Network: Freeform
Episodes: 10 (hour)
Seasons: One
TV show dates: January 30, 2023 -- March 27, 2023
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Mariel Molino, Warren Christie, Kelly Bishop, Amy Acker, Jon Ecker, Lex Lumpkin, Henry Joseph Samiri, and Aliyah Royale.
TV show description:
A mystery thriller series, The Watchful Eye TV show was created by Julie Durk.
The story follows Elena Santos (Molino), a bright and savvy young woman hired as the live-in nanny to a wealthy widower and his young son. When Elena moves into The Greybourne, a landmark Manhattan apartment building, she quickly learns about the complex politics among its wealthy inhabitants and a history riddled with mystery and tragedy. Luckily, Elena is more than equipped to handle anything that comes...
Episodes: 10 (hour)
Seasons: One
TV show dates: January 30, 2023 -- March 27, 2023
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Mariel Molino, Warren Christie, Kelly Bishop, Amy Acker, Jon Ecker, Lex Lumpkin, Henry Joseph Samiri, and Aliyah Royale.
TV show description:
A mystery thriller series, The Watchful Eye TV show was created by Julie Durk.
The story follows Elena Santos (Molino), a bright and savvy young woman hired as the live-in nanny to a wealthy widower and his young son. When Elena moves into The Greybourne, a landmark Manhattan apartment building, she quickly learns about the complex politics among its wealthy inhabitants and a history riddled with mystery and tragedy. Luckily, Elena is more than equipped to handle anything that comes...
- 7/3/2023
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
“Single Drunk Female” and “The Watchful Eye” have both been canceled at Freeform, Variety has confirmed.
Season 2 of the comedy, which was released in April, picked up with Samantha Fink, who finally feels like she has a life worth celebrating now that she has a year and a half of sobriety under her belt. However, Sam quickly learns that sometimes life has other plans for her. She’s forced to figure out how to effect change where she can, sit in her discomfort when she can’t, and maybe even enjoy the ride.
Sofia Black-d’Elia, Ally Sheedy, Sasha Compere, Lily Mae Harrington, Garrick Bernard, and Ian Gomez starred. Busy Phillips (“Cougar Town”), Ricky Velez (“The King of Staten Island”), Charlie Hall served as recurring guests on the season with guest star Molly Ringwald.
“Single Drunk Female” was executive produced by creator Simon Finch, Jenni Konner, Daisy Gardner, John Riggi, Phil Traill,...
Season 2 of the comedy, which was released in April, picked up with Samantha Fink, who finally feels like she has a life worth celebrating now that she has a year and a half of sobriety under her belt. However, Sam quickly learns that sometimes life has other plans for her. She’s forced to figure out how to effect change where she can, sit in her discomfort when she can’t, and maybe even enjoy the ride.
Sofia Black-d’Elia, Ally Sheedy, Sasha Compere, Lily Mae Harrington, Garrick Bernard, and Ian Gomez starred. Busy Phillips (“Cougar Town”), Ricky Velez (“The King of Staten Island”), Charlie Hall served as recurring guests on the season with guest star Molly Ringwald.
“Single Drunk Female” was executive produced by creator Simon Finch, Jenni Konner, Daisy Gardner, John Riggi, Phil Traill,...
- 6/30/2023
- by BreAnna Bell
- Variety Film + TV
Freeform is shedding a pair of scripted originals.
The Disney-owned cable network has canceled sophomore comedy Single Drunk Female and rookie drama The Watchful Eye.
The news comes four months after Disney’s Dana Walden shuffled her executive ranks and gave oversight of Freeform to Simran Sethi, the ABC development executive who previously headed up originals for the younger-skewing broadcast network with former Freeform president Tara Duncan now exclusively focused on the Onyx Collective studio.
Single Drunk Female starredSofia Black-d’Elia, Ally Sheedy, Rebecca Henderson, Sasha Compere, Lily Mae Harrington and Garrick Bernard and hailed from creator Simone Finch (The Connors) and exec producer Jenni Konner (Girls). The show was produced in-house by Disney’s 20th Television, where Konner is based with an overall deal.
The Watchful Eye, meanwhile, ran for one season on Freeform and starred Mariel Molino in the thriller about a young nanny who goes to work...
The Disney-owned cable network has canceled sophomore comedy Single Drunk Female and rookie drama The Watchful Eye.
The news comes four months after Disney’s Dana Walden shuffled her executive ranks and gave oversight of Freeform to Simran Sethi, the ABC development executive who previously headed up originals for the younger-skewing broadcast network with former Freeform president Tara Duncan now exclusively focused on the Onyx Collective studio.
Single Drunk Female starredSofia Black-d’Elia, Ally Sheedy, Rebecca Henderson, Sasha Compere, Lily Mae Harrington and Garrick Bernard and hailed from creator Simone Finch (The Connors) and exec producer Jenni Konner (Girls). The show was produced in-house by Disney’s 20th Television, where Konner is based with an overall deal.
The Watchful Eye, meanwhile, ran for one season on Freeform and starred Mariel Molino in the thriller about a young nanny who goes to work...
- 6/30/2023
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Freeform is making some changes.
The Disney-backed network has canceled Single Drunk Female and The Watchful Eye.
Single Drunk Female has run for two seasons on the network and The Watchful Eye has been axed after one season.
Single Drunk Female follows 20-something alcoholic Samantha Fink (Sofia Black-d’Elia) who, after a public flame-out at a New York media company, is forced to seize the only chance she has to sober up and avoid jail time: moving back home with her overbearing mother, Carol (Ally Sheedy). Back in Greater Boston, Samantha sets out on a path to move past her worst self and figure out her best self. Kinda.
Rebecca Henderson, Sasha Compère, Lily Mae Harrington and Garrick Bernard also star.
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The series comes from 20th Television and was created by Simone Finch, who executive produces along with Jenni Konner,...
The Disney-backed network has canceled Single Drunk Female and The Watchful Eye.
Single Drunk Female has run for two seasons on the network and The Watchful Eye has been axed after one season.
Single Drunk Female follows 20-something alcoholic Samantha Fink (Sofia Black-d’Elia) who, after a public flame-out at a New York media company, is forced to seize the only chance she has to sober up and avoid jail time: moving back home with her overbearing mother, Carol (Ally Sheedy). Back in Greater Boston, Samantha sets out on a path to move past her worst self and figure out her best self. Kinda.
Rebecca Henderson, Sasha Compère, Lily Mae Harrington and Garrick Bernard also star.
Related: 2023 Premiere Dates For New & Returning Series On Broadcast, Cable & Streaming
The series comes from 20th Television and was created by Simone Finch, who executive produces along with Jenni Konner,...
- 6/30/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Freeform, the network that brought the hit series Cruel Summer, has a new mystery series worth checking out: The Watchful Eye. The show follows a young woman who uncovers dark secrets — and maybe something supernatural — during her stay at The Greybourne, an apartment building that is home to an affluent family. The plot of The Watchful Eye may sound like something out of a mystery novel, but is it based on a book? Here’s what to know about the show’s inspiration.
Mariel Morino as Elena and Amy Acker as Tory in ‘The Watchful Eye’ | Kailey Schwerman/Freeform What is ‘The Watchful Eye’ on Freeform?
The Watchful Eye stars Mariel Morino As Elena Santos, a live-in nanny with a complicated past who has been hired to look after Jasper Ward (Henry Joseph Samiri). However, Elena has an ulterior motive for taking on the job: She wants to get her...
Mariel Morino as Elena and Amy Acker as Tory in ‘The Watchful Eye’ | Kailey Schwerman/Freeform What is ‘The Watchful Eye’ on Freeform?
The Watchful Eye stars Mariel Morino As Elena Santos, a live-in nanny with a complicated past who has been hired to look after Jasper Ward (Henry Joseph Samiri). However, Elena has an ulterior motive for taking on the job: She wants to get her...
- 2/7/2023
- by Elise Nelson
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
The first two episodes of The Watchful Eye premiered on Freeform — the same network that brought the hit series Cruel Summer — on Jan. 30. Fans are already loving the mystery thriller show, which follows a young woman who uncovers dark secrets in an apartment building inhabited by an affluent family. Read on to find out when, where, and how to watch new episodes of The Watchful Eye.
Mariel Morino as Elena in ‘The Watchful Eye’ | Brendan Meadows/Freeform What is ‘The Watchful Eye’ about?
The Watchful Eye stars Mariel Molino as Elena Santos, a young woman with a complicated past who lands a job as a live-in nanny for the affluent Ward family at the Greybourne apartment building in Manhattan. Little does the Ward family know that Elena and her boyfriend are secretly in search of a Ward family heirloom.
While caring for young Jasper Ward (Henry Joseph Samiri) and searching for the heirloom,...
Mariel Morino as Elena in ‘The Watchful Eye’ | Brendan Meadows/Freeform What is ‘The Watchful Eye’ about?
The Watchful Eye stars Mariel Molino as Elena Santos, a young woman with a complicated past who lands a job as a live-in nanny for the affluent Ward family at the Greybourne apartment building in Manhattan. Little does the Ward family know that Elena and her boyfriend are secretly in search of a Ward family heirloom.
While caring for young Jasper Ward (Henry Joseph Samiri) and searching for the heirloom,...
- 2/6/2023
- by Elise Nelson
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
When Elena accepts a nanny job for an affluent Manhattan family, her life is transformed into a world of lies, ulterior motives, and deadly secrets in Freeform‘s “The Watchful Eye.”
“The Watchful Eye” premieres January 30. Watch the official trailer below.
“The series follows Elena Santos, a young woman with a complicated past, maneuvering her way into working as a live-in nanny for an affluent family in Manhattan. She quickly learns that everyone in the mysterious building has deadly secrets and ulterior motives. What they don’t know, however, is that Elena has some shocking secrets of her own.”
Mariel Molino stars alongside Kelly Bishop, Warren Christie, Amy Acker, Jon Ecker, Lex Lumpkin, Henry Joseph Samiri and Aliyah Royale.
“I think that the suspense, the eeriness, the cinematic aspect of the show [are Hitchcockian]. Hitchcockian thrillers are usually very cinematic; they’re full of suspense; and obviously they’re crime-driven. But I...
“The Watchful Eye” premieres January 30. Watch the official trailer below.
“The series follows Elena Santos, a young woman with a complicated past, maneuvering her way into working as a live-in nanny for an affluent family in Manhattan. She quickly learns that everyone in the mysterious building has deadly secrets and ulterior motives. What they don’t know, however, is that Elena has some shocking secrets of her own.”
Mariel Molino stars alongside Kelly Bishop, Warren Christie, Amy Acker, Jon Ecker, Lex Lumpkin, Henry Joseph Samiri and Aliyah Royale.
“I think that the suspense, the eeriness, the cinematic aspect of the show [are Hitchcockian]. Hitchcockian thrillers are usually very cinematic; they’re full of suspense; and obviously they’re crime-driven. But I...
- 1/12/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
There’s a complicated mystery afoot in Freeform‘s upcoming series The Watchful Eye.
A trailer released Wednesday, which is embedded below, previews a Hitchcock-inspired story that begins when a woman dies after falling off the ledge of a building — only some believe she may have been pushed.
Enter Elena Santos (Mariel Molino), a young woman with a complicated past, maneuvering her way into working as a live-in nanny for the affluent family in Manhattan who may have had something to do with the young woman’s death. At the behest of the woman’s mother, played by Kelly Bishop, Elena is trying to get to the bottom of the mystery, only to discover the mysterious building she now lives in has deadly secrets and ulterior motives. What they don’t know, however, is that Elena has some shocking secrets of her own.
“I think that the suspense, the eeriness,...
A trailer released Wednesday, which is embedded below, previews a Hitchcock-inspired story that begins when a woman dies after falling off the ledge of a building — only some believe she may have been pushed.
Enter Elena Santos (Mariel Molino), a young woman with a complicated past, maneuvering her way into working as a live-in nanny for the affluent family in Manhattan who may have had something to do with the young woman’s death. At the behest of the woman’s mother, played by Kelly Bishop, Elena is trying to get to the bottom of the mystery, only to discover the mysterious building she now lives in has deadly secrets and ulterior motives. What they don’t know, however, is that Elena has some shocking secrets of her own.
“I think that the suspense, the eeriness,...
- 1/12/2023
- by Katie Campione
- Deadline Film + TV
Freeform’s kicking off the first season of the thriller The Watchful Eye on Monday, January 30, 2023 with back-to-back one-hour episodes. The new series follows Elena Santos (Mariel Molino) as she steps into the job of a nanny for a wealthy widower’s young son. Episode one, “Hen in the Fox House,” premieres at 9pm Et/Pt followed by “Hide and Seek” at 10pm Et/Pt.
The show will settle into its normal timeslot of Mondays at 10pm Et/Pt with episode three.
In addition to Mariel Molino, season one stars Warren Christie as Matthew, Kelly Bishop as Mrs. Ivey, Amy Acker as Tory, and Jon Ecker as Scott. Lex Lumpkin plays Elliott, Henry Joseph Saimiri is Jasper, and Aliyah Royale stars as Ginny.
The series comes from Ryan Seacrest Productions and was created by Julie Durk (Grace and Frankie). Durk serves as a consultant and Emily Fox (Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist) serves as showrunner.
The show will settle into its normal timeslot of Mondays at 10pm Et/Pt with episode three.
In addition to Mariel Molino, season one stars Warren Christie as Matthew, Kelly Bishop as Mrs. Ivey, Amy Acker as Tory, and Jon Ecker as Scott. Lex Lumpkin plays Elliott, Henry Joseph Saimiri is Jasper, and Aliyah Royale stars as Ginny.
The series comes from Ryan Seacrest Productions and was created by Julie Durk (Grace and Frankie). Durk serves as a consultant and Emily Fox (Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist) serves as showrunner.
- 1/10/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Freeform has an exciting new thriller on tap for early 2023.
The young-skewing cabler revealed The Watchful Eye will launch Monday, Jan. 30, with a double episode premiere at 9 p.m. before moving to its regular 10 p.m. timeslot.
The series follows Elena Santos, played by Mariel Molino, a young woman with a complicated past, maneuvering her way into working as a live-in nanny for an affluent family in Manhattan.
She quickly learns that everyone in the mysterious building has deadly secrets and ulterior motives.
What they don't know, however, is that Elena has some shocking secrets of her own.
The series comes from Ryan Seacrest Productions and stars Molino, Warren Christie, Amy Acker, Jon Ecker, Aliyah Royale, Lex Lumpkin, Henry Joseph Samiri and Kelly Bishop.
It is created by Julie Durk (Grace and Frankie), who also serves as consultant.
Emily Fox (Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist) is showrunner and executive producer. Ryan Seacrest,...
The young-skewing cabler revealed The Watchful Eye will launch Monday, Jan. 30, with a double episode premiere at 9 p.m. before moving to its regular 10 p.m. timeslot.
The series follows Elena Santos, played by Mariel Molino, a young woman with a complicated past, maneuvering her way into working as a live-in nanny for an affluent family in Manhattan.
She quickly learns that everyone in the mysterious building has deadly secrets and ulterior motives.
What they don't know, however, is that Elena has some shocking secrets of her own.
The series comes from Ryan Seacrest Productions and stars Molino, Warren Christie, Amy Acker, Jon Ecker, Aliyah Royale, Lex Lumpkin, Henry Joseph Samiri and Kelly Bishop.
It is created by Julie Durk (Grace and Frankie), who also serves as consultant.
Emily Fox (Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist) is showrunner and executive producer. Ryan Seacrest,...
- 11/3/2022
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Freeform will kick off the new year with grown-ish‘s return to campus:
The second half of Season 5 will premiere Wednesday, Jan. 18 at 10:30/9:30c, the network announced on Thursday.
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The comedy has gone through a cast overhaul this season, following the departures of Francia Raisa (Ana), Emily Arlook (Nomi), Chloe Bailey (Jazz...
The second half of Season 5 will premiere Wednesday, Jan. 18 at 10:30/9:30c, the network announced on Thursday.
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The comedy has gone through a cast overhaul this season, following the departures of Francia Raisa (Ana), Emily Arlook (Nomi), Chloe Bailey (Jazz...
- 11/3/2022
- by Vlada Gelman
- TVLine.com
Freeform has ordered the new scripted series “The Watchful Eye” to series, with Mariel Molino (“Promised Land”) set to lead the cast.
Formerly known as “The Nanny” and created by Julie Durk (“Grace and Frankie”), “The Watchful Eye” focuses on Elena Santos (Molino), a young woman who begins a new job as a live-in nanny for an affluent Manhattan widower and his young son. Moving into their apartment building the Greybourne, she quickly discovers the secrets of many of the other inhabitants, while struggling to hide her own complicated past. The show was ordered to pilot at the network back in September 2021 with Andrea Londo in the lead role.
In addition to Molino, the series also stars Warren Christie (“The Village”) as Elena’s employer Matthew, Kelly Bishop (“Gilmore Girls”) as lifelong Greybourne resident Mrs. Ivey, Amy Acker (“The Gifted”) as Matthew’s sister-in-law Tory, Jon Ecker (“Firefly Lane”) as Elena’s boyfriend Scott,...
Formerly known as “The Nanny” and created by Julie Durk (“Grace and Frankie”), “The Watchful Eye” focuses on Elena Santos (Molino), a young woman who begins a new job as a live-in nanny for an affluent Manhattan widower and his young son. Moving into their apartment building the Greybourne, she quickly discovers the secrets of many of the other inhabitants, while struggling to hide her own complicated past. The show was ordered to pilot at the network back in September 2021 with Andrea Londo in the lead role.
In addition to Molino, the series also stars Warren Christie (“The Village”) as Elena’s employer Matthew, Kelly Bishop (“Gilmore Girls”) as lifelong Greybourne resident Mrs. Ivey, Amy Acker (“The Gifted”) as Matthew’s sister-in-law Tory, Jon Ecker (“Firefly Lane”) as Elena’s boyfriend Scott,...
- 6/30/2022
- by Wilson Chapman
- Variety Film + TV
Freeform has picked up to series The Watchful Eye (fka The Nanny) drama with Mariel Molino (Promised Land) set to lead the ensemble cast. The Watchful Eye (fka The Nanny), which was ordered to pilot last year, hails from Julie Durk (Grace and Frankie), Ryan Seacrest Productions and ABC Signature.
Created by Durk, who also serves as consultant, The Watchful Eye is described as a Hitchcockian contemporary thriller that follows a young woman as she is thrust into a world of old money and deadly secrets. It follows Elena Santos, played by Molino, a young woman with a complicated past, maneuvering her way into working as a live-in nanny for an affluent family in Manhattan. She quickly learns that everyone in the mysterious building has deadly secrets and ulterior motives. What they don’t know, however, is that Elena has some shocking secrets of her own.
Molino’s Elena is a bright,...
Created by Durk, who also serves as consultant, The Watchful Eye is described as a Hitchcockian contemporary thriller that follows a young woman as she is thrust into a world of old money and deadly secrets. It follows Elena Santos, played by Molino, a young woman with a complicated past, maneuvering her way into working as a live-in nanny for an affluent family in Manhattan. She quickly learns that everyone in the mysterious building has deadly secrets and ulterior motives. What they don’t know, however, is that Elena has some shocking secrets of her own.
Molino’s Elena is a bright,...
- 6/30/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Click here to read the full article.
Freeform is headed into the world of wealthy Manhattanites with its latest series pickup.
The Disney-owned cable outlet has greenlit The Watchful Eye, a thriller centered on a young nanny who goes to work for a wealthy New York family that harbors a closetful of secrets.
Mariel Molino (ABC’s Promised Land) will play the lead role of Elena Santos, who maneuvers her way into a job with an affluent family and has some shocking secrets of her own. Molino takes over from Andrea Londos, who played Elena in the show’s pilot; sources say the character was reworked after the pilot, leading to the recasting.
Julie Durk (Grace and Frankie) created The Watchful Eye and will serve as a consultant. Emily Fox (Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist) will be the showrunner on the series from ABC Signature and Ryan Seacrest Productions.
“I’m...
Freeform is headed into the world of wealthy Manhattanites with its latest series pickup.
The Disney-owned cable outlet has greenlit The Watchful Eye, a thriller centered on a young nanny who goes to work for a wealthy New York family that harbors a closetful of secrets.
Mariel Molino (ABC’s Promised Land) will play the lead role of Elena Santos, who maneuvers her way into a job with an affluent family and has some shocking secrets of her own. Molino takes over from Andrea Londos, who played Elena in the show’s pilot; sources say the character was reworked after the pilot, leading to the recasting.
Julie Durk (Grace and Frankie) created The Watchful Eye and will serve as a consultant. Emily Fox (Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist) will be the showrunner on the series from ABC Signature and Ryan Seacrest Productions.
“I’m...
- 6/30/2022
- by Rick Porter
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Freeform has picked up the new drama “The Watchful Eye” from Ryan Seacrest Productions. Formerly known as “The Nanny,” the Mariel Molino–starring series is created by Julie Durk (“Grace and Frankie”), who also serves as consultant.
The ABC Signature–produced show follows Elena Santos (Molino), a young woman with a complex past and a few skeletons in her closet, who begins working as an au pair for a wealthy family. However, she quickly realizes that everyone in the luxurious Manhattan apartment building – called the Greybourne – is also hiding deadly secrets and ulterior motives.
Emily Fox (“Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist”) is showrunner and executive producer. Seacrest, Nina Wass, Andrea Shay and Jeffrey Reiner also executive produce with Reiner directing the pilot.
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The ABC Signature–produced show follows Elena Santos (Molino), a young woman with a complex past and a few skeletons in her closet, who begins working as an au pair for a wealthy family. However, she quickly realizes that everyone in the luxurious Manhattan apartment building – called the Greybourne – is also hiding deadly secrets and ulterior motives.
Emily Fox (“Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist”) is showrunner and executive producer. Seacrest, Nina Wass, Andrea Shay and Jeffrey Reiner also executive produce with Reiner directing the pilot.
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- 6/30/2022
- by Natalie Oganesyan
- The Wrap
A nanny played by Andrea Londo (Narcos) arouses the interests of characters played by Warren Christie (Alphas) and Amy Acker (Person of Interest) in a Freeform drama pilot that begins shooting this week.
In the untitled project from Grace and Frankie EP/writer Julie Durk — which, per THR, is being described as “a modern-day Hitchcockian thriller about a young woman who’s thrust into a world of old money and deadly secrets” — Lando stars as Elena, the new, live-in nanny hired by a wealthy, widowed architect (Christie) to mind his son (The Bold and the Beautiful‘s Henry Joseph Samiri). Elena,...
In the untitled project from Grace and Frankie EP/writer Julie Durk — which, per THR, is being described as “a modern-day Hitchcockian thriller about a young woman who’s thrust into a world of old money and deadly secrets” — Lando stars as Elena, the new, live-in nanny hired by a wealthy, widowed architect (Christie) to mind his son (The Bold and the Beautiful‘s Henry Joseph Samiri). Elena,...
- 9/13/2021
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Freeform has ordered a Hitchcockian nanny drama pilot from Grace and Frankie exec producer Julie Durk.
Andrea Londo (Narcos), Warren Christie (The Village), Kelly Bishop (Gilmore Girls), Amy Acker (The Gifted), Jon Ecker (Firefly Lane), Lex Lumpkin (All That), Henry Joseph Samiri (The Bold and the Beautiful) and Aliyah Royale (The Walking Dead: The World Beyond) star in the untitled pilot.
The one-hour drama, which was known as “The Nanny” in development, is described as a Hitchcockian contemporary thriller that follows a young woman as she is thrust into a world of old money and deadly secrets.
The Untitled Julie Durk Project is written by Durk, who exec produced feature film You’ve Got Mail, and comes from ABC Signature and Ryan Seacrest Productions. Durk, Ryan Seacrest, Nina Wass and Andrea Shay exec produce.
Londo plays Elena, who at first seems like just a wholesome, friendly young woman trying to get...
Andrea Londo (Narcos), Warren Christie (The Village), Kelly Bishop (Gilmore Girls), Amy Acker (The Gifted), Jon Ecker (Firefly Lane), Lex Lumpkin (All That), Henry Joseph Samiri (The Bold and the Beautiful) and Aliyah Royale (The Walking Dead: The World Beyond) star in the untitled pilot.
The one-hour drama, which was known as “The Nanny” in development, is described as a Hitchcockian contemporary thriller that follows a young woman as she is thrust into a world of old money and deadly secrets.
The Untitled Julie Durk Project is written by Durk, who exec produced feature film You’ve Got Mail, and comes from ABC Signature and Ryan Seacrest Productions. Durk, Ryan Seacrest, Nina Wass and Andrea Shay exec produce.
Londo plays Elena, who at first seems like just a wholesome, friendly young woman trying to get...
- 9/13/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix announced that the third and final season of “Narcos: Mexico” will premiere on Nov. 5 and released some first looks at the episodes.
This third and final season follows the war that breaks out after Felix’s arrest and the new Mexican kingpins who emerge as newly independent cartels navigate political turmoil and escalating violence.
Returning series regulars include Scoot McNairy, José María Yázpik, Alfonso Dosal, Mayra Hermosillo, Matt Letscher, Manuel Masalva, Alejandro Edda and Gorka Lasaosa. New cast members include Luis Gerardo Méndez, Alberto Guerra and Luisa Rubino, with guest star Bad Bunny aka Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio.
Executive producers on the series are Sidonie Dumas; Christophe Riandee; Nicolas Atlan; José Padilha; Doug Miro; Andrés Baiz, who also directs; Eric Newman and showrunner Carlo Bernard. Other directors are Alejandra Márquez Abella, Luis Ortega, Amat Escalante and Wagner Moura direct. Gaumont serves as the production company.
Watch a teaser and...
This third and final season follows the war that breaks out after Felix’s arrest and the new Mexican kingpins who emerge as newly independent cartels navigate political turmoil and escalating violence.
Returning series regulars include Scoot McNairy, José María Yázpik, Alfonso Dosal, Mayra Hermosillo, Matt Letscher, Manuel Masalva, Alejandro Edda and Gorka Lasaosa. New cast members include Luis Gerardo Méndez, Alberto Guerra and Luisa Rubino, with guest star Bad Bunny aka Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio.
Executive producers on the series are Sidonie Dumas; Christophe Riandee; Nicolas Atlan; José Padilha; Doug Miro; Andrés Baiz, who also directs; Eric Newman and showrunner Carlo Bernard. Other directors are Alejandra Márquez Abella, Luis Ortega, Amat Escalante and Wagner Moura direct. Gaumont serves as the production company.
Watch a teaser and...
- 9/13/2021
- by Ethan Shanfeld and Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
Freeform’s latest drama pilot has lined up an impressive cast.
The untitled project from Grace and Frankie executive producer Julie Durk and Ryan Seacrest Productions will star Andrea Londo (Narcos), Warren Christie (Batwoman, The Village), Kelly Bishop (Gilmore Girls) and Amy Acker (Angel, Person of Interest). The pilot, which begins production Monday, is described as a modern-day Hitchcockian thriller about a young woman who’s thrust into a world of old money and deadly secrets.
The cast also includes Jon Ecker (Firefly Lane), Lex Lumpkin (All That), Henry Joseph Samiri (The Bold and the Beautiful) and Aliyah Royale (The Walking Dead: ...
The untitled project from Grace and Frankie executive producer Julie Durk and Ryan Seacrest Productions will star Andrea Londo (Narcos), Warren Christie (Batwoman, The Village), Kelly Bishop (Gilmore Girls) and Amy Acker (Angel, Person of Interest). The pilot, which begins production Monday, is described as a modern-day Hitchcockian thriller about a young woman who’s thrust into a world of old money and deadly secrets.
The cast also includes Jon Ecker (Firefly Lane), Lex Lumpkin (All That), Henry Joseph Samiri (The Bold and the Beautiful) and Aliyah Royale (The Walking Dead: ...
- 9/13/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Freeform’s latest drama pilot has lined up an impressive cast.
The untitled project from Grace and Frankie executive producer Julie Durk and Ryan Seacrest Productions will star Andrea Londo (Narcos), Warren Christie (Batwoman, The Village), Kelly Bishop (Gilmore Girls) and Amy Acker (Angel, Person of Interest). The pilot, which begins production Monday, is described as a modern-day Hitchcockian thriller about a young woman who’s thrust into a world of old money and deadly secrets.
The cast also includes Jon Ecker (Firefly Lane), Lex Lumpkin (All That), Henry Joseph Samiri (The Bold and the Beautiful) and Aliyah Royale (The Walking Dead: ...
The untitled project from Grace and Frankie executive producer Julie Durk and Ryan Seacrest Productions will star Andrea Londo (Narcos), Warren Christie (Batwoman, The Village), Kelly Bishop (Gilmore Girls) and Amy Acker (Angel, Person of Interest). The pilot, which begins production Monday, is described as a modern-day Hitchcockian thriller about a young woman who’s thrust into a world of old money and deadly secrets.
The cast also includes Jon Ecker (Firefly Lane), Lex Lumpkin (All That), Henry Joseph Samiri (The Bold and the Beautiful) and Aliyah Royale (The Walking Dead: ...
- 9/13/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Exclusive: Authentic Talent and Literary Management is absorbing Magnet Management, with the Hollywood companies to join forces officially next month under the Authentic banner. As part of the deal, Magnet’s co-founders Zach Tann, Jennie Frankel Frisbie and Bob Sobhani will take on oversight of Authentic’s literary division, joined by their Magnet cohorts Chris Mills, Mitch Solomon and Chris Emerson. The entire Magnet team is making the move.
They join Authentic’s team of more than 35 managers and execs in the Brooklyn and Los Angeles offices and and bring into the fold screenwriter, producer and director clients including Brett Conrad, Christian Taylor (Luke Cage), Craig Titley (Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D), Elliott Owen (King Julien), Jacque Cofer (Superior Donuts), Jeff Davis, Julie Durk (Grace and Frankie), Sal Calleros, Steven D. Binder...
They join Authentic’s team of more than 35 managers and execs in the Brooklyn and Los Angeles offices and and bring into the fold screenwriter, producer and director clients including Brett Conrad, Christian Taylor (Luke Cage), Craig Titley (Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D), Elliott Owen (King Julien), Jacque Cofer (Superior Donuts), Jeff Davis, Julie Durk (Grace and Frankie), Sal Calleros, Steven D. Binder...
- 8/8/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Kids, you may not believe this, but some of us are old enough to remember when you used to have to connect to the Internet via 56k dial-up modems. Or that AOL was once the most popular Internet service provider, so popular that everyone recognized the cheerful "You've Got Mail" alert that sounded when you signed on. Or that the "You've Got Mail" greeting was a promise that there was something exciting waiting for you in your e-mail inbox, not just spam ads for Canadian Viagra. Don't believe us? There's a historical document you should check out, aptly titled, "You've Got Mail."
It's been just 15 years since Nora Ephron's romantic comedy opened (December 18, 1998), but it seems like eons ago, not just because the Internet has evolved so much since then, but because we've all watched the unwitting romance between Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) and Joe Fox (Tom Hanks) -- business rivals by day,...
It's been just 15 years since Nora Ephron's romantic comedy opened (December 18, 1998), but it seems like eons ago, not just because the Internet has evolved so much since then, but because we've all watched the unwitting romance between Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) and Joe Fox (Tom Hanks) -- business rivals by day,...
- 12/18/2013
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
Opens
April 30
"Laws of Attraction" is no "Adam's Rib". The key problem to this romantic comedy about husband-and-wife lawyers on opposite sides of a court battle is that one is never convinced that Pierce Brosnan's Daniel Rafferty and Julianne Moore's Audrey Woods are really a couple. There is not one reason for them even to like each other. The only chemistry that takes place between the actors is the combustible kind, and the screenplay goes to great lengths to cast each in the worst possible light, both professionally and personally.
This comedy about the attraction of opposites is aimed at older audiences, especially women. But the film lacks the sophistication or smarts to draw such an audience in sufficient numbers to ensure above-average boxoffice. The film should do better on television and DVD/video.
Moore is certainly one of our better screen actresses, but she understandably struggles to get a purchase on this unevenly written role. Audrey is supposedly a top New York divorce lawyer in a high-powered law firm. Yet Aline Brosh McKenna and Robert Harling's screenplay insists that she would stoop to following a rival attorney into the men's room or get so flustered when she finds herself alone in his office that she knocks over objects, sets off alarms and gets caught on security cameras fleeing the disaster.
Brosnan's role is better suited to the actor's talents, which no doubt reflects the fact that his company helped develop the script. Daniel is an equally proficient divorce attorney who relies on Irish charm and dirty-pool tactics to win his cases. His sartorial accouterments change from rumpled to savvy depending on the image he wishes to convey that particular day.
Daniel beats Audrey badly when first their paths cross in court. But they seemingly get pitted against each other in case after case. Things come to a head when each represents opposite sides in a particularly vitriolic divorce between an airhead rock star and his mad-as-hell fashion-designer wife (Michael Sheen and Parker Posey in over-the-top performances). The major bone of contention is a castle in Ireland that each desperately covets.
In a probability stretcher, the two lawyers find themselves together in Ireland to seek depositions from the castle's staff. They get wildly drunk -- their second such drinking bout in the movie -- and wake up the following morning in bed, each wearing a wedding ring.
When the New York press gets wind of the nuptials, the lawyers put a brave face on their mistake by pretending to live together while still representing their battling clients. The only happy person appears to be Audrey's much-divorced mom (Frances Fisher), who still thinks marriage is wonderfully romantic.
Even this somewhat tortured plotting fails to convince one that anything could exist between these two other than professional animosity. Brosnan lets his face go all earnest and gooey-eyed when he wants to convey sincerity, while Moore furrows her brow when wishing to project a similar emotion. For comedy, director Peter Howitt relies on halfhearted slapstick as the script contains little of the sharp dialogue one might expect from a script written at least in part by Harling ("Steel Magnolias", "Soapdish").
The smaller roles are more entertaining, with Fisher having glorious fun with the age-conscious former beauty queen, while Sheen and Posey display real passion in their utter contempt for each other.
Howitt's technical crew lends solid though unspectacular support.
LAWS OF ATTRACTION
New Line Cinema
New Line and Mobius Pictures in association with Stratus Film Co., Intermedia, MHF Zweite Academy Film and Initial Entertainment Group presents a Deep River/Irish Dreamtime production
Credits:
Director: Peter Howitt
Screenwriters: Aline Brosh McKenna, Robert Harling
Story: Aline Brosh McKenna
Producers: David T. Friendly, Marc Turtletaub, Beau St. Clair, Julie Durk, David Bergstein
Executive producers: Pierce Brosnan, Basil Iwanyk, Bob Yari, Mark Gordon, Mark Gill, Arthur Lappin, Elie Samaha, Toby Emmerich, Guy Stodel, Oliver Hengst
Director of photography: Adrian Biddle
Production designer: Charles J.H. Wood
Music: Edward Shearmur
Costume designer: Joan Bergin
Editor: Tony Lawson
Cast:
Daniel Rafferty: Pierce Brosnan
Audrey Woods: Julianne Moore
Thorne Jamison: Michael Sheen
Serena: Parker Posey
Sara Miller: Frances Fisher
Judge Abramovitz: Nora Dunn
Leslie: Heather Ann Nurnberg
Running time -- 90 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
April 30
"Laws of Attraction" is no "Adam's Rib". The key problem to this romantic comedy about husband-and-wife lawyers on opposite sides of a court battle is that one is never convinced that Pierce Brosnan's Daniel Rafferty and Julianne Moore's Audrey Woods are really a couple. There is not one reason for them even to like each other. The only chemistry that takes place between the actors is the combustible kind, and the screenplay goes to great lengths to cast each in the worst possible light, both professionally and personally.
This comedy about the attraction of opposites is aimed at older audiences, especially women. But the film lacks the sophistication or smarts to draw such an audience in sufficient numbers to ensure above-average boxoffice. The film should do better on television and DVD/video.
Moore is certainly one of our better screen actresses, but she understandably struggles to get a purchase on this unevenly written role. Audrey is supposedly a top New York divorce lawyer in a high-powered law firm. Yet Aline Brosh McKenna and Robert Harling's screenplay insists that she would stoop to following a rival attorney into the men's room or get so flustered when she finds herself alone in his office that she knocks over objects, sets off alarms and gets caught on security cameras fleeing the disaster.
Brosnan's role is better suited to the actor's talents, which no doubt reflects the fact that his company helped develop the script. Daniel is an equally proficient divorce attorney who relies on Irish charm and dirty-pool tactics to win his cases. His sartorial accouterments change from rumpled to savvy depending on the image he wishes to convey that particular day.
Daniel beats Audrey badly when first their paths cross in court. But they seemingly get pitted against each other in case after case. Things come to a head when each represents opposite sides in a particularly vitriolic divorce between an airhead rock star and his mad-as-hell fashion-designer wife (Michael Sheen and Parker Posey in over-the-top performances). The major bone of contention is a castle in Ireland that each desperately covets.
In a probability stretcher, the two lawyers find themselves together in Ireland to seek depositions from the castle's staff. They get wildly drunk -- their second such drinking bout in the movie -- and wake up the following morning in bed, each wearing a wedding ring.
When the New York press gets wind of the nuptials, the lawyers put a brave face on their mistake by pretending to live together while still representing their battling clients. The only happy person appears to be Audrey's much-divorced mom (Frances Fisher), who still thinks marriage is wonderfully romantic.
Even this somewhat tortured plotting fails to convince one that anything could exist between these two other than professional animosity. Brosnan lets his face go all earnest and gooey-eyed when he wants to convey sincerity, while Moore furrows her brow when wishing to project a similar emotion. For comedy, director Peter Howitt relies on halfhearted slapstick as the script contains little of the sharp dialogue one might expect from a script written at least in part by Harling ("Steel Magnolias", "Soapdish").
The smaller roles are more entertaining, with Fisher having glorious fun with the age-conscious former beauty queen, while Sheen and Posey display real passion in their utter contempt for each other.
Howitt's technical crew lends solid though unspectacular support.
LAWS OF ATTRACTION
New Line Cinema
New Line and Mobius Pictures in association with Stratus Film Co., Intermedia, MHF Zweite Academy Film and Initial Entertainment Group presents a Deep River/Irish Dreamtime production
Credits:
Director: Peter Howitt
Screenwriters: Aline Brosh McKenna, Robert Harling
Story: Aline Brosh McKenna
Producers: David T. Friendly, Marc Turtletaub, Beau St. Clair, Julie Durk, David Bergstein
Executive producers: Pierce Brosnan, Basil Iwanyk, Bob Yari, Mark Gordon, Mark Gill, Arthur Lappin, Elie Samaha, Toby Emmerich, Guy Stodel, Oliver Hengst
Director of photography: Adrian Biddle
Production designer: Charles J.H. Wood
Music: Edward Shearmur
Costume designer: Joan Bergin
Editor: Tony Lawson
Cast:
Daniel Rafferty: Pierce Brosnan
Audrey Woods: Julianne Moore
Thorne Jamison: Michael Sheen
Serena: Parker Posey
Sara Miller: Frances Fisher
Judge Abramovitz: Nora Dunn
Leslie: Heather Ann Nurnberg
Running time -- 90 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
Opens
April 30
"Laws of Attraction" is no "Adam's Rib". The key problem to this romantic comedy about husband-and-wife lawyers on opposite sides of a court battle is that one is never convinced that Pierce Brosnan's Daniel Rafferty and Julianne Moore's Audrey Woods are really a couple. There is not one reason for them even to like each other. The only chemistry that takes place between the actors is the combustible kind, and the screenplay goes to great lengths to cast each in the worst possible light, both professionally and personally.
This comedy about the attraction of opposites is aimed at older audiences, especially women. But the film lacks the sophistication or smarts to draw such an audience in sufficient numbers to ensure above-average boxoffice. The film should do better on television and DVD/video.
Moore is certainly one of our better screen actresses, but she understandably struggles to get a purchase on this unevenly written role. Audrey is supposedly a top New York divorce lawyer in a high-powered law firm. Yet Aline Brosh McKenna and Robert Harling's screenplay insists that she would stoop to following a rival attorney into the men's room or get so flustered when she finds herself alone in his office that she knocks over objects, sets off alarms and gets caught on security cameras fleeing the disaster.
Brosnan's role is better suited to the actor's talents, which no doubt reflects the fact that his company helped develop the script. Daniel is an equally proficient divorce attorney who relies on Irish charm and dirty-pool tactics to win his cases. His sartorial accouterments change from rumpled to savvy depending on the image he wishes to convey that particular day.
Daniel beats Audrey badly when first their paths cross in court. But they seemingly get pitted against each other in case after case. Things come to a head when each represents opposite sides in a particularly vitriolic divorce between an airhead rock star and his mad-as-hell fashion-designer wife (Michael Sheen and Parker Posey in over-the-top performances). The major bone of contention is a castle in Ireland that each desperately covets.
In a probability stretcher, the two lawyers find themselves together in Ireland to seek depositions from the castle's staff. They get wildly drunk -- their second such drinking bout in the movie -- and wake up the following morning in bed, each wearing a wedding ring.
When the New York press gets wind of the nuptials, the lawyers put a brave face on their mistake by pretending to live together while still representing their battling clients. The only happy person appears to be Audrey's much-divorced mom (Frances Fisher), who still thinks marriage is wonderfully romantic.
Even this somewhat tortured plotting fails to convince one that anything could exist between these two other than professional animosity. Brosnan lets his face go all earnest and gooey-eyed when he wants to convey sincerity, while Moore furrows her brow when wishing to project a similar emotion. For comedy, director Peter Howitt relies on halfhearted slapstick as the script contains little of the sharp dialogue one might expect from a script written at least in part by Harling ("Steel Magnolias", "Soapdish").
The smaller roles are more entertaining, with Fisher having glorious fun with the age-conscious former beauty queen, while Sheen and Posey display real passion in their utter contempt for each other.
Howitt's technical crew lends solid though unspectacular support.
LAWS OF ATTRACTION
New Line Cinema
New Line and Mobius Pictures in association with Stratus Film Co., Intermedia, MHF Zweite Academy Film and Initial Entertainment Group presents a Deep River/Irish Dreamtime production
Credits:
Director: Peter Howitt
Screenwriters: Aline Brosh McKenna, Robert Harling
Story: Aline Brosh McKenna
Producers: David T. Friendly, Marc Turtletaub, Beau St. Clair, Julie Durk, David Bergstein
Executive producers: Pierce Brosnan, Basil Iwanyk, Bob Yari, Mark Gordon, Mark Gill, Arthur Lappin, Elie Samaha, Toby Emmerich, Guy Stodel, Oliver Hengst
Director of photography: Adrian Biddle
Production designer: Charles J.H. Wood
Music: Edward Shearmur
Costume designer: Joan Bergin
Editor: Tony Lawson
Cast:
Daniel Rafferty: Pierce Brosnan
Audrey Woods: Julianne Moore
Thorne Jamison: Michael Sheen
Serena: Parker Posey
Sara Miller: Frances Fisher
Judge Abramovitz: Nora Dunn
Leslie: Heather Ann Nurnberg
Running time -- 90 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
April 30
"Laws of Attraction" is no "Adam's Rib". The key problem to this romantic comedy about husband-and-wife lawyers on opposite sides of a court battle is that one is never convinced that Pierce Brosnan's Daniel Rafferty and Julianne Moore's Audrey Woods are really a couple. There is not one reason for them even to like each other. The only chemistry that takes place between the actors is the combustible kind, and the screenplay goes to great lengths to cast each in the worst possible light, both professionally and personally.
This comedy about the attraction of opposites is aimed at older audiences, especially women. But the film lacks the sophistication or smarts to draw such an audience in sufficient numbers to ensure above-average boxoffice. The film should do better on television and DVD/video.
Moore is certainly one of our better screen actresses, but she understandably struggles to get a purchase on this unevenly written role. Audrey is supposedly a top New York divorce lawyer in a high-powered law firm. Yet Aline Brosh McKenna and Robert Harling's screenplay insists that she would stoop to following a rival attorney into the men's room or get so flustered when she finds herself alone in his office that she knocks over objects, sets off alarms and gets caught on security cameras fleeing the disaster.
Brosnan's role is better suited to the actor's talents, which no doubt reflects the fact that his company helped develop the script. Daniel is an equally proficient divorce attorney who relies on Irish charm and dirty-pool tactics to win his cases. His sartorial accouterments change from rumpled to savvy depending on the image he wishes to convey that particular day.
Daniel beats Audrey badly when first their paths cross in court. But they seemingly get pitted against each other in case after case. Things come to a head when each represents opposite sides in a particularly vitriolic divorce between an airhead rock star and his mad-as-hell fashion-designer wife (Michael Sheen and Parker Posey in over-the-top performances). The major bone of contention is a castle in Ireland that each desperately covets.
In a probability stretcher, the two lawyers find themselves together in Ireland to seek depositions from the castle's staff. They get wildly drunk -- their second such drinking bout in the movie -- and wake up the following morning in bed, each wearing a wedding ring.
When the New York press gets wind of the nuptials, the lawyers put a brave face on their mistake by pretending to live together while still representing their battling clients. The only happy person appears to be Audrey's much-divorced mom (Frances Fisher), who still thinks marriage is wonderfully romantic.
Even this somewhat tortured plotting fails to convince one that anything could exist between these two other than professional animosity. Brosnan lets his face go all earnest and gooey-eyed when he wants to convey sincerity, while Moore furrows her brow when wishing to project a similar emotion. For comedy, director Peter Howitt relies on halfhearted slapstick as the script contains little of the sharp dialogue one might expect from a script written at least in part by Harling ("Steel Magnolias", "Soapdish").
The smaller roles are more entertaining, with Fisher having glorious fun with the age-conscious former beauty queen, while Sheen and Posey display real passion in their utter contempt for each other.
Howitt's technical crew lends solid though unspectacular support.
LAWS OF ATTRACTION
New Line Cinema
New Line and Mobius Pictures in association with Stratus Film Co., Intermedia, MHF Zweite Academy Film and Initial Entertainment Group presents a Deep River/Irish Dreamtime production
Credits:
Director: Peter Howitt
Screenwriters: Aline Brosh McKenna, Robert Harling
Story: Aline Brosh McKenna
Producers: David T. Friendly, Marc Turtletaub, Beau St. Clair, Julie Durk, David Bergstein
Executive producers: Pierce Brosnan, Basil Iwanyk, Bob Yari, Mark Gordon, Mark Gill, Arthur Lappin, Elie Samaha, Toby Emmerich, Guy Stodel, Oliver Hengst
Director of photography: Adrian Biddle
Production designer: Charles J.H. Wood
Music: Edward Shearmur
Costume designer: Joan Bergin
Editor: Tony Lawson
Cast:
Daniel Rafferty: Pierce Brosnan
Audrey Woods: Julianne Moore
Thorne Jamison: Michael Sheen
Serena: Parker Posey
Sara Miller: Frances Fisher
Judge Abramovitz: Nora Dunn
Leslie: Heather Ann Nurnberg
Running time -- 90 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
- 4/21/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
John Schultz, who directed the basketball comedy "Like Mike", will direct Paramount Pictures/Deep River Prods.' feature film "The Honeymooners", based on the classic Jackie Gleason 1950s CBS television series. Cedric the Entertainer and Mike Epps topline the project in the Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton roles, respectively. The start date has not yet been determined, but producers hope to go into production in the fall. Danny Jacobson wrote the script to "Honeymooners", which is being produced by Deep River's David Friendly, Marc Turteltaub and Julie Durk as well as Cedric the Entertainer's manager, Eric Rhone of Visions Management Group. Hal Ross is executive producing. Saladin Patterson, who wrote Paramount's upcoming feature "The Fighting Temptations", is rewriting the material with a new draft due in next week. "It's one of those things where the comedic value is obvious, and the timing in Cedric's career could not be better," Rhone said. Schultz, repped by CAA, continues to be attached to direct Paramount Pictures/Nickelodeon Films' "Where's Waldo?" (HR 10/31).
New Line Cinema has acquired U.S. rights to the Intermedia/Stratus Films production Laws of Attraction in a negative pickup. A romantic comedy starring Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore as New York divorce lawyers who face off against each other inside of court and out, Laws is being directed by Peter Howitt and will start shooting June 16 from a script penned by Aline Brosh McKenna, Karey Kirkpatrick and Robert Harling, with a recent polish by Howitt. Deep River Prods.' David Friendly, who originated the idea for the project, will produce with his partner Marc Turtletaub along with Beau St. Clair, Brosnan's producing partner in their Irish DreamTime, and Julie Durk. Moritz Borman, Basil Iwanyk, Mark Gordon, Bob Yar, Mark Gill and Arthur Lappin are executive producing. New Line executives Mark Ordesky and Guy Stodel are overseeing for the studio. CAA, which represents Brosnan and Moore, was instrumental in putting the project together.
In Warner Bros.' big holiday release, info-age kismet and populist sentimentality are reworked for the bustling 1990s by urban fable-maker Nora Ephron, inspired by Ernst Lubitsch's 1940 classic "The Shop Around the Corner" and reunited with leads Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. All three hit it big with 1993's "Sleepless in Seattle", but the chemistry is not quite as winning in "You've Got Mail".
A sizable audience will log on initially, but this predictable mainstream romancer may not generate enough word-of-mouth to become a major domestic hit. Otherwise, overseas and ancillary prospects are bully.
While centering on e-mail users with nameless online confidants taps into the current Zeitgeist of growing computer dependency, the scenario by sisters Nora and frequent collaborator Delia Ephron promisingly takes on current issues of books and reading, capitalism and selling out, intimacy and isolation.
But starting with exaggerated depictions of the story's rival bookstores -- and the Big Apple cultures they represent -- Ephron and crew don't probe very deeply. Jokes about cybersex and florid language inspired by anticipating those three magical words -- America Online's audio greeting "You've got mail" -- are to be expected, but the cutesy opening showing the leads' obsessive passion for e-mail sets the overall PG-rated tone.
Kathleen Kelly (Ryan) owns and operates a neighborhood children's book store, started decades earlier by her mother and still popular with locals for its folksy atmosphere. Enter Joe Fox (Hanks), young mogul of a national chain of bookstores, who opens a competition-swallowing behemoth and intends to put her out of business.
Stretching credibility to pull off the oft-used social/professional conflict standing in the way of would-be lovers, the story line has Kathleen and Joe Cross paths many times as rival business owners. He's a jerk, and she tells him off but regrets it. Unbeknownst to both at first, they have already anonymously bonded as e-mail pals.
And they continue to modem each other insights, dreams and coy affections. Without getting specific, she even asks the sensitive digital Joe how to handle Joe the rich dope. But when they decide to meet in the flesh, he discovers their mutual real-world animosity and stops short of revealing himself. As the film scrolls along, he modifies his approach to win her over, while she never seems to suspect that Joe in the suit is one in the same as her e-buddy.
Both leads are involved with self-obsessed lovers who conveniently drift away. Joe is marking time with high-strung book editor Patricia Parker Posey), while Kathleen cohabitates with an eager, pleased-with-himself journalist (Greg Kinnear). Jean Stapleton, Dave Chappelle, Steve Zahn and Dabney Coleman round out the cast of serviceable supporting players.
YOU'VE GOT MAIL
Warner Bros.
A Lauren Shuler Donner production
A Nora Ephron film
Director: Nora Ephron
Producers: Lauren Shuler Donner, Nora Ephron
Screenwriters: Nora Ephron, Delia Ephron
Executive producers: Delia Ephron, Julie Durk, G. Mac Brown
Director of photography: John Lindley
Production designer: Dan Davis
Editor: Richard Marks
Music: George Fenton
Costume designer: Albert Wolsky
Casting: Francine Maisler
Color/stereo
Cast:
Joe: Tom Hanks
Kathleen: Meg Ryan
Patricia: Parker Posey
Birdie: Jean Stapleton
Kevin: Dave Chappelle
George: Steve Zahn
Nelson: Dabney Coleman
Frank: Greg Kinnear
Running time -- 120 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
A sizable audience will log on initially, but this predictable mainstream romancer may not generate enough word-of-mouth to become a major domestic hit. Otherwise, overseas and ancillary prospects are bully.
While centering on e-mail users with nameless online confidants taps into the current Zeitgeist of growing computer dependency, the scenario by sisters Nora and frequent collaborator Delia Ephron promisingly takes on current issues of books and reading, capitalism and selling out, intimacy and isolation.
But starting with exaggerated depictions of the story's rival bookstores -- and the Big Apple cultures they represent -- Ephron and crew don't probe very deeply. Jokes about cybersex and florid language inspired by anticipating those three magical words -- America Online's audio greeting "You've got mail" -- are to be expected, but the cutesy opening showing the leads' obsessive passion for e-mail sets the overall PG-rated tone.
Kathleen Kelly (Ryan) owns and operates a neighborhood children's book store, started decades earlier by her mother and still popular with locals for its folksy atmosphere. Enter Joe Fox (Hanks), young mogul of a national chain of bookstores, who opens a competition-swallowing behemoth and intends to put her out of business.
Stretching credibility to pull off the oft-used social/professional conflict standing in the way of would-be lovers, the story line has Kathleen and Joe Cross paths many times as rival business owners. He's a jerk, and she tells him off but regrets it. Unbeknownst to both at first, they have already anonymously bonded as e-mail pals.
And they continue to modem each other insights, dreams and coy affections. Without getting specific, she even asks the sensitive digital Joe how to handle Joe the rich dope. But when they decide to meet in the flesh, he discovers their mutual real-world animosity and stops short of revealing himself. As the film scrolls along, he modifies his approach to win her over, while she never seems to suspect that Joe in the suit is one in the same as her e-buddy.
Both leads are involved with self-obsessed lovers who conveniently drift away. Joe is marking time with high-strung book editor Patricia Parker Posey), while Kathleen cohabitates with an eager, pleased-with-himself journalist (Greg Kinnear). Jean Stapleton, Dave Chappelle, Steve Zahn and Dabney Coleman round out the cast of serviceable supporting players.
YOU'VE GOT MAIL
Warner Bros.
A Lauren Shuler Donner production
A Nora Ephron film
Director: Nora Ephron
Producers: Lauren Shuler Donner, Nora Ephron
Screenwriters: Nora Ephron, Delia Ephron
Executive producers: Delia Ephron, Julie Durk, G. Mac Brown
Director of photography: John Lindley
Production designer: Dan Davis
Editor: Richard Marks
Music: George Fenton
Costume designer: Albert Wolsky
Casting: Francine Maisler
Color/stereo
Cast:
Joe: Tom Hanks
Kathleen: Meg Ryan
Patricia: Parker Posey
Birdie: Jean Stapleton
Kevin: Dave Chappelle
George: Steve Zahn
Nelson: Dabney Coleman
Frank: Greg Kinnear
Running time -- 120 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
- 12/14/1998
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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