Exclusive: Electromagnetic Productions, the company set up by 300 and The Spiderwick Chronicles producer Mark Kimsey and former MGM boss Roger Birnbaum who produced films including The Sixth Sense and Rush Hour, is moving into non-scripted television.
The company, also known as Emp, has launched its first non-scripted television slate that includes a pair of projects with Nigel Lythgoe, the So You Think You Can Dance creator who was instrumental in the launch of the Idol format.
Emp is working with Lythgoe on Launch Pad and Dance Icons. Launch Pad is an entertainment format that will give diverse, emerging performers from a variety of creative disciplines, including music and comedy, their big break as they get to showcase their talent in front of entertainment industry decision makers with an immediate opportunity to win career making jobs. Dance Icons will bring to life the work of the greatest dance choreographers and directors.
The company, also known as Emp, has launched its first non-scripted television slate that includes a pair of projects with Nigel Lythgoe, the So You Think You Can Dance creator who was instrumental in the launch of the Idol format.
Emp is working with Lythgoe on Launch Pad and Dance Icons. Launch Pad is an entertainment format that will give diverse, emerging performers from a variety of creative disciplines, including music and comedy, their big break as they get to showcase their talent in front of entertainment industry decision makers with an immediate opportunity to win career making jobs. Dance Icons will bring to life the work of the greatest dance choreographers and directors.
- 5/23/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Academy Award and 3x Emmy winner Bill Conti (The Right Stuff) has been tapped to pen the score for Roselli’s Way, a new biopic on Italian American pop singer Jimmy Roselli.
The film scripted by J.D. Zeik (Ronin) will watch as Roselli looks back on a career, in which he was forever the underdog in comparison to contemporary Frank Sinatra, among others.
Michael Besman, James Deutch, Roger Birnbaum and Mark Kimsey will produce for Emp Productions, along with Spike Seldin and Neil Jesuele of Remarkable Media, and veteran music exec and record producer Ron Fair, who will also serve as music supervisor. James Ivory and Stephen Dembitzer will serve as exec producers. A director is not yet attached to the project, though the casting search for its title character is now under way.
“The story behind one of the greatest voices of his era needs to be told,...
The film scripted by J.D. Zeik (Ronin) will watch as Roselli looks back on a career, in which he was forever the underdog in comparison to contemporary Frank Sinatra, among others.
Michael Besman, James Deutch, Roger Birnbaum and Mark Kimsey will produce for Emp Productions, along with Spike Seldin and Neil Jesuele of Remarkable Media, and veteran music exec and record producer Ron Fair, who will also serve as music supervisor. James Ivory and Stephen Dembitzer will serve as exec producers. A director is not yet attached to the project, though the casting search for its title character is now under way.
“The story behind one of the greatest voices of his era needs to be told,...
- 1/30/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Call Me By Your Name Oscar winner James Ivory is behind a new biopic about Italian American pop singer Jimmy Roselli, who was a competitive voice at a time when Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Dean Martin were dominating.
J.D. Zeik, screenwriter of Robert De Niro pic Ronin, has penned the screenplay. Roselli grew up in Hoboken five houses down from Sinatra, some considering his vocal talents superior to Sinatra’s. Frank’s mother Dolly privately considered Jimmy her favorite singer. But due to his combative personality and refusal to yield to mob pressure to control him and his earnings, Roselli’s career suffered greatly.
This earned him powerful enemies and in his heyday of the 1950s and 60s led him to be blacklisted from the most important clubs, performance venues and his records banned at most radio stations. Self-sabotage may have hurt Roselli the most. He had a seven-show commitment on Ed Sullivan,...
J.D. Zeik, screenwriter of Robert De Niro pic Ronin, has penned the screenplay. Roselli grew up in Hoboken five houses down from Sinatra, some considering his vocal talents superior to Sinatra’s. Frank’s mother Dolly privately considered Jimmy her favorite singer. But due to his combative personality and refusal to yield to mob pressure to control him and his earnings, Roselli’s career suffered greatly.
This earned him powerful enemies and in his heyday of the 1950s and 60s led him to be blacklisted from the most important clubs, performance venues and his records banned at most radio stations. Self-sabotage may have hurt Roselli the most. He had a seven-show commitment on Ed Sullivan,...
- 12/13/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
"Mad Men's" illustrious costume designer Janie Bryant is working on her own reality show.
Deadline reports that the costume designer, who won an Emmy for her earlier costuming on HBO's "Deadwood," is in development on a new design competition series with the co-creators of NBC’s "Fashion Star," E.J. Johnston and James Deutch.
The reality competition show, which is currently called "Janie Bryant’s Hollywood," will give aspiring designers weekly challenges to create garments in the style of a classic Hollywood film, or a celebrity’s signature style, according to Deadline. Bryant and the show’s not-yet-named judges (Kiernan Shipka please!) will then decide who executed the assignment best.
"Costume design is about telling the story of the character through costume," Bryant told Stylelist of her work on "Mad Men." "I don't approach the costume design about trends. It's about maintaining the truth of the character."
On Twitter, Bryant...
Deadline reports that the costume designer, who won an Emmy for her earlier costuming on HBO's "Deadwood," is in development on a new design competition series with the co-creators of NBC’s "Fashion Star," E.J. Johnston and James Deutch.
The reality competition show, which is currently called "Janie Bryant’s Hollywood," will give aspiring designers weekly challenges to create garments in the style of a classic Hollywood film, or a celebrity’s signature style, according to Deadline. Bryant and the show’s not-yet-named judges (Kiernan Shipka please!) will then decide who executed the assignment best.
"Costume design is about telling the story of the character through costume," Bryant told Stylelist of her work on "Mad Men." "I don't approach the costume design about trends. It's about maintaining the truth of the character."
On Twitter, Bryant...
- 7/12/2013
- by Jaimie Etkin
- Huffington Post
If seeing Peggy finally make the transition to pantsuits was more exciting for you than watching Don begin to make peace with his Dickensian (and disturbingly sexual) past, we have some good news news. Deadline reports that Mad Men costume designer Janie Bryant is developing a design competition series with E.J. Johnston and James Deutch, co-creators of the NBC series Fashion Star. On the show, which is tentatively titled Janie Bryant's Hollywood, aspiring designers will be tasked each week with creating “a garment in the style of a classic Hollywood film, or a celebrity’s signature style.” Bryant and the as-yet-unnamed judges will select a winner. We're already excited about Kiernan Shipka's guest host appearance.
- 7/12/2013
- by Margaret Hartmann
- Vulture
Exclusive: Costume designer Janie Bryant — best known for Mad Men and her Emmy-winning work on HBO’s Deadwood – is in development on a new design competition series with E.J. Johnston and James Deutch, co-creators of NBC’s fashion competition series Fashion Star. In the new show — working title Janie Bryant’s Hollywood — wannabe designers will be given a different challenge each week to create a garment in the style of a classic Hollywood film, or a celebrity’s signature style (think Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Warren Beatty, etc). Bryant and the show’s judges will decide each week who best executed the challenge. “We loved the idea of tapping into someone like Bryant, who is great at finding a look and designing costumes for film and TV and seeing how it translates into the real world,” Deutch tells Deadline. “Janie totally gets how to translate Hollywood to mainstream fashion.
- 7/11/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
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