NBC‘s single-camera comedy pilot Donor Party has been on hold because of difficulties casting the lead. The project, written by Alex Schemmer, centers on an irresponsible man forced to grow up when he discovers he has children resulting from his days as a sperm donor. I hear NBC went heavily after Rainn Wilson and Seann William Scott, offering both actors episodic guarantees, and decided to put a pin in the pilot after both passed. NBC has now slated the project, from Lionsgate, Media Talent Group and Universal TV, for off-season production. NBC also recently postponed drama pilot Wonderland because of the complexity of production for the Alice In Wonderland-themed project.
- 3/4/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Danny Cannon is set to direct and executive produce the CW drama pilot The Tomorrow People, the Warner Bros./Berlanti TV-produced adaptation of the British sci-fi series. Phil Klemmer wrote the script and exec produces with Greg Berlanti, Julie Plec and Cannon. Cannon’s pilot directing credits include the CSI franchise and Nikita. Rj Cutler, who directed the pilot for ABC’s freshman drama Nashville, will helm CBS’ drama pilot The Ordained. The project, from CBS TV Studios and writer Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, centers on the son of a Kennedy-esque family who leaves the priesthood and becomes a lawyer to prevent his politician sister from being assassinated. CAA-repped Cutler serves as an executive producer on Nashville. Emmy winner Todd Holland has signed on to direct the NBC single-camera comedy pilot Donor Party, from writer Alex Schemmer and Universal TV. It is about a guy who discovers he’s got children...
- 2/12/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
NBC ordered three comedy pilots Friday, including one from "The Office" executive producer Greg Daniels, one from Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, and one about a sperm donor's extended family from "Weeds" actor Alex Schemmer. The untitled comedy from executive producer Daniels and writer/executive producer Robert Padnick focuses on a group of friends struggling with dating in their twenties. The project from Deedle Dee Productions, 3 Arts Entertainment, and Universal Television is also executive produced by Tracy Katsky, Howard Klein. "Assistance," written and executive produced by "Bachelorette" writer Leslye Headland, is executive...
- 1/18/2013
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
NBC is staying in business with Office boss Greg Daniels, ordering an untitled half-hour comedy pilot from the writer-producer.
It was one of three projects the Peacock network extended pilot orders to on Friday.
The untitled Daniels comedy, penned by Office scribe Robert Padnick, centers on a group of friends in their 20s navigating the trials and tribulations of dating. The pilot focuses on bright eyed and vulnerable Matthew being pushed by his three best friends to get back on the dating horse.
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The...
It was one of three projects the Peacock network extended pilot orders to on Friday.
The untitled Daniels comedy, penned by Office scribe Robert Padnick, centers on a group of friends in their 20s navigating the trials and tribulations of dating. The pilot focuses on bright eyed and vulnerable Matthew being pushed by his three best friends to get back on the dating horse.
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The...
- 1/18/2013
- by Michael Ausiello
- TVLine.com
NBC has turned to The Office funnyman Greg Daniels to help pen a new single camera comedy for fall 2013 — one of three new laughers the net put into development today.
The Peacock gave a thumbs-up to an untitled project from Daniels that looks at the “trials and tribulations of dating in your twenties as explored through a group of friends. The pilot focuses on bright eyed and vulnerable Matthew being pushed by his three best friends to get back on the dating horse.” Other exec producers on the project are Robert Padnick, Tracy Katsky and Howard Klein.
NBC also ordered...
The Peacock gave a thumbs-up to an untitled project from Daniels that looks at the “trials and tribulations of dating in your twenties as explored through a group of friends. The pilot focuses on bright eyed and vulnerable Matthew being pushed by his three best friends to get back on the dating horse.” Other exec producers on the project are Robert Padnick, Tracy Katsky and Howard Klein.
NBC also ordered...
- 1/18/2013
- by Lynette Rice
- EW - Inside TV
NBC today added three more single-camera comedy pilots to its roster, including projects produced by Greg Daniels and the duo of Will Ferrell & Adam McKay. The Office boss Daniels and his Deedle Dee Prods have had a very active development season with a half-dozen projects landing at NBC and Fox. The one that got the nod at NBC today is an untitled half-hour written by The Office‘s Robert Padnick. The other two pilot slots went to Assistance, from writer Leslye Headland and Ferrell and McKay’s Gary Sanchez Prods, and Donor Party, from writer Alex Schemmer and producer Geyer Kosinski. This marks Gary Sanchez’s first pilot order under the company’s deal with Universal TV where Deedle Dee is also based. All three pilots hail from NBC’s sister studio, with Lionsgate TV co-producing Donor Party. This is Lionsgate’s second consecutive comedy pilot at NBC, following last year’s Next Caller,...
- 1/18/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
[1] Up to this point, Baz Luhrmann's been filling his 3D [2] adaptation of The Great Gatsby with well-known talents: Carey Mulligan [3], Tobey Maguire, and of course, Leonardo DiCaprio [4] as the titular Gatsby. So it's surprising and intriguing that the latest addition to his cast is a newcomer -- Elizabeth Debicki, who comes straight out of Australia's Victorian College of the Arts. Debicki will play golfer Jordan Baker, who in F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel is a friend of Daisy Buchanan (Mulligan) and the love interest of Nick Carraway (Maguire). In an interview, Luhrmann acknowledged the unusual nature of his selection: It was a surprising result, but Elizabeth's grasp of the material and her chemical connectivity to Tobey Maguire, in addition to her striking, athletic appearance, had us in a place where we were fully confident and ready to take the leap of giving the role of Jordan Baker to what,...
- 5/12/2011
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
We’ve got a bunch of casting updates for you from all over the place. In this article you see some confirmed and unconfirmed casting bits that involve Rachel Weisz, Aaron Eckhart and Sean Bean, Val Lauren, Katie Holmes and Chace Crawford, Keifer Sutherland, Matthew McConaughey and Hilary Swank, and Elizabeth Debicki. Keep reading to find out what projects they may be involved with.
• First up, double news for Rachel Weisz. The actress has two projects she’s looking at joining, and they should both be pretty big films. She’s looking at taking up a role in The Bourne Legacy which already has Jeremy Renner set to star. In this film, she’d play “an operative from a covert government program that is even more dangerous than the Treadstone brainwashing program that hatched Bourne.” [Deadline]
• Secondly, for Weisz, she’s also being considered for the remake of The Thin Man...
• First up, double news for Rachel Weisz. The actress has two projects she’s looking at joining, and they should both be pretty big films. She’s looking at taking up a role in The Bourne Legacy which already has Jeremy Renner set to star. In this film, she’d play “an operative from a covert government program that is even more dangerous than the Treadstone brainwashing program that hatched Bourne.” [Deadline]
• Secondly, for Weisz, she’s also being considered for the remake of The Thin Man...
- 5/12/2011
- by Ryan Laster
- If It's Movies
Hopefully her role wouldn’t be later recast as it was in The Dark Knight – now it’s for sure that Katie Holmes (Batman Begins) is signed on for the starring role together with Chace Crawford (Twelve) in the rom-com Responsible Adults, written by Alex Schemmer in his own debut as penner. Jon Poll, the director [...] Katie Holmes and Chace Crawford are Responsible Adults is a post from: www.FilmoFilia.com...
- 5/11/2011
- by Nikola Mraovic
- Filmofilia
Katie Holmes has signed on for romantic comedy 'Responsible Adults'. The 32-year-old actress - who is married to Hollywood legend Tom Cruise - will star alongside Chace Crawford in the project, written by Alex Schemmer. Katie will play a medical student who meets a younger man to who she becomes very attached, before realising she once babysat him 15 years ago. However, he resolves to not let her escape because he always knew his feelings for her. Kirk D'Amico, chief executive of Myriad Pictures, said the twosome would be an ''appealing'' couple...
- 5/11/2011
- Virgin Media - Movies
Katie Holmes and Chace Crawford will star in the comedy-romance "Responsible Adult" for Night & Day Pictures says Screen Daily.
The story follows a 30-year-old med student (Holmes) who meets and falls for a younger man (Crawford) only to realize she was his baby sitter fifteen years beforehand.
Alex Schemmer penned the screenplay while Jon Poll ("Charlie Bartlett") will direct and both Michael Roiff and Julie Yorn will produce. Shooting kicks off this Fall in Los Angeles.
The story follows a 30-year-old med student (Holmes) who meets and falls for a younger man (Crawford) only to realize she was his baby sitter fifteen years beforehand.
Alex Schemmer penned the screenplay while Jon Poll ("Charlie Bartlett") will direct and both Michael Roiff and Julie Yorn will produce. Shooting kicks off this Fall in Los Angeles.
- 5/11/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Katie Holmes (Batman Begins) and Chace Crawford (Twelve) have signed on to star in comedy-romance Responsible Adults.
John Poll (Charlie Bartlett) is attached to direct from a screenplay written by Alex Schemmer.
Responsible Adults centers on a 30-year-old medicine student (Holmes) who meets and falls for a younger man (Crawford) only to realise she was once his babysitter.
Night & Day Pictures will finance the film, while Myriad Pictures will sell the international rights at the 64th annual Cannes Film Festival this week.
Source: THR...
John Poll (Charlie Bartlett) is attached to direct from a screenplay written by Alex Schemmer.
Responsible Adults centers on a 30-year-old medicine student (Holmes) who meets and falls for a younger man (Crawford) only to realise she was once his babysitter.
Night & Day Pictures will finance the film, while Myriad Pictures will sell the international rights at the 64th annual Cannes Film Festival this week.
Source: THR...
- 5/11/2011
- by Jamie Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
If Hollywood has taught us anything, it's that romance can spring from anywhere at anytime and that you're only being close-minded if you think it's creepy.
So open up! Chace Crawford is about to get with his babysitter.
The "Gossip Girl" actor has signed on opposite Katie Holmes in the romantic comedy "Responsible Adults," which Deadline reports is currently being shopped around at the Cannes Film Festival. In the film, Crawford plays a 22-year-old who strikes up a steamy relationship with Holmes' 30-year-old med student, only to find out -- drum roll! -- she took care of him as a kid.
"Cradle robbing" never seemed like more appropriate a term.
The film was written by actor Alex Schemmer and will be directed Jon Poll, who has experience with films that dabble in both comedy and grounded relationships. Poll has been an editor on films like "Meet the Parents" and the "Austin Powers" films,...
So open up! Chace Crawford is about to get with his babysitter.
The "Gossip Girl" actor has signed on opposite Katie Holmes in the romantic comedy "Responsible Adults," which Deadline reports is currently being shopped around at the Cannes Film Festival. In the film, Crawford plays a 22-year-old who strikes up a steamy relationship with Holmes' 30-year-old med student, only to find out -- drum roll! -- she took care of him as a kid.
"Cradle robbing" never seemed like more appropriate a term.
The film was written by actor Alex Schemmer and will be directed Jon Poll, who has experience with films that dabble in both comedy and grounded relationships. Poll has been an editor on films like "Meet the Parents" and the "Austin Powers" films,...
- 5/11/2011
- by Matt Patches
- NextMovie
Katie Holmes and Chace Crawford have joined romantic comedy Responsible Adults. The film, written by Alex Schemmer, is about a 30-year-old medical student who falls for a 22-year-old man. However, the woman finds out that she was his babysitter 15 years ago. Dawson's Creek and Kennedys star Holmes will portray the medical student, while Gossip Girl regular Crawford has signed on to play the younger man. Filming on the movie, to be directed by John Poll, will (more)...
- 5/11/2011
- by By Ben Lee
- Digital Spy
Katie Holmes ( Batman Begins ) and Chace Crawford ("Gossip Girl," Twelve ) have signed on for the starring roles in the comedy-romance Responsible Adults , written by Alex Schemmer. Jon Poll, the director of Charlie Bartlett and a producer/editor of Dinner for Schmucks and Meet the Fockers , will direct. Michael Roiff from Night & Day Pictures is producing with Julie Yorn. Myriad Pictures is pre-selling international rights in Cannes this week. Holmes plays 30-year-old-med student Liz Quinn, who meets charming 22-year-old Baxter Wood (Crawford). Their chemistry is electric until she realizes they have already met - she was his babysitter 15 years ago. But Baxter isn't going to give up that easily on the one person he always felt knew him better than anyone...
- 5/11/2011
- Comingsoon.net
Los Angeles….Katie Holmes (Batman Begins, Thank You For Smoking, Go) and Chace Crawford (“Gossip Girl”, Twelve) have signed on for the starring roles in the comedy-romance Responsible Adults, written by Alex Schemmer. Jon Poll, the director of Charlie Bartlett and a producer/ editor of Dinner for Schmucks and Meet The Fockers will direct. Michael Roiff (Serious Moonlight, Waitress) from Night & Day Pictures is producing with Julie Yorn (Unstoppable, Bride Wars, The Exorcism of Emily Rose). Myriad Pictures is pre-selling international rights in Cannes this week. Holmes plays 30-year-old-med student Liz Quinn, who meets charming 22-year-old Baxter Wood (Crawford). Their chemistry is electric until she realizes they have already met - she was his babysitter 15 years ago. But Baxter isn’t going to give up that easily on the one person he always felt knew him better than anyone else. Kirk D’Amico, Myriad Pictures CEO said, “We look forward...
- 5/11/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Responsible Adults has cast Katie Holmes and Chace Crawford in the Jon Poll comedy written by Alex Schemmer. Michael Roiff (Serious Moonlight, Waitress) produces alongside Julie Yorn (Bride Wars, The Exorcism of Emily Rose). In Responsible Adults, Holmes plays a thirty-year-old med student who meets a charming 22-year-old and they share an electric chemistry, until she realizes she babysitted him fifteen years before that! Sugar momma! The film marks Schemmer's first screenplay and casting is underway for other supporting characters..
- 5/11/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Responsible Adults has cast Katie Holmes and Chace Crawford in the Jon Poll comedy written by Alex Schemmer. Michael Roiff (Serious Moonlight, Waitress) produces alongside Julie Yorn (Bride Wars, The Exorcism of Emily Rose). In Responsible Adults, Holmes plays a thirty-year-old med student who meets a charming 22-year-old and they share an electric chemistry, until she realizes she babysitted him fifteen years before that! Sugar momma! The film marks Schemmer's first screenplay and casting is underway for other supporting characters..
- 5/11/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Responsible Adults has cast Katie Holmes and Chace Crawford in the Jon Poll comedy written by Alex Schemmer. Michael Roiff (Serious Moonlight, Waitress) produces alongside Julie Yorn (Bride Wars, The Exorcism of Emily Rose). In Responsible Adults, Holmes plays a thirty-year-old med student who meets a charming 22-year-old and they share an electric chemistry, until she realizes she babysitted him fifteen years before that! Sugar momma! The film marks Schemmer's first screenplay and casting is underway for other supporting characters..
- 5/11/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Independent Film "Portland" Mourns Loss Of David Carradine Actor David Carradine was set to co-star in the feature film entitled Portland shooting in Los Angeles, CA and Portland, Or this summer. Los Angeles, CA, June 4, 2009 - The cast, crew, and producing team behind the feature film Portland are shocked and saddened to learn of the tragic passing of co-star David Carradine on the eve of principal photography. Portland was set to be David's next film and was his only project currently in pre-production. Helmed by Matthew Mishory, the picture stars Erin Daniels, Jonathan Caouette, Steven Martini, Renee Victor, and Alex Schemmer. Carradine was set to play a pivotal role in the film and this has been a great loss for the entire Portland family. "An actor of David Carradine's stature behind our film meant the world to us," said executive producers Adrian Salpeter and Elizabeth Levine of Random Bench Productions.
- 6/5/2009
- by Dave Campbell
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Toronto -- The death of actor David Carradine has forced a recast of what was to be his next project, the indie drama "Portland," on the eve of principal photography in Portland, Los Angeles and along the Pacific coast.
"Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this difficult time," executive producers Adrian Salpeter and Elizabeth Levine of Vancouver-based Random Bench Productions said in a statement.
Carradine was to co-star in the feature about the death of a young wanderer that connects a trio of damaged souls. The ensemble cast includes Erin Daniels, Jonathan Caouette ("Tarnation"), Steven Martini, Renee Victor and Alex Schemmer.
The project from writer/director Matthew Mishory will go ahead, with Iconoclastic Features and Random Bench Productions co-producing the U.S./U.K./Canada feature.
"Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this difficult time," executive producers Adrian Salpeter and Elizabeth Levine of Vancouver-based Random Bench Productions said in a statement.
Carradine was to co-star in the feature about the death of a young wanderer that connects a trio of damaged souls. The ensemble cast includes Erin Daniels, Jonathan Caouette ("Tarnation"), Steven Martini, Renee Victor and Alex Schemmer.
The project from writer/director Matthew Mishory will go ahead, with Iconoclastic Features and Random Bench Productions co-producing the U.S./U.K./Canada feature.
- 6/5/2009
- by By Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
We delightedly announce the 2009 Garland Awards, voted on by the Southern California theatre critics of Back Stage. Congratulations to the recipients. Your work touched us, made us think, made us proud to support the bustling, vibrant, inventive community that is Southland theatre. The critics who voted are Paul Birchall, Jeff Favre, Hoyt Hilsman, Travis Holder, Wenzel Jones, Iris Mann, Eric Marchese, Dany Margolies, Dink O’Neal, Brad Schreiber, Madeleine Shaner, Les Spindle, Neal Weaver, and Jennie Webb. Collectively we saw hundreds of shows in 2008, whether we were reviewing or not. This is true devotion to theatre. Under our voting system, each Garland winner was named on at least three critics' Best of 2008 lists. Each critic listed up to five nominees for each category except performance, up to 10 nominees for performance in musical productions and 10 for straight plays. Lists, minus the winners, are here Critics List. This year we present two...
- 3/12/2009
- backstage.com
Jeff Favreproduction: A Beautiful View, Son of Semele Theatre; Robots vs. Fake Robots, Powerhouse Theatre; Shipwrecked! An Entertainment, Geffen Playhouse.Playwriting: David Largman Murray, Robots vs. Fake Robots.Direction: Don Boughton, A Beautiful View; John Doyle, Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre; Tiger Reel, Cartoon, Art/Works Theatre; Elise Robertson, The Women, Circus Theatricals.Music Direction: Sarah Travis, Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Scenic Design: Simon Higlett, The School of Night, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum; Christine Jones, Spring Awakening, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre; Anthony Ward, My Fair Lady, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre.Lighting Design: Russell H. Champa, The School of Night; Richard Jones, Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.Costume Design: Anthony Ward, My Fair Lady.Sound Design: Dan Moses Schreier, Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.Perfomance In A (Primarily) Straight Play:Gregory Itzin,...
- 3/11/2009
- backstage.com
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