancel your subscriptions and sign up for Showtime in anticipation...
- 5/2/2012
- by Joe Satran
- Huffington Post
On Tuesday, HBO made two announcements in the realm of acquisitions. The network said it would be producing "True Detective," a crime series based on the hunt for a serial killer in Louisiana starring Matthew McConnaughey and Woody Harrelson. It also confirmed reports it was passing on the pilot for Jonathan Franzen and Noah Baumbach's adaptation of Franzen's novel "The Corrections," which starred Ewan McGregor and Maggie Gyllenhaal and was being produced by Scott Rudin.
It's tempting to interpret the twin announcements as evidence of HBO's broader plans. A sign, perhaps, that the smash success of its two highest-performing shows, "True Blood" and "Game of Thrones," has convinced the network that the path to success is the lurid, fantastical one favored by hormonal young men.
Time will tell. But for now, there's no reason to ring the alarm bells, cancel your subscriptions and sign up for Showtime in anticipation...
It's tempting to interpret the twin announcements as evidence of HBO's broader plans. A sign, perhaps, that the smash success of its two highest-performing shows, "True Blood" and "Game of Thrones," has convinced the network that the path to success is the lurid, fantastical one favored by hormonal young men.
Time will tell. But for now, there's no reason to ring the alarm bells, cancel your subscriptions and sign up for Showtime in anticipation...
- 5/2/2012
- by Joe Satran
- Aol TV.
On Monday, Columbia University announced the 2012 Pulitzer Prize winners, but two categories was notably absent from the list. No winner was awarded for the editorial writing category, but more notably, there was no prize for fiction -- previously won by such canonical works as "The Grapes of Wrath" and "To Kill a Mockingbird."
It's the first time since 1977 that the judges have declined to name a winner in this category. Certainly, there has been outrage and surprise expressed on via social media, with some tweeters suggesting that the lack of an award points to a decline in the quality of published works.
The jurors for the prize were Maureen Corrigan, Michael Cunningham, and Susan Larson. According to The Daily Beast, the finalists they chose in the fiction category were the unfinished "The Pale King," a posthumous work by David Foster Wallace, Karen Russell's "Swamplandia!", and the Denis Johnson novella "Train Dreams.
It's the first time since 1977 that the judges have declined to name a winner in this category. Certainly, there has been outrage and surprise expressed on via social media, with some tweeters suggesting that the lack of an award points to a decline in the quality of published works.
The jurors for the prize were Maureen Corrigan, Michael Cunningham, and Susan Larson. According to The Daily Beast, the finalists they chose in the fiction category were the unfinished "The Pale King," a posthumous work by David Foster Wallace, Karen Russell's "Swamplandia!", and the Denis Johnson novella "Train Dreams.
- 4/17/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Carlos Santana doesn't let his Grammys inside his house: "I look around here in my office with the Grammys and other trophies. I'm grateful -- but grateful they're not at my house. There is nothing at my house related to my career. That's a must, that I see nothing to remind me of the personality that I am. That hurt Jimi Hendrix, Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye. You have know when to get off the stage. I like being a person and not always a persona. Feeding a persona is exhausting and you end up smelling funny [laughs]." Spinner The Pulitzer Prizes do not choose a fiction winner for the first time in 35 years: "The jurors chose three finalists — 'Train Dreams' by Denis Johnson, 'Swamplandia!' by Karen Russell, and 'The Pale King' by David Foster Wallace — and it was up to the Pulitzer Board to make the final decision. To be fair to the Board,...
- 4/17/2012
- Gold Derby
The Pulitzer Prize Board didn’t select a winner in the Fiction category, for the first time since 1977. While the category jury chose three finalists — “Train Dreams” by Denis Johnson, “Swamplandia!” by Karen Russell and “The Pale King” by the late David Foster Wallace — the board didn’t reach a majority vote on any of the books, and therefore no winner was selected.
Like many others, we at Speakeasy feel the need to fill the gap. After all, there were...
Like many others, we at Speakeasy feel the need to fill the gap. After all, there were...
- 4/17/2012
- by Barbara Chai
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Out of the three nominees for this year's Pulitzer Prize for Fiction — David Foster Wallace's The Pale King, Karen Russell's Swamplandia, and Denis Johnson's Train Dreams — not a single one was good enough to win this year's prize. Nice job, Pulitzer board. The twenty-member body was apparently unable to reach a majority vote approving the selection from the fiction jury. The last time this happened was in 1977, when A River Runs Through It got the shaft, and before that in 1974, when Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow was similarly denied. We're sure that 2008's Pulitzer Prize for Fiction–winner Junot Díaz (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao), who was on this year's board, is pissssssed.
- 4/16/2012
- by Gilbert Cruz
- Vulture
Michael Chabon's "The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" could be coming to a screen near you.
According to Collider, director Stephen Daldry wants to turn the novel into a miniseries for HBO.
"I would love to do something for TV," he said. "I wanna do Kavalier & Clay on HBO as an eight-parter. It'll be so much better as a series, honestly."
There's just one catch -- Daldry doesn't have the rights to the book. Paramount does -- though Daldry himself was signed on at one point to direct a film version, the project has continued to languish.
"I spent a year working on it with Michael Chabon, so we're pretty close," Daldry told Collider. "And the rights, good question. Will Paramount give them to me? I don't know. It'll be a really good one. It'd go great with 'Boardwalk Empire.'"
HBO is already working with Chabon and...
According to Collider, director Stephen Daldry wants to turn the novel into a miniseries for HBO.
"I would love to do something for TV," he said. "I wanna do Kavalier & Clay on HBO as an eight-parter. It'll be so much better as a series, honestly."
There's just one catch -- Daldry doesn't have the rights to the book. Paramount does -- though Daldry himself was signed on at one point to direct a film version, the project has continued to languish.
"I spent a year working on it with Michael Chabon, so we're pretty close," Daldry told Collider. "And the rights, good question. Will Paramount give them to me? I don't know. It'll be a really good one. It'd go great with 'Boardwalk Empire.'"
HBO is already working with Chabon and...
- 12/13/2011
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
HBO will adapt the novel "Swamplandia!", the first novel by author Karen Russell, into a half-hour comedy series from producer Scott Rudin.
'Swamplandia' is the name of a shabby amusement park set in the Florida Everglades, owned by 'alligator wrestlers', the 'Bigtree' family. Young daughter 'Ava Bigtree' has supernatural adventures in the murky mystical underground world of swamps and ghosts.
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'Swamplandia' is the name of a shabby amusement park set in the Florida Everglades, owned by 'alligator wrestlers', the 'Bigtree' family. Young daughter 'Ava Bigtree' has supernatural adventures in the murky mystical underground world of swamps and ghosts.
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- 10/21/2011
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Noir
Steven Lightfoot has been replaced by "Suits" Ep Sean Jablonski as executive producer/showrunner on Starz’s upcoming action drama series "Noir".
A live-action adaptation of the 2001 Japanese anime series, the story follows two female assassins who vow to fight a secret society and also try to work together to determine why and how they're mysteriously linked.
Sam Raimi, Bob Tapert, Joshua Donen and Bill Hamm are also serving as executive producer. [Source: Deadline]
Swamplandia
HBO has picked up a half-hour comedy series pilot adaptation of Karen Russell's novel "Swamplandia".
The story revolves around Ava Bigtree, a 12-year-old alligator wrestler who embarks on an improbable journey through the mangrove wilderness of southwest Florida as she searches for her lost sister.
Scott Rudin will executive produce and a writer is currently being sought. [Source: The Hollywood Reporter]
A Fan’s Notes
Producer Gary Pearl is putting together a cable TV series based on Frederick Exley,...
Steven Lightfoot has been replaced by "Suits" Ep Sean Jablonski as executive producer/showrunner on Starz’s upcoming action drama series "Noir".
A live-action adaptation of the 2001 Japanese anime series, the story follows two female assassins who vow to fight a secret society and also try to work together to determine why and how they're mysteriously linked.
Sam Raimi, Bob Tapert, Joshua Donen and Bill Hamm are also serving as executive producer. [Source: Deadline]
Swamplandia
HBO has picked up a half-hour comedy series pilot adaptation of Karen Russell's novel "Swamplandia".
The story revolves around Ava Bigtree, a 12-year-old alligator wrestler who embarks on an improbable journey through the mangrove wilderness of southwest Florida as she searches for her lost sister.
Scott Rudin will executive produce and a writer is currently being sought. [Source: The Hollywood Reporter]
A Fan’s Notes
Producer Gary Pearl is putting together a cable TV series based on Frederick Exley,...
- 10/20/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
HBO is adapting another book! This time it's "Swamplandia!" by Karen Russell.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Scott Rudin is on board to adapt Russell's book into a half-hour comedy. Rudin is also a producer on HBO's forthcoming adaptation of Jonathan Franzen's family epic, "The Corrections."
The author will consult, and the project is also seeking a writer to join the show.
"Swamplandia!" is the name of a strange tourist attraction in the wilds of Florida, owned by the Bigtree family. The Bigtrees are alligator wrestlers. Tween daughter Ava is the main character of the tale, which follows her on her adventures through the murky mystical underground world of the swamps. There will be ghosts.
What critically acclaimed novel will HBO nab next?...
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Scott Rudin is on board to adapt Russell's book into a half-hour comedy. Rudin is also a producer on HBO's forthcoming adaptation of Jonathan Franzen's family epic, "The Corrections."
The author will consult, and the project is also seeking a writer to join the show.
"Swamplandia!" is the name of a strange tourist attraction in the wilds of Florida, owned by the Bigtree family. The Bigtrees are alligator wrestlers. Tween daughter Ava is the main character of the tale, which follows her on her adventures through the murky mystical underground world of the swamps. There will be ghosts.
What critically acclaimed novel will HBO nab next?...
- 10/20/2011
- by Amy Lee
- Huffington Post
Scott Rudin has signed up to adapt the book Swamplandia for HBO. The producer is planning to make the Karen Russell novel into a half-hour comedy project, The Hollywood Reporter says. Swamplandia focuses on a 12-year-old alligator wrestler called Ava Bigtree who travels through Florida looking for her missing sister. Rudin has previously produced a number of successful movies, including The Social (more)...
- 10/20/2011
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
Karen Russell’s debut novel, Swamplandia!, does well so many of the things good fiction does well that it’s easy enough to write off a few small problems. Russell’s short-story collection, St. Lucy’s Home For Girls Raised By Wolves, promised a writer who could blend dark subject matter with a whimsical tone without becoming pretentious or twee. Swamplandia! more than delivers on that front. The Bigtree family of rural, swampy Florida has been at a loss since the death of beloved mother and wife Hilola. The family’s swamp-themed tourist trap, Swamplandia!, has fallen on hard times ...
- 3/10/2011
- avclub.com
This weekend: sisters take over their family's alligator park in Swamplandia!, Allison Pearson visits the cruel fates of adolescent fandom, and the haunting novels of Albania's Ismail Kadare.
Into the Swamp
Related story on The Daily Beast: This Week's Hot Reads
Swamplandia!, the talented short-story writer Karen Russell's debut novel, gives us two more of those precocious children who overcrowd the last 60 years of American fiction. From J.D. Salinger's Glass children to William Gaddis' Jr to Jonathan Safran Foer's Oskar Schell, our literature has clamored with intellectually overdeveloped but socially stunted children. Through their eyes, we're traditionally afforded fresh perspectives-often poignant or satirical-on modern society. Swamplandia!'s unique twist is to present two youths who at first seem to be Everglades savants, but turn out to be just regular kids in swampy circumstances.
The children in question are 13-year-old Ava Bigtree and her older brother Kiwi,...
Into the Swamp
Related story on The Daily Beast: This Week's Hot Reads
Swamplandia!, the talented short-story writer Karen Russell's debut novel, gives us two more of those precocious children who overcrowd the last 60 years of American fiction. From J.D. Salinger's Glass children to William Gaddis' Jr to Jonathan Safran Foer's Oskar Schell, our literature has clamored with intellectually overdeveloped but socially stunted children. Through their eyes, we're traditionally afforded fresh perspectives-often poignant or satirical-on modern society. Swamplandia!'s unique twist is to present two youths who at first seem to be Everglades savants, but turn out to be just regular kids in swampy circumstances.
The children in question are 13-year-old Ava Bigtree and her older brother Kiwi,...
- 2/5/2011
- by The Daily Beast
- The Daily Beast
The New Yorker, Vanity Fair’s chief athletics rival, has published its much-anticipated list of the 20 best fiction writers under 40. The names of the canon inductees will be published in next week’s fiction double issue. The list has also been published in a New York Times piece, which is available right this moment. The chosen ones: “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 32; Chris Adrian, 39; Daniel Alarcon, 33; David Bezmozgis, 37; Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, 38; Joshua Ferris, 35; Jonathan Safran Foer, 33; Nell Freudenberger, 35; Rivka Galchen, 34; Nicole Krauss, 35; Yiyun Li, 37; Dinaw Mengestu, 31; Philipp Meyer, 36; C. E. Morgan, 33; Tea Obreht, 24; Z Z Packer, 37; Karen Russell, 28; Salvatore Scibona, 35; Gary Shteyngart, 37; and Wells Tower, 37.” This is the most exciting thing to happen in the young-ish literary community since The Paris Review started a blog!
- 6/2/2010
- Vanity Fair
We already discussed the latest events in the Cate-Baze-Ryan love triangle in our "Storm Weathered" review. We're here to discuss something just as important: Life Unexpected music.
The songs featured on this week's installment were as amazing as ever, and we've put together a list of all the singles featured complete with lyrics and the ability to preview them in iTunes.
So go ahead and browse your favorite tunes from "Storm Weathered" below:
William Fitzsimmons - "After Afterall" Brett Dennen - "Ain't Gonna Lose You" Alex Blue - "Beauty in Symmetry" Greg Holden - "Days" Rose Rossi - "Don't Forget That We're In Love" Sunflow - "I Wish You Love" Ben Lee - "Into The Dark" Alex Blue - "Losing Aggression" Rosie Thomas - "Since You've Been Around" Cliff Hills - "Waiting for You Every Day" Karen Russell - "You Said"...
The songs featured on this week's installment were as amazing as ever, and we've put together a list of all the singles featured complete with lyrics and the ability to preview them in iTunes.
So go ahead and browse your favorite tunes from "Storm Weathered" below:
William Fitzsimmons - "After Afterall" Brett Dennen - "Ain't Gonna Lose You" Alex Blue - "Beauty in Symmetry" Greg Holden - "Days" Rose Rossi - "Don't Forget That We're In Love" Sunflow - "I Wish You Love" Ben Lee - "Into The Dark" Alex Blue - "Losing Aggression" Rosie Thomas - "Since You've Been Around" Cliff Hills - "Waiting for You Every Day" Karen Russell - "You Said"...
- 3/30/2010
- by eric@iscribelimited.com (The Barnacle)
- TVfanatic
Garrison Keillor at the Moth Ball. From PatrickMcMullan.com. New York City publishing held something akin to the World Series of book parties last week. To the frenzied tune of The Nutcracker’s Russian Dance, it went something like this: Monday marked the 90th anniversary of the Algonquin Roundtable, with a party to match. A panel (including New York gossips Paula Froelich and Michael Musto and Grey Gardens director Albert Maysles) bantered about reality stars and stardom—not exactly the stuff of Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley, but the modern-day iteration was plenty funny and charming. The same night, over the river and through the hoods, the National Book Foundation honored its “Five Under 35” at the Powerhouse Arena in Dumbo (according to the foundation’s Web site, the location is “a nod to Brooklyn’s status as the literary epicenter of New York City”). Sharing their work were five we-think-it’s-journalistically-appropriate-to-call-very-good-looking young authors: Ceridwen Dovey,...
- 11/24/2009
- Vanity Fair
-- The Sundance Film Festival will add the Next section for next year's gathering. The category will showcase six to eight films which make "innovative and original" use of low-/no-budget features. I wonder if "District 9" would have made the cut. (Variety)
-- Buried in a report on the upcoming lineup for Dino De Laurentiis Co., it was revealed that an adaptation of Karen Russell's novel "St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised By Wolves" is in the works. The story follows a group of girls raised by werewolves as they are being prepared to interact with civilized society. (Variety)
-- James Mangold's upcoming spy thriller starring Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz and Maggie Grace added one more to the cast: Marc Blucas. In the movie, a woman (Diaz) goes out on a blind date with a man (Cruise), only to learn that he's a federal agent. Shenanigans predictably...
-- Buried in a report on the upcoming lineup for Dino De Laurentiis Co., it was revealed that an adaptation of Karen Russell's novel "St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised By Wolves" is in the works. The story follows a group of girls raised by werewolves as they are being prepared to interact with civilized society. (Variety)
-- James Mangold's upcoming spy thriller starring Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz and Maggie Grace added one more to the cast: Marc Blucas. In the movie, a woman (Diaz) goes out on a blind date with a man (Cruise), only to learn that he's a federal agent. Shenanigans predictably...
- 9/2/2009
- by Adam Rosenberg
- MTV Movies Blog
Variety reported recently that Dino De Laurentiis is putting together a film version of Karen Russell’s book St. Lucy’S Home For Girls Raised By Wolves. The veteran producer, his VP of production development tells the trade, “loves films inspired by a literary beginning. He’s someone who loves to read, loves classic stories.”
Russell’s tome, published by Vintage in 2007, is a collection of tales narrated by children in supernatural situations. The titular story deals with the human daughters of werewolves being raised by nuns to enter polite society, and will apparently serve as the specific basis for the feature screenplay. No writer or director has yet been announced for the project.
Russell’s tome, published by Vintage in 2007, is a collection of tales narrated by children in supernatural situations. The titular story deals with the human daughters of werewolves being raised by nuns to enter polite society, and will apparently serve as the specific basis for the feature screenplay. No writer or director has yet been announced for the project.
- 9/2/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
In a trade break we seem to have missed, Variety reports famed producer Dino De Laurentiis has picked up the rights to Karen Russell's anthology "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves." The book is filled with tales of the supernatural and coming-of-age allegories. De Laurentiis is keen to adapt the title story which is about daughters with werewolves for parents who are "socialized into polite society." A writer has not been attached yet.
- 9/2/2009
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Development continues on a feature adaptation of author Karen Russell's book St. Lucy's Home For Girls raised By Wolves, from veteran film producer Dino De Laurentiis. Wolves is a series of 10 'fables', set in an enchanted version of North America, narrated by precocious children from dysfunctional households. In the title story, the human daughters of werewolves are socialized into polite society; in Ava Wrestles the Alligator, a motherless girl struggles to understand her big sister's blooming 'reptilian' sexuality; and two brothers in Haunting Olivia, search for their sister's ghost near 'Gannon's Boat Graveyard' using a pair of magic swimming goggles...
- 8/24/2009
- HollywoodNorthReport.com
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